[Letter] 1922 Septemaber 21, Ditroit, Michigan [to] Mr. Edwin Markham, [Staten Island] / William. L. Stidger. 1922.

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[Letter] 1922 Septemaber 21, Ditroit, Michigan [to] Mr. Edwin Markham, [Staten Island] / William. L. Stidger. 1922.

Wants Markham to come for a weekend and prommisses that he will have a traveling profit of at least $ 100; wants him to speak at the YMCA and wants to sell that weekend about one thousand of his books; wants him to meet Henry Ford.

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Wagner College, Horrmann Library

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