Letter, 1899 October 10, W.P. Ry, near Denver [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island, New York] / Benjamin Fay Mills. 1899.

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Letter, 1899 October 10, W.P. Ry, near Denver [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island, New York] / Benjamin Fay Mills. 1899.

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Mills is sorry he didn't see Markham in Boston. He is planning to spend a year in retirement in the West and is headed for California. He also asks Markham to contact friends of his in Brooklyn.

6 p. on 3 leaves ; 25 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 ...

Mills, Benjamin Fay, 1857-1916

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