Letter 1920 February 21, Menlo Park, California, [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Melville Best Anderson. 1920.

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Letter 1920 February 21, Menlo Park, California, [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Melville Best Anderson. 1920.

Melville sends Markham a poem he has written about David Starr Jordon.

4 p. on 2 leaves ; 18-25 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7551745

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 ...

Anderson, Melville Best, 1851-1933

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American literary scholar, primarily of Dante. From the description of Melville Best Anderson papers, 1926-1930. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122552958 Head of English Dept. at Stanford University and Dante scholar. From the description of Melville Best Anderson letters to Franklin E. Perham and other papers, 1901-1928. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 215099758 Biography Me...

Jordon, David Starr, 1851-1931.

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