Letter, 1891 May 19, Tompkins School, [Oakland, California] [to] Mr. Geo. Hodgkiss / C.E. [Charles Edwin] Markham. 1891.

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Letter, 1891 May 19, Tompkins School, [Oakland, California] [to] Mr. Geo. Hodgkiss / C.E. [Charles Edwin] Markham. 1891.

Mr. Hodgkiss's son broke his chair in school and Markham, as principal, requests that the family make good the damage done to the school.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7579621

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 ...

Hodgkiss, George,

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