Letter,1900-1910,April 27, New York City [to] Mrs. Anna Catherine Markham, Staten Island, N.Y. / Martha Foote Crow. 1900-1910.

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Letter,1900-1910,April 27, New York City [to] Mrs. Anna Catherine Markham, Staten Island, N.Y. / Martha Foote Crow. 1900-1910.

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Martha discusses that there seems to be a lot of stranded women in the city. She listened to a sad tale of a woman from Hong Konfg who was really from Carthage, N.Y. She also spent her day traveling underground in the subways hoping she could have traveled instead to Staten Island. She also discusses their meeting the other day.

4 p. on 2 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...