Letter 1899, July 20, Oakland, Calif [to] Edwin Markham, [California] / Anna Catherine Markham. 1899.

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Letter 1899, July 20, Oakland, Calif [to] Edwin Markham, [California] / Anna Catherine Markham. 1899.

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Anna types Edwin her first letter. She asks his opinion. Nagasawa came o see her and he said that Edwin didn't reply to his invitation, she discusses this. Miss Crawford says Miss Cotton writes that you are sick of all the talk about Man with the Hoe. Mr. Pierce refuses to meet the summer boarders. There is the beganings of another letter from the Messrs James T. White & Co. telling Mrs Markham of a mistakes in the Markham biographical sketch. Letter is unsigned.

2 p. 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 ...

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 ...