[Letter] 1919 August 31, San Francisco, California [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / E.C.T. [Tompkins]. 1919.

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[Letter] 1919 August 31, San Francisco, California [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / E.C.T. [Tompkins]. 1919.

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Has not received the promissed book of verses and is waiting for it, because he thinks that he share his views; wants poets like Markham to stay arround for a long time since he does see not much good in the younger generation.

2 p. on 1 leaf ; 22 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 ...

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