Letter, 1927, May 25, New Yorl City [to] Mr. Edwin Markham, Dear Friend and Brother, Staten Island, New York / Robert E. Ely. 1927.

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Letter, 1927, May 25, New Yorl City [to] Mr. Edwin Markham, Dear Friend and Brother, Staten Island, New York / Robert E. Ely. 1927.

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Tells Markham how much his 75th birthday ment to his friends. Wants him to talk in the Town Hall next season and go on holiday with his family in the country.

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 ...

Ely, Rpbert Erskine, b. 1861.

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