[Letter] 1916, November 27, Saratoga Springs, New York [to] Mr. Edwin Markham, Staten Island / Willis Bruce Dowd. 1916.

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[Letter] 1916, November 27, Saratoga Springs, New York [to] Mr. Edwin Markham, Staten Island / Willis Bruce Dowd. 1916.

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Asks Markham for a letter telling him habits borrowed from ancestors or aquired which enabled leading men in arts and industries to live long and succesfully.

2 p. on 1 leaf ; 21-28 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 ...

Dowd, Willis Bruce, 1861-1918

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