Mary Day Lanier papers, 1889-1904.

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Mary Day Lanier papers, 1889-1904.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86108095

This collection contains letters, notes, and postcards written by Mary Day Lanier after the death of her husband, Sidney Lanier. The letters are written to close friends from various places in the North and South. In several of them there are references to Sidney Lanier and his work which she was editing. Lanier mentions Father Tabb, the priest poet. Some of the letters are addressed to "Dearest Lilla" who was Mrs. W.B. Burroughs of Brunswick, Georgia, nee Elizabeth (Lilla) Petingale Wilson Hazelhurst, who designed the monument for Sidney Lanier's grave. Other letters from Lanier are in the possession of the Burroughs family. Typed copies of the letters are filed with them. Included is a photograph of Mrs. Lanier and a postcard to Mrs. S.H. Reese, W. Philadelphia, Pa., signed "K.T.B.," with a clipping re Lanier's poems pasted on. The papers on in chronological order. Lacking covering envelopes, the only addresses that can be identified are for "Lilla", Mrs. C.F. Saunders and Mrs. Charles Reese.

1 folder (.05 cubic feet)

Georgia Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 8338851

Georgia Historical Society

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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 ...

Lanier, Mary Day, 18..-19..?

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Mary Day Lanier (ca. 1844-1931) was a native of Macon, Georgia. She and Sidney Lanier, the poet and musician, were married there in December 1867. Long after his death she edited The Poems of Sidney Lanier (N.Y.: Scribner, 1903). From the description of Mary Day Lanier papers, 1889-1904. (Georgia Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 86108095 Mary Day Lanier was a poet and the wife of Sidney Lanier, a 19th century Georgia author. They were both born in Macon, Georgia and ...