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Edwin Markham Poet Letter New York

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Edwin Markham Poet Letter New York
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Nice signed letter from the noted poet Edwin Markham. Edwin Markham was born in Oregon City, Oregon, and was the youngest of 10 children; his parents divorced shortly after his birth. At the age of four, he moved to Lagoon Valley, a at Christian College in Santa Rosa. He went by "Charles" until about 1895, when he was about 43, when he started using "Edwin." In 1898, Markham married his third wife, Anna Catherine Murphy (1859–1938), and in 1899 their son Virgil Markham was born. They moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1900 to study natives and their appeasement, then to New York City, where they lived in Brooklyn and then Staten Island. Edwin Markham had, by the time of his death, amassed a huge library of 15000+ books. This collection was bequeathed to Wagner College's Horrmann Library, located on Staten Island. Markham also willed his personal papers to the library. Edwin's correspondents included Franklin D. Roosevelt, Ambrose Bierce, Aleister Crowley, Jack and Charmian[4] London, Carl Sandburg, Florence Earle Coates and Amy Lowell.