[Letter] 1929 March 4, Denvor, Colorado [to] Mrs. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Lilian White Spencer. 1929.

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[Letter] 1929 March 4, Denvor, Colorado [to] Mrs. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Lilian White Spencer. 1929.

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Thanks for being honored by the Poetry Society; says she did not write poetry until after her father's death and does her work now at his desk; discusses verses from the bible about the Wise Men; tells that Dodd Mead asks bermisssion to use scenes from her "York" pageant for a book entitled "Pageants of the Nation."

2 p. on 1 leaf ; 22 cm.

Wagner College, Horrmann Library

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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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Lilian White Spencer was a playwright and poet who lived in Denver, Colo. as a child and again from 1918-1944. Spencer wrote plays, reviews of plays, script revisions, poetry and also translated French literature. She was best known in Denver for pageant writing. She wrote The Pageant of Colorado, an epic drama, which was performed May 1927 with a cast of 1,500 as part of a celebration commemorating the opening of the Moffatt Tunnel. The collection includes pen and ink drawings by Dean Babcock u...