Letter, 1899 March 7, Tompkins School, Oakland, [California] [to] Mr. Joseph Leggett, San Francisco / Edwin Markham. 1899.

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Letter, 1899 March 7, Tompkins School, Oakland, [California] [to] Mr. Joseph Leggett, San Francisco / Edwin Markham. 1899.

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Markham thanks Leggett for his kind words "in the Star and elsewhere. He also state that he does not see the Single Tax as sufficient but appreciates his work on social problems.

3 p. ; 18 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 ...

Leggett, Joseph,

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