Letter 1899, September 6, Oakland, Cailf. [to] Dear Heart [Edwin Markham], New York City / Signed A., [Anne Catherine Markham]. 1899.

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Letter 1899, September 6, Oakland, Cailf. [to] Dear Heart [Edwin Markham], New York City / Signed A., [Anne Catherine Markham]. 1899.

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Letter is address to Dear Heart. It is a lenghty letter. She can't wait to see him. She is having a problem with someone taking the house. She is still preparing to close up the house.(storage problems and someone coming to clean up the house with her). Closing the house at the end of the month. Discusses Bierce and a response by P. Garttand. Tells about the baby getting big, strong and beautiful. She is sending books out with Miss H.

6 p. 3 leaf ; 18-25 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 ...