Letter, 1903 September 30, Terre Haute, Indiana [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Eugene V. Debs. 1903.

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Letter, 1903 September 30, Terre Haute, Indiana [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Eugene V. Debs. 1903.

Acknowledges receipt of his notes in reference to Max Ehrmann; regrets that Markham will not write an introduction for him and even asks for pay which Debs feels should be done free for a fellow writer.

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Wagner College, Horrmann Library

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