To Bayard Taylor : original autograph manuscript / Sidney Lanier. [1879]

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To Bayard Taylor : original autograph manuscript / Sidney Lanier. [1879]

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Autograph manuscript of Sidney Lanier's poem "To Bayard Taylor," written in Baltimore, Maryland in about 1879, after Taylor's death. The manuscript poem is written on 5 leaves mounted onto larger sheets, and is bound with a letter from Taylor to Paul Hamilton Hayne, a printed portrait of Lanier and a typescript copy of the poem. The volume also contains a 20th century letterpressed title page.

[43] leaves, bound ; 25 cm.

University of California, Los Angeles

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SNAC Resource ID: 7658855

University of California, Los Angeles

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Taylor, Bayard, 1825-1878

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Author, translator, and traveler. From the description of Papers of Bayard Taylor, 1856-1878. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71064729 American journalist. From the description of Papers of Bayard Taylor [manuscript], 1847-1878. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647972079 From the description of Poem and letter, 1877 June 26, n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647972081 From the description of Letter to a member of the...

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 ...