Letter 1921 August 8, Staten Island, N.Y. [to] Guy Fitch Phelps Unknown / [Edwin Markham]. 1921.

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Letter 1921 August 8, Staten Island, N.Y. [to] Guy Fitch Phelps Unknown / [Edwin Markham]. 1921.

Markham discusses the poem Guy sent him and critics it. He refers to Austin Dobson. He like his work on The Gipsy Trail. Letter is unsigned.

2 p. 1 leaf ; 26 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7550341

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 ...

Dobson, Austin, 1840-1921

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Dobson became known as a poet for his works "Proverbs in Porcelain" (1877) and "Collected Poems" (1897), in which he used the French forms, and as a biographer, for "Fanny Burney" and "Horace Walpole." From the description of Correspondence, 1902-1908. (Temple University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 122445124 Henry Austin Dobson, civil servant and poet, was born on 18 January 1840. After leaving school at the age of 16, he joined the Board of Trade where he remained until...