[Letter] 1917, August 11, Washington DC [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Elizabeth Willson. 1917.

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[Letter] 1917, August 11, Washington DC [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Elizabeth Willson. 1917.

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Would like to have "The Man With the Hoe" for which she had given him the money long ago. Likes his "France" poem which she recites often.

3 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 ...

Willson, Elizabeth.

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