Markham, Edwin (1852-1940)

LINCOLN, THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE. [caption title]

NP: np, nd [ca.1922?] (copyright 1900, 1919). Poetry broadside, 35 x 21 cm. N.p: [1922?]. Overall age toning, shallow chipping to upper and lower margins, chips to lower corners, not affecting text, old fold lines, browned on verso. Inscribed by Markham in ink at the top, "To Audrey Orrington, in memory of the day in January when I read all the poems in her Demi-Tasse. West New Brighton, N.Y., Jan. 18, 1931." Signed at the bottom by Markham. The poem has four stanzas of uneven length, a total of 57 lines. A printed note at the top indicates this "revised edition" was read by Markham at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. in 1922. The latest copyright is 1919. A printed note along the bottom of the broadside quotes Dr. Henry Van Dyke of Princeton who said "Edwin Markham's Lincoln is the greatest poem ever written on the immortal martyr, and the greatest that ever will be written." Item #66116

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