Edwin Markham letter to My dear sirs, 1899 May 3.

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Edwin Markham letter to My dear sirs, 1899 May 3.

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Markham writes to My dear sirs, 3 May 1899 from Oakland, clarifying the wording of a dedication to E.C. Stedman. He goes on to ask that Miss Hozen look out for the interests of his book, and protests references to him as an elderly man, as he is forty-seven.

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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 ...