Letter, 1895 June 17, Oakland, California to Director Webb N. Pearce, Chairman Com. School Houses and Sites [Oakland, California] / C.E. [Charles Edwin] Markham. 1895.

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Letter, 1895 June 17, Oakland, California to Director Webb N. Pearce, Chairman Com. School Houses and Sites [Oakland, California] / C.E. [Charles Edwin] Markham. 1895.

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Requests repairs be make at Tompkins School. Written on the letterhead of the Office of the City Superintendent of Schools, Oakland, Cal.

1 p. ; 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 ...

Pearce, Webb N.,

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