[Letter] 1916, August 4, Worchester, Massachusetts [to] Mr. [Edwin]Markham, [Staten Island] / Miss Clara E. Billings. 1916.

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[Letter] 1916, August 4, Worchester, Massachusetts [to] Mr. [Edwin]Markham, [Staten Island] / Miss Clara E. Billings. 1916.

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Asks Markham for his latest copy; reminisces about a gathering at the Lown Farm in Billerica (Mass.); wants some day to have him autograph his books "Shoes of Happiness" and "California the Wonderful."

4 p. on 1 leaf ; 14-21 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 ...

Billinings, Clara E.

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