Letter, 1900 January 28, Brooklyn, New York / Edwin Markham. 1900.

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Letter, 1900 January 28, Brooklyn, New York / Edwin Markham. 1900.

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States that in the current issue of the Overland, a Middlesex lecture by Emerson with the title "The Man with the Hoe" exists. Markham asks that a copy be sent along with a bill and a current catalog from an unnamed publisher. Lines of verse on verso of each page.

4 p. on 2 leaves ; 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 ...