[Letter] 1915, March 29, San Francisco, California [to] Mr. Edwin Markham, [Staten Island] / B.S. Steadwell. 1915.

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[Letter] 1915, March 29, San Francisco, California [to] Mr. Edwin Markham, [Staten Island] / B.S. Steadwell. 1915.

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Invites Markham to partake in the Ninth International Purity Congress and asks for two or three subjects he would be prepared to speak.

1 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 ...

World's Purity Federation.

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