Letter, January 29, 1908, Boston, Massachusetts [to] Mr. [Edwin Markham], Staten Island, New York / Wm. Lloyd Garrison. 1902.

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Letter, January 29, 1908, Boston, Massachusetts [to] Mr. [Edwin Markham], Staten Island, New York / Wm. Lloyd Garrison. 1902.

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Asks Markham to check the last line of the first verse in the enclosed poem for accuracy. Wants to put it in the "Free Trade Broadside". He's sorry he didn't have the change to counter on the bumptious District Attorney but hopes to make the incident a text for a magazine article on "What is Democracy?"

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 ...

Garrison, William Lloyd, 1838-1909

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