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Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Diwakar Bhandari Finding aid written in English Lanier (Sidney) 1842-1881 Papers 1838-1972 Ms.7 Special CollectionsThe Milton S. Eisenhower Library The Johns Hopkins University May 1989 Contact Information Special Collections The Milton S. Eisenhower Library The Johns Hopkins University 3400 North Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21218 (410) 516-8323 Processed by: Cynthia H. Requardt Date completed: May 1989 Encoded by: Diwakar Bhandari

Descriptive Summary Ms. 7 Lanier (Sidney) 1842-1881 Papers 1838-1972 Lanier, Sidney, 1842-1881 Johns Hopkins University. Special Collections 45 document boxes, 5 flat boxes (21.75 linear feet) English The collection spans the years 1838 to 1972. The material consists of correspondence, prose, poetry, lecture and music manuscripts, photographs, and newspaper clippings. The correspondence gives a rounded picture of Lanier's life and work. Many of his outgoing letters as well as incoming are included in this collection. Most of Lanier's adult life was marked by a continuous struggle against poor health and financial straits. He was forced to undertake many journeys for the sake of his health, and his efforts to support himself and his family were a constant strain. The correspondence between Lanier and his wife and family present a vivid portrait of his personality. His fight against disease and poverty is indirectly reflected in his poetry, but there is always a strong note of courage and optimism. Lanier's letters begin during his days as a Confederate soldier and prisoner-of-war, but most letters are from 1870 through 1881. During the period 1873 to 1877 when Lanier spent the fall and winter in Baltimore, his letters detail his musical and literary activities in that city. People mentioned include Leonce Rabillon, Innes Randolph, William Hand Browne, Edward Spencer, John Banister Tabb, Richard Malcolm Johnston, Severn Teackle Wallis, Henry Wysham, and Otto Sutro. Lanier's incoming letters from friends and fellow musicians and authors complement Lanier's letters to his family. Musicians with whom Lanier was in contact included Mme. Auerbach, Dudley Buck, Asger Hamerik, Theodore Thomas, and Carl Wehner. Through the efforts of Lanier's family after his death, the collection contains nearly all Lanier's extant prose, poetry, and music manuscripts. There are drafts, finished manuscripts, proofs, and printed copies. These are found in Series 4, 5 and 10. A considerable portion of the collection deals with Lanier's family's efforts to have him and his work recognized. Series 7 Memorials contains letters, clippings, and printed material from numerous celebrations held in Lanier's honor. Mary Day Lanier's correspondence outside of her letters from Sidney largely deal with her efforts to have Lanier's work published. Administrative Information Provenance

It appears that some Lanier material was owned by the Johns Hopkins University in the 1890s. Whether this was left by Lanier at his death or donated by the family is unclear. The bulk of the papers in this collection, however, were donated to the Johns Hopkins University in 1940 by Charles D. Lanier. These were materials by and about Sidney Lanier which the family had collected. More material about Lanier and tributes to him were added to this initial collection by numerous donors notably Lanier biographers Edward Mims and Aubrey H. Starke. This material includes photocopies of Lanier material owned by other libraries. In 1991 the contents of Sidney Lanier's desk and trunk which had been in storage were added to the collection.

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Permission to publish material from this collection must be requested in writing from the Manuscripts Librarian, Milton S. Eisenhower Library, The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Md. 21218.

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Sidney Lanier Papers Ms. 7 Special Collections Milton S. Eisenhower Library The Johns Hopkins University

Biographical Note

Sidney Lanier was born in Macon, Georgia on February 3, 1842, the son of Robert Sampson Lanier and Mary Jane Anderson Lanier. He attended the Bibb County Male Academy and in 1857 entered the sophomore class of Oglethorp University in Milledgeville, Georgia. He graduated from Oglethorp in 1860 and was a tutor there from 1860-61.

