Letter, 1930, April 5, Brooklyn, New York [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, My Dear Friend [Staten Island, New York] / Conrnelius Greenway. 1930.

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Letter, 1930, April 5, Brooklyn, New York [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, My Dear Friend [Staten Island, New York] / Conrnelius Greenway. 1930.

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Inquires why he hasn't gotten any reply to his letters. Asks for an autographed copy of "Lincoln and other Poems" and also "The Man With the Hoe". Has the largest Universalist Church in the East and wants to organize a poetry lecture.

1 p. on 1 leaf ; 21-28 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 ...

Greenway, Cornelius

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Cornelius Greenway (1896-1968) immigrated to the United States from Holland in 1914. During World War I he served with the U.S. Army in France and received the Purple Heart and the Service Medal. He graduated from Tufts University with a BA in 1925 and an STB in 1928. He was ordained to the Universalist ministry in 1926 and served the parishes of the Universalist Church of Taunton and the Universalist Church of the Redemption in Boston, Massachusetts. From 1929 to 1965 he served as the pastor of...