[Letter] 1899 September 29, Philadelphia, [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Geo. H. Lorimer. 1899.

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 ...

Saturday Evening Post.

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Lorimer, George Horace, 1868-1937

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Editor of the Saturday Evening Post. From the description of Correspondence, 1921. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36272489 Lorimer became editor-in-chief of the SATURDAY EVENING POST in 1899, and held offices in Curtis Publishing Company which published the POST. He lived in Wyncote, Pa. His work as an editor brought him into a long association with author Booth Tarkington. From the description of Papers, 1912-1936. (Indiana Historical Society Lib...