Letter, 1893 September 14, Tompkins School, Oakland, [California] / C.E. [Charles Edwin] Markham. 1893.

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Letter, 1893 September 14, Tompkins School, Oakland, [California] / C.E. [Charles Edwin] Markham. 1893.

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Letter to unnamed friend in response to a long letter. Markham indicates that he will send a longer response the following Saturday.

1 p. ; 10 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 ...