Letter, 1915, March 17, Mohegan Lake, New York [to] Mr. Edwin Markham, Staten Island, New York / H.G. Hawn. 1915.

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Letter, 1915, March 17, Mohegan Lake, New York [to] Mr. Edwin Markham, Staten Island, New York / H.G. Hawn. 1915.

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Tells Markham that his term as president of the "Pleiades Club" and that he wants to go out in a blaze of glory. Therefore he asks Markham to please write him a poem for the magazine "Pleiad."

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 ...

Hawn, Henry Gaines, 1862-

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