Letter,1900-1910 Mar. 1, New York City [to] Mr. Edwin Markham, Staten Island, N.Y. / Martha Foote Crow. 1900-1910.

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Letter,1900-1910 Mar. 1, New York City [to] Mr. Edwin Markham, Staten Island, N.Y. / Martha Foote Crow. 1900-1910.

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Martha enclosed an invitation and the committee is giving the gift of the highest honors. She hope he will accept and attend the luncheon. She would like Mrs M to know she found the poem and hopes to set it to music. Plesase answer Mrs. Winter's as soon as possible.

1 p. on 1 leaf ; 15 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 ...

Crow, Martha Foote, 1854-1924

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Martha Foote Crow, educator and writer, was born in 1854 in Sackets Harbor, New York, the daughter of the Reverend John B. and Mary Pendexter (Stilphen) Foote. She received a Ph.D. in 1885 from Syracuse University. In 1884 she married archaeologist John M. Crow, who died in 1891. Mrs. Crow served on the faculty of Ives Seminary, Waynesburg College, and Wellesley College, becoming principal of Grinnell College in 1884. In 1891 she became assistant professor of English lit...