Letter 1923 May 2, Staten Island, N.Y. [to] Flora and George Seymour, Chicago, Ill / Edwin Markham. 1923.

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Letter 1923 May 2, Staten Island, N.Y. [to] Flora and George Seymour, Chicago, Ill / Edwin Markham. 1923.

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Edwin didn't go to Oregon. He sent the J.K. Gill company quatrain for the bronze plated rivites for over the mantle of the big chimmey in the Poet's Corner. Edwin calls it Two at a Fireside, he writes out the inscription. Then he writes a song called Oregon. He wrote this because of their remembrance of his birthday.

1 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 ...

Seymour, Flora and George, 1859-1945,

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