Letter 1900-1910, Sept 18, Oakland, Calif [to] Edwin Markham, [New York]. / Anna Catherine Markham. 1900-1910.

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Letter 1900-1910, Sept 18, Oakland, Calif [to] Edwin Markham, [New York]. / Anna Catherine Markham. 1900-1910.

She is tired from the baby. She is waiting to hear from Edwin when to start packing. Found and sent Shelley poems. She is not an expert in typing as he can see. She has no time and the baby cuts into it. Unsigned.

1 p. 1 leaf ; 26 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7554401

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 ...

Markham, Anna Catherine, 1859-1938

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Wife of Edwin Markham and secretary of the Poetry Society of America. From the description of Letter, 1927 April 18, Staten Island, N.Y., to Perry Walton, Boston. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 184905008 ...

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822

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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), poet, was born at Field Place, Warnham, on 4 August 1792, and attended the Sion House academy at Brentford, and then Eton. He entered University College, Oxford, in 1810, but was sent down the following year after writing the pamphlet The necessity of atheism . He eloped to Scotland with Harriet Westbrook, whom he married in Edinburgh in 1811. Shelley spent 1812 in Ireland, addressing meetings and writing pamphlets. In 1814 he left his wife and fled to the conti...