[Letter] 1916, November 21, New York City [to] Mr. Edwin Markham, Staten Island, New York / Committee: Mrs. William Astor Chandler, Harrison Rhodes, Mrs. Marshall Field, James M. Beck, Charles Hanson Towne. 1916.

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[Letter] 1916, November 21, New York City [to] Mr. Edwin Markham, Staten Island, New York / Committee: Mrs. William Astor Chandler, Harrison Rhodes, Mrs. Marshall Field, James M. Beck, Charles Hanson Towne. 1916.

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Wants Markeham to help prepare a volume to be called "For France"for which President Roosevelt will write an introduction. Asks Markham to write something keeping it to three thousand words.

1 p. on 1 leaf ; 21-28 cm.

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 ...

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