Letter, February 9,1900-1910, New York City [to] Mr. Edwin Markham, [Staten Island, New York] / W. Fearing Gill, President of the La Hayette Society of Paris. 1900-1910.

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Letter, February 9,1900-1910, New York City [to] Mr. Edwin Markham, [Staten Island, New York] / W. Fearing Gill, President of the La Hayette Society of Paris. 1900-1910.

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Invites Markham to be part of the unveiling exercise at Carnegie Hall by contributing a poem for the accasion.

2 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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