[Letter] 1924 June 12, Denvor, Colorado [to] Mrs. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Lilian White Spencer. 1924.

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[Letter] 1924 June 12, Denvor, Colorado [to] Mrs. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Lilian White Spencer. 1924.

Was in Colorado Springs by Magot Ritter and were she met Evelyn Newman; she is happy about her Apache-wife, Finale and the poetry society of america, talks about alot of things and memtions Thomas Hornsby Ferril.

3 p. on 2 leaves ; 22 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7550716

Wagner College, Horrmann Library

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Markham, Anna Catherine, 1859-1938

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Wife of Edwin Markham and secretary of the Poetry Society of America. From the description of Letter, 1927 April 18, Staten Island, N.Y., to Perry Walton, Boston. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 184905008 ...

Spencer, Lilian White, 1876-1953

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