Edwin Markham corrected proof, portrait, and signed poem, 1913-1926.

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Edwin Markham corrected proof, portrait, and signed poem, 1913-1926.

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The collection consists of three items: galley proof of his poem, To Alfred Noyes, Apostle of Poetry and Peace, for Century Magazine, circa 1913, with both handwritten corrections and a typed sheet with new and corrected lines; printed copy of poem, The Fate of the Fur Folk, printed for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, inscribed by Markham to Ernest R. Weidhaas, 6 Mar. 1926; portrait of Markham as an older man, printed in black-and-white on cardstock, undated.

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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 ...

Weidhaas, Ernest R.

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Noyes, Alfred, 1880-1958

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Poet. From the description of Papers of Alfred Noyes, 1941. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454022 Author Alfred Noyes was born in England and attended Oxford, although he left without earning a degree. He published his first book of poems at the age of twenty-one, and within ten years had become the most commercially successful poet of his day. Popular and prolific, Noyes wrote disarming, skillful verse in traditional metre, and actively opposed the Modernist movement. He ...