[Letter] 1930 September 15, New York City [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / H.L. Mencken. 1930.

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[Letter] 1930 September 15, New York City [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / H.L. Mencken. 1930.

Thanks him for the book with his incription; says that "The MAn With the Hoe" is the best poem ever written in America;original envelope enclosed.

2 p. on 2 leaves ; 22 cm.

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Wagner College, Horrmann Library

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Mencken, H.L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956

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Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956), was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Mencken, known as the "Sage of Baltimore", is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the 20th century. Mencken worked as a reporter and drama critic for the Baltimore Morning Herald from 1899 to 1906. From 190...

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 ...