Letter 1955, Jan. 24, Staten Island, New York, Mrs. Pearl Buck, New York / Alfred J. Krahmer. 1955.

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Letter 1955, Jan. 24, Staten Island, New York, Mrs. Pearl Buck, New York / Alfred J. Krahmer. 1955.

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He tells Mrs. Buck how much he enjoyed reading "My Several Worlds". In her book, she added the poem, "The Man with the Hoe". He feels she would be interested in visiting The Edwin Markham Memorial Reading Room, at Wagner College. He explains that his entire library was wiled to the College. He adds that his son, Virgil Markham, is also chairman of their English Dept. He invites her to come visit the collection.

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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 ...

Krahmer, Alfred J.

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Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973

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Pearl S. Buck was the daughter of American missionary parents, and spent the first seventeen years of her life in China. Her third novel, The Good Earth, won the Pulitzer Prize, and a Nobel Prize for literature followed, citing The Good Earth as well as her biographies of her parents. Critical reception for her works has been mixed since these early successes. A prolific and optimistic author, most of her fiction is set in China, and she displays great affection for the place and her characters....

Markham, Virgil, 1899-

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