Letter 1919 December 31, Staten Island [to] Rose de Vaux Royer, Unknown / Edwin Markham. 1919.

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Letter 1919 December 31, Staten Island [to] Rose de Vaux Royer, Unknown / Edwin Markham. 1919.

Markham discussses the lose of her husband. He is also against the erection of a marble memory for her husband. He will have nothing to do with the "New Age". "Money is Life and should be used to benefit the living."Letter is unsigned.

1 p. 1 leaf ; 26 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7552698

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 ...

Royer, de Vaux Royer,

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