[Letter] 1916 October 19, Staten Island, NY [to] To the Director of Special Events and the Other Exposition Officials, [California] / Edwin Markham. 1916.

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[Letter] 1916 October 19, Staten Island, NY [to] To the Director of Special Events and the Other Exposition Officials, [California] / Edwin Markham. 1916.

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Markham writes the director of the special events and the other exposition officals and thanks them for the honor on appointing him an Edwin Markham day in the program of their International Exposition. He discusses California and printing a volume "California the Wonderful."

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 ...

The director of Special Events and The Other Officals,

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