Letter, October 24, 1904, Springfield, Massachusetts [to] Mr. Markham [Staten Island, New York] / James E. Tower, Edotor. 1904.

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Letter, October 24, 1904, Springfield, Massachusetts [to] Mr. Markham [Staten Island, New York] / James E. Tower, Edotor. 1904.

Sent proof of poems under separate cover. In reference to the boy article he could use only one for this subject. Asks to compress it to three-thousand worlds. Asks if he is right that they payed him ninety dollars for fifteen-hundred words.

1 p. on 1 leaf ; 18-2 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7603118

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 ...

Tower, James Eaton, 1863-1947.

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Good Housekeeping.

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