[Letter] 1900-1910, New York City [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Robert Mackay. 1900-1910.

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[Letter] 1900-1910, New York City [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Robert Mackay. 1900-1910.

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Asks for his first teachers name, when he began to read poetry and many other questions; it seems a biography is being put together which can't be varified since the first page of the letter is missing.

1 p. on 2 leaves ; 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 ...