[Letter] 1930 March 20, Los Angeles, California, [to] Mr. Edwin [Markham], [Staten Island] / John Milton Scott. 1930.

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[Letter] 1930 March 20, Los Angeles, California, [to] Mr. Edwin [Markham], [Staten Island] / John Milton Scott. 1930.

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Talks about a song "Man-Making" which he fells should be hymned into churches; says Markham's "Panther" is not a happy song; wants him to write more songs and prose; sends him a copy of "The Captive Mocking Bird."

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 ...

Scott, John Milton.

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