[Letter] 1910 September 24, San Jose, California, [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Eugen T. Sawyer. 1910.

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[Letter] 1910 September 24, San Jose, California, [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Eugen T. Sawyer. 1910.

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Tells Markham that he is 72 years old and an admirer of Bierce; asks if he has any autographed letters from him he could have or if he knows of other friends of Bierce he could ask; reads all of Markhams writings.

4 p. on 1 leaf ; 22 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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Bierce, Ambrose, 1942-1914?

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