Letter 1912 July 1, New York City [to] Anna Hempstead Branch, New York City / Edwin Markham. 1912.

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Letter 1912 July 1, New York City [to] Anna Hempstead Branch, New York City / Edwin Markham. 1912.

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Markham writes very poetically about anna and her mother returning from the seas. He continues that their is a loud sigh out of the heart of Babylon and a sigh of the editor of "The Lyric Year". A letter will reach Mitchell Kennerley the Editor. He has been reading Anna's poems, "The Shoes that Dance. He doesn't want to read them all at once. He wants to extend the pleasure "While Loveliness Goes By, The Wound, To Dust Returning is a Wonder, Ora Pro Nobels are all wonderful amd emotional.

1 p. l 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 ...

Branch, Anna Hempstead, 1875-1937

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American poet, of Brooklyn, N.Y. From the description of Anna Hempstead Branch letter to Edith A. Watson, 1891 Dec. (New London County Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 123945395 Branch was born on March 18, 1875 in New London, Conn. and lived in a house occupied by her grandmother's family since 1640 known as Hempstead House. She was educated at Smith College (1897) and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. While at the Academy she became acquainted with...

Kennerley, Mitchell, 1878-1950

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Mitchell Kennerley served as the publisher for "Wine of the Puritans," "John Addington Symonds" and "The World of H. G. Wells." From the description of Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1909-1915. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 181337904 Mitchell Kennerley (1878-1950) was an American publisher and art dealer. He worked for various literary magazines and published several others. From 1916 to 1929 and 1937 to 1939 he was president of the Anderson G...