[Letter] 1912 January 7, Staten Island [to] Mr. [Frederick Townsend] Martin, [New York / Edwin Markham], unfinished. 1912.

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[Letter] 1912 January 7, Staten Island [to] Mr. [Frederick Townsend] Martin, [New York / Edwin Markham], unfinished. 1912.

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Thanks him for sending him the inscribed copy of his "The Passing of the Idle Rich"; Markham describes it as a useful and convincing book with a wide-riching influence for good.

1 p. ; 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 ...

Martin, Frederick Townsend, 1849-1914

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