Correspondence of Edwin Markham [manuscript], 1909-1910.

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Correspondence of Edwin Markham [manuscript], 1909-1910.

Correspondence chiefly between Edwin Markham and S.D. Woods, along with some correpondence between S.D. Woods and others. 6 letters from Markham to Woods include envelopes, and also included is an additional envelope from Markham to Woods, dated only August 17. Also a bill from Miller & Lux, Inc. to Markham.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7935697

University of Virginia. 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 ...

Woods, Samuel D.

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