[Letter] 1917, June 9, Boston, Massachusetts [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Harold Marshall. 1917.

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[Letter] 1917, June 9, Boston, Massachusetts [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Harold Marshall. 1917.

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Is pressed by the local Women's club to have him speak on the afternoon of February 23rd and promisses to make it worth his while.

1 p. on 1 leaf ; 21-28 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 ...

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