[Letter] 1916 February 3, Staten Island, [to] [William Stanly] Braithwaite, [New York City] / Edwin Markham. 1916.

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[Letter] 1916 February 3, Staten Island, [to] [William Stanly] Braithwaite, [New York City] / Edwin Markham. 1916.

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Was away from home and upon returning his letter caught his eyes; congratulates him on his latest anthology; asks him if he is interested in an informal school for discussing poetry; asks him to come for a cup of tea and tells him that he owns the best private literary library in America.

1 p. on 1 leaf ; 26 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 ...

Braithwaite, William Stanley

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