Letter 1910 March 11, Staten Island [to] August Lewis, Unknown / Edwin Markham. 1910.

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Letter 1910 March 11, Staten Island [to] August Lewis, Unknown / Edwin Markham. 1910.

Markham is pleased that the friends of Tom L. Johnson are to present him a testimonal expressing their gratitude for his social welfare. Markham writes the a message for the bronze medallion. He wrote it on suggestion of Louis f. Post.

1 p. 1 leaf ; 26 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7552839

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 ...

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George, Henry, 1839-1897

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