Letter, 1926, Aug. 15, San Jose, California [to] Mr. Edwin Markham, New York City. / Henry Mead Bland. 1926.

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Letter, 1926, Aug. 15, San Jose, California [to] Mr. Edwin Markham, New York City. / Henry Mead Bland. 1926.

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Henry is interested in Markham's Western visit. He is setting up appointments with the College of the Pacific, College of San Jose, The Pacific Union College in Napa County, and the Berkeley Teaching Force. Senator Phelan is securing a reading at the Bohemian Club of San Jose. He is setting up the Poetry Contest and Senator Phelan will award the prize. He discribes the contest. He continues about the Society called the Edwin Markham Chapter of the Poetry Society of London. He would like Edwin to write a response apropo for the occassion that will be read. Their will be literary guests, as Gertrude Atherton, Sterling, Charles Noble, Ruth Comfort Michell and others. He sent Edwin four orders for "Ballad of the Gallows-Bird". He compares his writing with the American Mercury andrefers to Dante and his Inferno and Paradiso slong with other writing of Markhams. He disccusses Ballads. He is sending a copy of "Reconcilation for Markham to refer to the Last One. Henry appeared in a High School Bell with a poem The Quest.

3 p. 2 leaves c 18-25 cm.

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