On July 10, 1861 Lanier enrolled as a private in the Macon Volunteers C.S.A. In the autumn of 1862 he transferred to the Signal corps and in 1863 while stationed at Fort Boykin, he began writing his first novel Tiger-Lilies which was published in 1867. Detailed to a blockade runner, Sidney Lanier was captured on November 6, 1864 and imprisoned at Point Lookout, Maryland. In the rigorous conditions of this camp he contracted tuberculosis. He was exchanged in February 1865 and returned to Macon. From 1865 to 1868 Lanier was a tutor, hotel clerk, and finally principal of an academy in Prattville, Alabama. He studied law under his father and practiced law as his health permitted from 1869 until 1873. For his health Lanier spent the winter of 1872- 73 in San Antonio, Texas.

In 1873 Lanier began his association with Baltimore. He came to Baltimore to play first flute in Asger Hamerik's Peabody Orchestra. For four seasons Lanier took a room in Baltimore, played in the orchestra and at the end of the season returned to his family in Georgia. During this period Lanier became acquainted with the Wednesday Club where he met Baltimore's leading literary and musical figures such as Leonce Rabillon, Innes Randolph, William Hand Browne, Edward Spencer, John Banister Tabb, Richard Malcolm Johnston, Severn Teackle Wallis, Henry Wysham, and Otto Sutro.

The years Lanier divided between Baltimore and Georgia were productive ones. He began to write poetry again publishing "Corn" and "The Symphony" in 1875, and "Cantata," "The Psalm of the West," "Clover," "The Waving of the Corn," and Poems all of which appeared in 1876. He also composed music, and he was commissioned to write the travel book Florida which was published in 1875.

Lanier moved his family to Baltimore in 1877. To supplement his income he taught at several private schools. In November 1878 Lanier gave a course on Shakespeare at the Peabody Institute. He then lectured at the newly organized Johns Hopkins University on "English Verse, Especially Shakespeare's" (1879), "Chaucer and Shakespeare" (1880), and "The English Novel" (1881). During this period Lanier published many poems including "The Revenge of Hamish" and "The Marshes of Glynn" in 1878 and "Sunrise" and "A Ballad of Trees and the Master" in 1880. He also completed The Science of English Verse (1880), and edited The Boy's King Arthur (1880), The Boy's Froissart (1879), "The Boy's Mabinogion," and "The Boy's Percy."

Lanier had been in ill-health for several years when he began a serious decline in 1881. He sought relief in the hills of North Carolina where died September 7. He was buried in Greenmount Cemetery in Baltimore. Lanier was survived by his wife Mary Day whom he had married in 1867 and their four sons Charles Day (b. 1868), Sidney (b. 1870), Henry Wysham (b. 1873), and Robert Sampson (b. 1880).

A chronology of Lanier's life is in Appendix 1.

Description of Series/Container List Series 1: Clifford A. Lanier Papers Series 1: Clifford A. Lanier Papers, 1838, 1859-1908 2 boxes

This series is almost entirely Clifford's correspondence. There are letters between Clifford and his father Robert S. Lanier, his mother Mary J. Lanier, his brother and wife Sidney and Mary Day Lanier, his sister Gertrude Lanier Gibson, and Virginia Tunstall Clay Clopton. Letters (1865-1900) from Clifford to Mary Day Lanier are in Series 9.

There are two student notebooks of Clifford's. Included here is a manuscript periodical entitled "Literary Gleaner." It is vol. 1 no. 1 and dated 1838. It possibly belonged to Clifford's mother Mary Jane Anderson Lanier.

Box Contents 1.1 Robert S. Lanier letters, 1861-92 1.1 Mary J. Lanier letters, 1860-64 1.1 Sidney Lanier letters, 1859-81 1.1 Gertrude Lanier Gibson letters , 1861-68 1.2 Gertrude Lanier Gibson letters, 1868-70 1.2 Mary Day Lanier letters, 1875-98 1.2 Virginia Tunstall Clay Clopton letters, 1888-1908 1.2 writings, n.d. 1.2 student notebooks, n.d. 1.2 Literary Gleaner, 1938 Series 2: Correspondence Series 2: Correspondence, 1857-1932 12 boxes

This series includes all the letters sent or received by Sidney Lanier except those he wrote to his wife Mary Day Lanier and his brother Clifford. Those letters are in Series 1 and 6.

