Letter, 1917, September 18, New York City [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Marry W. Laidler. 1917.

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Letter, 1917, September 18, New York City [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Marry W. Laidler. 1917.

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Invites Markham to the autums conference of the Intercolegiate Socialist Society, which will have the subject "Political and Social Readjustments during and after the War." Sends him the itinerary for the conferance with locations and possible lodgings.

3 p. on 2 leaves ; 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 ...

Intercollegiate Socialist Society (U.S.)

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The Intercollegiate Socialist Society (ISS), an on-campus student and faculty organization, was established by a group of prominent socialists in New York in 1905. Among the founding members of the ISS were James Graham Phelps Stokes, jCharlotte Perkins Gilman, William English Walling, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, leonard and Oscar Lovell Triggs. The ISS established numerous study and reading groups, sponsored rallies and lecture engagements for prominent socialists, published book lists and phmp...