[Letter] 1904 October 6, New York City, [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / John M. Scott. 1904.

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[Letter] 1904 October 6, New York City, [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / John M. Scott. 1904.

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Sends him a copy of his book "Kindly Light"; will change the title of his next book from "IN Prayer and Praise" to "A Little Book of Yearning"; got good reviews from John White Chadwick, Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Nathaniel Schmidt, Theodore Seward and Frances Wilard; has read it to Miss Wilard when she was very ill.

2 p. on 2 leaves ; 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 ...

Scott, John Milton.

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