Sidney Lanier letter, 5 December 1879.

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Sidney Lanier letter, 5 December 1879.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/299086164

The collection consists of a letter from Sidney Lanier to William F. Gable concerning the address of a photographer. There is also one sheet of paper with the word "Clover" and Lanier's address.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7279867

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Gable, William F., 1856-1921

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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 ...