Frieda C. Thies papers, 1908-1984.

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Frieda C. Thies papers, 1908-1984.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49308211

The collection consists largely of personal items belonging to Frieda C. Thies. Included are notebooks, clippings, photographs, a memoir, correspondence, and the many tributes received by Miss Thies during her long career at The Johns Hopkins University. Final material is a bibliography listing the works of the poet, Sidney Lanier, and published writings about him.

1.25 linear ft. (3 document boxes)

Johns Hopkins University, Sheridan Libraries and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7604980

Johns Hopkins University, Sheridan Libraries and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library

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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 ...

Thies, Frieda C. (Frieda Charlotte), 1880-1984

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Frieda C. Thies was curator of manuscripts at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library, The Johns Hopkins University. She was born in Baltimore in 1880 and began working as librarian at Hopkins in 1902 and continued there until her retirement in 1968. Her work included cataloging the extensive correspondence of the poet, Sidney Lanier, and doing the bibiliography for a 10 volume collection of Lanier's works that was published in 1946 by the Johns Hopkins Press. Miss Thies died i...