Letter,1906 April 6, Greenwich, Conn. [to] Mr. Edwin Markham, Staten Island, N.Y. / Helen C. Crane. 1906.

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Letter,1906 April 6, Greenwich, Conn. [to] Mr. Edwin Markham, Staten Island, N.Y. / Helen C. Crane. 1906.

Helen is going to a concert and is has asked Markham if she could put some of his poems to music and she will send him tickets in hopes he could attend and hear the songs.

2 p. on 1 leaf ; 25 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7593857

Wagner College, Horrmann Library

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Crane, Helen, 1868-1930

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Helen Crane, composer and pianist, was born in New York in 1868. While in New York, she studied with German composers Philip and Xaver Scharwenka, and later moved to Berlin (1906-1917). Her composition Elegy for violoncello and pianoforte, op. 57 (1919) received an award from the National Federation of Music Clubs in 1944. From the description of Helen Crane papers, ca. 1892-1944. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122534794 From the guide to the Helen Crane pape...

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 ...