Letter, 1908 September 14, San Francisco [to] Mr. Edwin Markham, Westerleigh, West New Brighton, [Staten Island] New York / Benjamin Fay Mills. 1908.

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Letter, 1908 September 14, San Francisco [to] Mr. Edwin Markham, Westerleigh, West New Brighton, [Staten Island] New York / Benjamin Fay Mills. 1908.

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Mills sends a circular and the September issue of the "Fellowship: and asks if Markham will become an honorary vice-president and contribute poems.

2 p. ; 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 ...

Mills, Benjamin Fay, 1857-1916

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