[Letter] 1931, Boston, Massachusetts [to] Mr. Edwin Markham, Dear Mister Poet and Prophet, [Staten Island] / Wm. L. Stidger. 1931.

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[Letter] 1931, Boston, Massachusetts [to] Mr. Edwin Markham, Dear Mister Poet and Prophet, [Staten Island] / Wm. L. Stidger. 1931.

Informs Markham that Earl Marlatt is President of the Browning Society; Earl wants to use one of Markhams's poem written about Robert Browning and asks if he would sign it and hand write a note below to state that he still means what he wrote twenty years ago; wants him to confirm the February date.

2 p. on 1 leaf ; 28 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7549865

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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Stidger, William L. (William Le Roy), 1886-

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Methodist-Episcopal clergyman and writer. Brown class of 1912. From the description of Letters to William Leroy Stidger, 1917-1949. (Brown University). WorldCat record id: 122691965 ...

Browning, Robert, 1812-1889

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