Letter, 1899 July 18, Terre Haute, Indiana [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Eugene V. Debs. 1899.

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Letter, 1899 July 18, Terre Haute, Indiana [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Eugene V. Debs. 1899.

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Thanks Markham for his letter and expresses appreciation for "The Man With the Hoe" and says that it keeps growing on him with each day.

1 p. ; 28 cm.

Wagner College, Horrmann Library

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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 ...

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