[Letter] 19127 December 12, Kansas City, Missouri [to] Mr. [Edwin Markham] My dear Poet, [Staten Island] / Wm. L. Stidger. 1927.

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[Letter] 19127 December 12, Kansas City, Missouri [to] Mr. [Edwin Markham] My dear Poet, [Staten Island] / Wm. L. Stidger. 1927.

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Was disappointed that he could not reach him by phone when he came through NY after an engagement at Brown Univ.; is happy thet Roy Smith has been a good impresario; suggests to get in touch with Ms. Jessie Gillespie in reference to illustrating his book "The Gallows Bird."

1 p. on 1 leaf ; 28 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 ...

Gillespie, Jessie

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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 ...