Letter 1921, September 6, Staten Island, N.Y. [to] Sara Teasdale, Unknown / Edwin Markham. 1921.

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Letter 1921, September 6, Staten Island, N.Y. [to] Sara Teasdale, Unknown / Edwin Markham. 1921.

Markham recieved a copy of "Flame and Shadow" that Sara has written. He loves her writting and tells her this in a very loving and poetic way. He askes her to remember him and Mrs. M to her husband Ernst.

1 p. 1 leaf ; 26 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7551366

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 ...

Teasdale, Sara, 1884-1933

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Sarah Teasdale, an American poet, was born in 1884 in Saint Louis, Missouri to John W. Teasdale and Mary E. Willard. She was tutored at home and then graduated from a local private school in 1903. In 1905 she visited Europe and in 1907 she published her first collection of poems. In 1911, the publication of "Helen of Troy" introduced her to Louis Untermeyer, who, with his wife Jean, was to become a lifelong friend. On December 19, 1914, she married Ernst B. Filsinger. They divorced fifteen years...