[Letter] 1915, July 30, San Francisco, California [to] Mr. [Edwin Markham], [Staten Island] / Virginia J. Kurt. 1915.

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[Letter] 1915, July 30, San Francisco, California [to] Mr. [Edwin Markham], [Staten Island] / Virginia J. Kurt. 1915.

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Thanks Markham for the copy of "Shoes of Happyness"; goes on to say that his friends are helping to awaken the world to his poems.

2 p. on 1 leaf ; 18-21 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 ...

Kurt, Virginia.

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