Letter to the "Attic Salt-Shaker" [i.e. Mr. Tewson], 1935 August 3.

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Letter to the "Attic Salt-Shaker" [i.e. Mr. Tewson], 1935 August 3.

Brief note from Ted Robinson, Literary Editor, Cleveland Plain Dealer (as identified on letterhead) quoting and praising final lines of Edwin Markham's poem on Abraham Lincoln.

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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 ...

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

Robinson, Ted, 1878-

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Ted Robinson, b. 1878, graduate of Wabash University in 1900, began writing for Cleveland Plain Dealer in 1910. William Orton Tewson, 1877-1947, born in Surrey, England; joined New York Times in 1907 and in charge of Hearst newspapers in New York, 1912-1916; became editor of Literary Review of New York Evening Post. From the description of Letter to the "Attic Salt-Shaker" [i.e. Mr. Tewson], 1935 August 3. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 5724013...

Tewson, William Orton, 1877-1947

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Editor and literary critic. From the description of William Orton Tewson papers, 1923-1926 (bulk 1926). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981490 William Orton Tewson, editor of the Literary review of the New York evening post. Glenn Ward Dresbach, born near Lanark, Ill.; editor of Wisconsin magazine and poet. From the description of Letter to Glenn Ward Dresbach, 1925 July 18. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 54859821 ...