Letter, 1911 April 25, Newark, New Jersey [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Coningsby Dawson. 1911.

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Letter, 1911 April 25, Newark, New Jersey [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Coningsby Dawson. 1911.

Send him a small book of verses; thanks him for his kindness of yesterdays visit and appreciates meeting such an idalist person.

2 p. on 1 leaf ; 22 cm.

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Wagner College, Horrmann Library

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Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940

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California poet. Raised near Vacaville, became a schoolteacher in Coloma and later in Oakland. Became famous overnight with publication of "The Man with a Hoe," his protest against brutalization of labor, in "San Francisco Examiner" (January 15, 1899). Following this success Markham moved to New York where he scored another triumph with "Lincoln and Other Poems" (1901). He became a well-known reader of his own poems and lecturer of idealistic views, but his creative output for remainder of life ...

Dawson, Coningsby, 1883-1959

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