Letter 1912, Feb. 23, Pittsburg, Pa. [to] [Mr. Edwin Markham], Staten Island, N.Y. / Bessie M. Womsley. 1912.

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Letter 1912, Feb. 23, Pittsburg, Pa. [to] [Mr. Edwin Markham], Staten Island, N.Y. / Bessie M. Womsley. 1912.

Bessie tells of an attack on Socialism. William A Prosser is being attacked by Raymond Robins on this issue. Robins is trying to set Protestants against socialism and E.W. Duff has set three main grounds. Bessie feels that the Prosser Book is what Markham is looking for. She disscuss payment.

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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 ...

Christian Socialist Fellowship.

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Duff, E. W.

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Prosser, William A.

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Womsley, Bessie.

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Robins, Raymond, 1873-1954

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