Letter 1897, Oct 1,Berkeley, Calif[to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Oakland, Calif] / Anna Murphy. 1897.

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Letter 1897, Oct 1,Berkeley, Calif[to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Oakland, Calif] / Anna Murphy. 1897.

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Anna reminds Markham that Saturday evening he will be getting acquinted with some neighbors. She has been reading Paradise Lost. She would like him to come over. She asks for a picture of a little boy.

2 p. on 1 leaf ; 18-25 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 ...

Murphy, Anna

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