Letter from Edwin Markham to May Wright Sewall.

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Letter from Edwin Markham to May Wright Sewall.

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Title: Letter from Edwin Markham to May Wright Sewall.
Description: I am sending some lines inspired by our passion for peace. You are at liberty to suggest changes. It was a great pleasure to meet you again at the Ebell Society - May your years be long for your great service in the cause of humanity. Then follows a poem - "Woman Arise!" Inscribed to the International Conference of Women Workers. Edwin Markham (1852-1940), American poet, famous for the poem "The Man With the Hoe." His works celebrated peace and social reform.
Correspondent: Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940
Date: 1915-10-09; 1915
Time period: 1910s (1910-1919); 20th century;
Subject: Sewall, May Wright, 1844-1920; Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940; Poets--United States; Peace movements--United States; International Conference of Women Workers to Promote Permanent Peace (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.);
Genre: Correspondence;
Collection: May Wright Sewall Papers
Copyright information: Rights undetermined
Physical repository: Indianapolis Special Collections Room, Indianapolis Public Library
Repository collection name: May Wright Sewall letters
Digital publisher: Indianapolis Marion County Public Library
Date digitized: 2005
Repository: The Indianapolis Public Library Digital Collections
Source: From: May Wright Sewall Papers
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