Letter, 1902 March 4, New York City [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Robert Mackay. 1902.

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Letter, 1902 March 4, New York City [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Robert Mackay. 1902.

Apologizes for not coming last Sunday, but the rain prevented him, will come instead next Sunday; received his poem and will make the requested changes.

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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 ...