Sidney Lanier collection, 1899-1931 [manuscript].

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Sidney Lanier collection, 1899-1931 [manuscript].

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The collection contains a printed copy of "Sidney Lanier, Biographical Sketch and Bibliography" (Southern History Association, 1899) by George Stockton Wills, professor at Western Maryland College, containing the author's extensive manuscript revisions and additions, with pertinent correspondence, 1899-1904, and clippings pasted in. Also included is a mimeographed monograph, "Sidney Lanier's Fame and Memorials," by Oliver Orr, Macon, Ga., 1931 (10 pages).

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Wills, George Stockton, 1866-1956

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Lanier, Sidney, 1842-1881

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Sidney Lanier was a noted Southern poet and composer, born in Macon, Georgia, on Feb. 3, 1842. He graduated from Oglethorpe University and voluntarily fought for the Confederacy as a member of the 2nd Battalion Infantry (Georgia), and the Signal Corps. It is likely that Lanier contracted tuberculosis during his stay at at Union prison camp, and the complications from that disease would affect Lanier his entire life. After the war, Lanier worked as a tutor and headmaster at an academy in Alabama ...

Orr, Oliver H. (Oliver Hamilton)

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