Letter, February 13,1900-1910, New York City [to] Mr. Edwin Markham, [Staten Island, New York] / W.F.G.[Gill]. 1900-1910.

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Letter, February 13,1900-1910, New York City [to] Mr. Edwin Markham, [Staten Island, New York] / W.F.G.[Gill]. 1900-1910.

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Wants Markham to deliver his poem on a function at Carnegie Hall in memory of Washington's birthday. Talks about Sigurd Russell, Edmund Russell's son and Hellen Crane Russell. Tells him that he will go to the opera "Faust" on Wednesday.

4 p. on 1 leaf ; 18-21 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 ...

Gill, William Fearing, 1844-1917

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Russell, Edmund, 1957-....

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