Letter, 1897 March 8, Tompkins School, [Oakland, California] [to] Mr. Nye / C.E. [Charles Edwin] Markham. 1896.

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Letter, 1897 March 8, Tompkins School, [Oakland, California] [to] Mr. Nye / C.E. [Charles Edwin] Markham. 1896.

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Markham apologizes for taking so long to prepard a review of a book for "next Monday's Enquirer." He also asks Mr. Nye if he likes his poem, "A Look into the Gulf," which had appeared in Scribner's [Magazine]. The verso is Mr. Nye's reply in which he states that he likes it so much that he is copying it into the Enquirer "to-day."

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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 ...

Nye, A. B.

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