Letter 1923 December 5, Staten Island, N.Y. [to] Harrison S. Morris, [Philadelphia, Pa.] / Harriosn S. Morris. 1923.

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Letter 1923 December 5, Staten Island, N.Y. [to] Harrison S. Morris, [Philadelphia, Pa.] / Harriosn S. Morris. 1923.

Markham has returned from traveling again to a lot of letters waiting to be answered. He has readed Harrison's telling him that he has read Markham's articles on the sex decadence and missing his comments on Walt Whitman's. Markham will compare Whitman's statements of Leaves of Grass and his other stories.

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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 ...

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892

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Walt Whitman (1819-1892), poet and author. From the description of Walt Whitman collection, 1842-1949. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702172830 Poet, journalist, essayist. From the description of Letter, 1863 July 27-1863 Sept. 9. (New York University). WorldCat record id: 477038304 American author. From the description of Letter to Mary E. Van Nostrand, 1890 November 28. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 49377819 America...

Morris, Harrison S. (Harrison Smith), 1856-1948

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Harrison Smith Morris was born in Philadelphia on October 4, 1856, the son of George Washington and Catharine (Harris) Morris. He had two younger sisters, Matilda Harris Morris and Jane Walters Morris, who never married. At the age of sixteen he went to work for the Reading Coal & Iron Company to help support his parents, who were in ill health. In 1893 he became the managing director of the Philadelphia Academy of the Fine Arts, a position which he held until 1905. Morris also ...