[Letter] 1932 April 21,New York City [to] Mr. [Edwin Markham], dear Chief, [Staten Island] / Nonie [Mackay]. 1932.

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[Letter] 1932 April 21,New York City [to] Mr. [Edwin Markham], dear Chief, [Staten Island] / Nonie [Mackay]. 1932.

Sends Markham birthday greatings; goes on to say that all are going through trying times and that she needs his council and influence; wants him to come and take his belongings or give her permission to dispose of it as she sees fit; wants an autogrphed book of his latest verses.

4 p. on 2 leaves ; 22 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7549354

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 ...

Mackay Nonie Leonora.

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