Letter, March 3, 1910-1920, New York City [to] Mr. Edwin Markham, My Dear Poet, [Staten Island, New York] / Florence Wier Gibson. 1910-1920.

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Letter, March 3, 1910-1920, New York City [to] Mr. Edwin Markham, My Dear Poet, [Staten Island, New York] / Florence Wier Gibson. 1910-1920.

Sends Markham two tickets for his Sunday night talk at Mr. & Mrs. Walston Brown's home. her sister's cousin, Ms. Minshall, invited her to share athese "talks" with her. Asks to be one of her distinguished guests at the April gathering. She had also asked Prof. Phelps, Hamlin Garland, Robert Underwood Johnson, Charles R. Kennedy.

3 p. on 1 leaf ; 18-21 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7599916

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 ...

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Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940

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Gibson, Florence.

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