The letters are filed alphabetically by author. The most frequent writers are: William Hand BrowneDudley BuckCharlotte Cushman Salem Dutcher Sarah J. Farley M. Clare de Graffenried Virginia W. HankinsPaul Hamilton Hayne Clifford A. Lanier Gertrude Lanier Shannon GibsonRobert S. Lanier Mary Day Lanier Milton H. NorthrupGussie Lamar OgdenGibson PeacockJosephine SeatonEmma StebbinsJohn Banister TabbBayard Taylor

There are also some of Lanier's outgoing letters in this series. After his death, some people returned to the family letters written to them by Lanier. These letters have been interfiled with the incoming letters.

This series also includes typed transcripts. Sidney Lanier's family correspondence and some of his business correspondence has been transcribed. Transcripts of the outgoing and incoming letters have been filed chronologically.

Nearly all the correspondence has been published. Anderson, Charles R. and Aubrey H. Starke, eds. Sidney Lanier: Letters. Centennial Edition. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1945.

Box Contents 2.1 unidentified 2.1 A-Be 2.1 Beck 2.1 Bleckley, L.E. 2.1 Bo-Br 2.1 Browne, Francis F. 2.1 Browne, William Hand 2.1 Br-Bu 2.1 Buck, Dudley 2.1 Cal-Co 2.1 Cushman, Charlotte 2.1 Day, Charles 2.1 Day, Henry 2.1 Da-Doo 2.1 Dorsey 2.1 Dun 2.1 Dutcher, Salem 2.1 E (various) 2.1 Farley, Sarah J. 2.1 F (various) 2.2 Gibson, Gertrude Lanier 2.2 Ga - Gilman 2.2 Gilman, Daniel Coit 2.2 de Graffenried, M. Clare 2.2 Hamerik, Asgar 2.2 Hankins, Virginia W. 2.3 Hankins, Virginia W. (copies) 2.3 Har-Haw 2.3 Hayne, Paul Hamilton 2.3 Hazelhurst, Lilly 2.3 Hec-Hol 2.3 Hop-Hur 2.3 Hur-Inn 2.3 James, John G. 2.3 Joh-Kir 2.3 Lamar, Gussie 2.3 Lanier, Charles D. 2.3 Lanier, Clifford 2.4 Lanier, Henry W. 2.4 Lanier, Mary Day 2.5 Lanier, Mary J. Anderson 2.5 Lanier, Robert Sampson 2.6 Lanier, Robert Sampson 2.6 Lanier, Sidney Jr. 2.6 Lanier 2.6 Lat-Lip 2.6 Lip-Lon 2.6 Longfellow, Henry W. 2.6 Lon-Mac 2.6 Machen, Mrs. Arthur 2.6 Mas-Mil 2.6 Mon-Nation 2.6 The Nation 2.6 New-Northrup, Milton H. 2.6 Ogd-Par 2.6 Peacock, Gibson 2.6 Peck, Edward B. 2.6 Pope, A. - Pratt 2.7 Price, George W.Y. - Rob 2.7 Rob-Scribner's 2.7 Scribner's (Josephine Seaton) 2.7 Seaton-Snowden 2.7 Spedding - Spencer, Edward 2.7 Spe - Stebbins, Emma 2.7 Ste- 2.7 Tabb, John Bannister 2.7 Taylor, Bayard 2.7 Tuc-Wal 2.7 War-Wys 2.8 Lanier correspondence (typed transcripts) , 1857-67 2.9 Lanier correspondence (typed transcripts) , 1868-71 2.10 Lanier correspondence (typed transcripts) , 1872-74 2.11 Lanier correspondence (typed transcripts) , 1875-77 2.12 Lanier correspondence (typed transcripts) , 1878-81 2.12 letters about Lanier (typed transcripts) , 1882-32 Series 3: Personal Series 3: Personal, 1858-91, n.d. 1.5 boxes

This series contains Lanier's student papers, programs from concerts he gave or theater and club meetings he attended. There are also legal and financial papers. In this file are several leases and the copyright registration for his novel Tiger Lilies. The financial file includes promissory notes, checks, and receipts for household purchases made by the Lanier family from 1868 until 1901. There are also royalty agreements and statements from 1880-1911. Answers to questions giving "The mental Photograph of Sidney Lanier" (1874) is in Ms. 55 Series 3.

