[Letter] 1931 November 30, Boston, Massachuesetts [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Earl Marlatt. 1931.

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[Letter] 1931 November 30, Boston, Massachuesetts [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Earl Marlatt. 1931.

Asks him to sign the poems and write something on the back of them- return postage provided; says he knowns it's a burden but he wants to present him as "The Robert Browning of Modern Poetry."

1 p. on 1 leaf ; 28 cm.

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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 ...

Marlatt, Earl, 1892-1976

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