[Letter] 1909 April 16, San Francisco, California, [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Herman Scheffauer. 1909.

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[Letter] 1909 April 16, San Francisco, California, [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Herman Scheffauer. 1909.

Sends him a criticizm of one of Markham's poems that he had given to Ethel Talbot; goes on to tell him about Ethel who is only 21 years old.

3 p. on 2 leaves ; 28 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7552067

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 ...

Scheffauer, Herman George, 1878-1927

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San Francisco writer and critic, translated into German several of Thomas Mann's stories, including Bashan and I, and Beatrix Potter poetry; the author of "Dynamic Architecture : New Forms of Architecture" published in Dial in March 1921; died in Germany under mysterious circumstances (he fell out of a window); married to Ethel Talbot Scheffauer, writer of "School Stories." From the description of Letter to Mr. O'Donnell, 1913 March 8. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 56...

Talbot, Ethel

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