Telegram 1918 June 26, St George, SI, NY. [to] Secretary Baker, Washington, D.C. War Depart. / Edwin Markham. 1918.

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Telegram 1918 June 26, St George, SI, NY. [to] Secretary Baker, Washington, D.C. War Depart. / Edwin Markham. 1918.

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Markham sends Secretary Baker a telegram explaining to leave our youth in the schools and industries till they are 21. He feels that they would better able to ideal with war then.

1 p. 1 leaf ; 26 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 ...

Secretary Baker of the War Department,

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