[Letter] 1936 April 15, Boston, Massachusetts [to] Mr. [Edwin Markham] Dear Poet, [Staten Island] / William [L. Stidger]. 1936.

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[Letter] 1936 April 15, Boston, Massachusetts [to] Mr. [Edwin Markham] Dear Poet, [Staten Island] / William [L. Stidger]. 1936.

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Will be in town next week Tuesday at the Commodore Hotel and is wondering if he could come and visit him there; wants to talk about the poem President Roosevelt wants and the speech for the Democratic Convention; Markham wrote personal note at bottom of letter trying to see if he is free to have lunch with Stigner.

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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 ...

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 ...