[Letter] 1910 September 30, Edge Moor, Delaware, [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, Dear Friend Markham, [Staten Island / Upton] Sinclair. 1910.

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[Letter] 1910 September 30, Edge Moor, Delaware, [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, Dear Friend Markham, [Staten Island / Upton] Sinclair. 1910.

Says Kelly's beg book "Government Etc." has to be read by itself. Wants his opinion; original envelop included.

1 p. on 1 leaf ; 28 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7552625

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 ...

Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968

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Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1878. Sinclair was an American author, novelist, journalist, and political activist who wrote many books in several genres. He is most well-known for his exposé, The Jungle regarding conditions in Chicago's meat packing plants, which influenced the passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906. Much of Sinclair's writing was related to the economic and social conditions of the early twentieth century. He was heavily in...