Letter 1924 January 11, Staten Island, N.Y. [to] Lea Lessi, Unknown / [Edwin Markham]. 1924.

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Letter 1924 January 11, Staten Island, N.Y. [to] Lea Lessi, Unknown / [Edwin Markham]. 1924.

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Markham thanks Lea for her generosity of sending a fine box of oranges and grapeffruirts. He says that she saved them and that they were standing on the hunger line. Letter is unsigned.

1 p. 1 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 ...

Lessi, Lea,

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