Letter 1917, April 23, New York City to Mrs. Edwin Markham, [Staten Island] / Mary D. Fick. 1917.

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 ...

Markham, Anna Catherine, 1859-1938

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Wife of Edwin Markham and secretary of the Poetry Society of America. From the description of Letter, 1927 April 18, Staten Island, N.Y., to Perry Walton, Boston. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 184905008 ...

Bronx Society of Arts and Sciences

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William C. Woolfson and Frank Wuttge, Jr. were instrumental in reviving the Bronx Society of Arts and Sciences under its new name, Bronx Society of Science and Letters. Woolfson also founded the Bronx Council on the Arts, served in other public organizations, and taught at various high schools and colleges in the New York City area, including John Jay College and Bronx Community College. From the description of Bronx Society of Science and Letters and the William C. Woolfson collecti...

Fick, Mary D.

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