Letter, 1938, October 21, Eagle Rock, California [to] Edwin Markham [Staten Island, New York] / Bailey Millard. 1936.

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Letter, 1938, October 21, Eagle Rock, California [to] Edwin Markham [Staten Island, New York] / Bailey Millard. 1936.

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Reports that he is in excellent health and is still working and driving to work at age 77. He states that he attends church on Sunday listening to the most liberal preachers, "wasting little time on the orthodox retailers of Jewish myths and fairy tales."

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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 ...

Millard, Bailey, 1859-1941

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Bailey Millard (1859-1941) was born in Markesan, Wisconsin. Much of his education was obtained as a printer's devil and tramp printer. He worked his way west through a succession of newspaper and printing shops. In the 1890s he was city editor or literary editor of the San Francisco Call and the Examiner, and in 1918-1919 was managing editor of the San Francisco Evening Bulletin . From 1913-1914 he was managing editor of Munsey's of NY. In San Francisco he was acquainted with and published a suc...