[Letter] 1916 August 21, Staten Island [to] Memmbers of the Literary Society, New York City / [Edwin Markham]. 1916.

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[Letter] 1916 August 21, Staten Island [to] Memmbers of the Literary Society, New York City / [Edwin Markham]. 1916.

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Society will honor itself by honoring George Hamlin Fitch; Californians admire Fitch for his noble literature; finds him a very approchable men; just goes on and on praising this man; calls him the chief critic of the Far West.

2 p. on 2 leaves ; 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 ...

Fitch, George Hamlin, 1852-1915

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