Letter, December 22, 1920, New York City [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island, New York] / Wm. Griffith. 1918.

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Letter, December 22, 1920, New York City [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island, New York] / Wm. Griffith. 1918.

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Will leave it to wife to send a "cheap" Christmas card but he himself sends an expensive poem. Makes a comment that he needs glasses to see the truth but it seems that Markham does not need them. Got a letter from his mother Mrs. Matthes G. Reynolds who would be delighted to put up Mr. Markham in St. Louis. Wants to know when he is bound to go there.

2 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 ...

Griffith, William, 1876-1936

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