Letter, June 12, 1932, New York City [to] Mr. Edwin Markham, [Staten Island, New York] / Gertrude Gleaves Gompers. 1932.

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Letter, June 12, 1932, New York City [to] Mr. Edwin Markham, [Staten Island, New York] / Gertrude Gleaves Gompers. 1932.

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Would like Mr. Markham to send her some thoughts of incidents pertaining to her late husband Samuel Gompers. She is compiling an intermate writing of him and would grately appreciate some comments from him.

1 p. on 1 leaf ; 21-28 cm.

Wagner College, Horrmann Library

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Wagner College, Horrmann Library

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Gompers, Samuel, 1850-1924

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Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) was President of the American Federation of Labor and a member of the President's First Industrial Conference in 1919. He was a member of the President's Unemployment Conference in 1921. ...

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 ...

Gomper, Gertrude Gleaves.

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