Letter, 1900 January 31, Brooklyn, New York [to] Cheney, San Francisco / [Edwin Markham]. 1900.

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Letter, 1900 January 31, Brooklyn, New York [to] Cheney, San Francisco / [Edwin Markham]. 1900.

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Congratulates Cheney on winning the poem competition. A note on the side of the letter indicates that he was a librarian in San Francisco, California. Lines of verse on verso.

2 p. on 1 leaf ; 22 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 ...

Cheney,

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