[Letter] 1917, September 19, Chicago, Illinois [to] Mr. Edwin Markham, [Staten Island] / Marcella Burns. 1917.

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[Letter] 1917, September 19, Chicago, Illinois [to] Mr. Edwin Markham, [Staten Island] / Marcella Burns. 1917.

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Heard from Milton Pease, that he will be in Chicago this fall and asks him if he would please give a lecture while out there.

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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