[Letter] 1900 January 15, San Jose, California, [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Eugen t. Sawyer. 1900.

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[Letter] 1900 January 15, San Jose, California, [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Eugen t. Sawyer. 1900.

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Sends a letter of admiration; met poet E.E. Cathran; urges him to come and visit when he is in California.

2 p. on 1 leaf ; 28 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 ...

Sawyer, Eugen T., d. 1924.

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