[Letter] 1916 February 24, San Francisco, California [to] Mr. [Edwin Markham] My dear Father Poet, [Staten Island] / William. L. Stidger. 1916.

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[Letter] 1916 February 24, San Francisco, California [to] Mr. [Edwin Markham] My dear Father Poet, [Staten Island] / William. L. Stidger. 1916.

Sends Markham one of his Markham sermons on the Juggler of Touraine; mentions that spring is in the air, the birds returned to his beloved California.

1 p. on 1 leaf ; 18 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7549913

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 ...

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 ...