Newspaper clippings, biographical material and genealogical research complete this series.

Box Contents 3.1 school notebook , 1858 3.1 speeches, debates, essays , 1858-69 3.1 legal papers , 1867-80 3.1 club memberships, invitations , 1871-80 3.1 Wednesday Club , 1870s 3.1 concert programs (Lanier flutist), 1867-78 3.1 concert and theater programs , 1873-91 3.1 newspaper clippings , 1850s-81 3.1 tickets to Shakespeare course 3.2 promissory notes , 1872-82 3.2 receipts , 1868-90, 1901 3.2 cancelled checks , 1880-89 3.2 royalty statements , 1880-1911 3.3 scrapbook, confederate money , 1864-95 3.3 obituaries , 1881 3.3 bibliography 3.3 genealogical material 3.4 memorabilia from Lanier's desk and trunk: letter holder silk book marks medicine case 3.4 eyedropper 3.4 card case 3.4 quills 3.4 penwiper 3.4 sealing wax 3.4 letter opener 3.4 letter scale 3.4 protractor 3.4 scissors 3.4 picture stand 3.4 saddle straps 3.4 leather purse carried in the army 3.4 rosin for violin 1878-79 3.4 box formerly containing acorns from grave 3.4 carvings of knight and hare 3.4 slats for Wooton desk 3.4 calling cards 3.4 piece of flannel wrapper 3.4 map of Georgia 3.4 checkers, wooden game discs Series 4: Writings Series 4: Writings, 1850s-1881 6 boxes

The manuscripts in this series are largely poems with some prose pieces. Because few of the items are dated, the manuscripts have been organized alphabetically by the working title which appears on the piece. The titles are in the Container List. For more information on these manuscript poems and fragments see Sidney Lanier: Poems and Poem Outlines edited by Charles R. Anderson. Centennial Edition. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1945.

Also included in this series are the page proofs for several of Lanier's works and notes taken by Lanier on various subjects.

Box Contents 4.1 Sonnette. Au Frau Nannette Falk-Auerbach 4.1 As When Care Wearied Majesty 4.1 At First 4.1 The Bee 4.1 Betrayal 4.1 Bombs from Below 4.1 Burn the Stubble 4.1 Cantata, Centennial; Song of Columbia 4.1 Chair of Poetry 4.1 Civil Rights 4.1 Chaucer and Shakespeare I-XI 4.1 Corn, An Ode 4.1 Clover, And Other Poems 4.1 The Crystal 4.1 The Dove. A Song 4.1 Dream of a Time When Legislatures Sit 4.1 The Dying Words of Jackson 4.1 The Death of Byrhtuoth: A Study in Anglo-Saxon Poetry 4.2 La Favorite de Vienne 4.2 Flag Presentation at Oglethorpe University 4.2 For the Golden Wedding of Sterling and Sarah Lanier 4.2 From a Flat Land 4.2 Faust 4.2 Harlequin of Dreams 4.2 Have You Forgot 4.2 Hideous Habitats of Gloom 4.2 The Homestead 4.2 A Handbook for Home and Village Orchestras 4.2 Hymns of the Marshes. II The Cloud 4.2 Hymns of the Marshes. II Sunrise 4.2 I Said to Myself 4.2 I'll Sleep, I'll Sleep 4.2 In Absence (Lans Mariae) 4.2 In the Foam 4.2 Introduction to: The Boy's Froissart 4.2 Introduction to: The Boy's King Arthur 4.2 Introduction to: The Boy's Mabinogion 4.2 Introduction to: The Boy's Percy 4.2 The Jacquerie 4.2 John Barbour's Bruce illustrations 4.2 Jones's Private Argument 4.2 June Dreams; In January 4.2 Laughter in the Senate 4.2 Marshes of Glynn (contemporary criticism of) 4.2 Maryland Musical Festival 4.2 Mr. Query 4.2 The Mockingbird 4.2 Morning on the Thermodoon 4.2 Morning Talk , The Lover 4.2 My Spring 4.2 My Two Springs 4.2 The New Time 4.2 Night 4.2 Night and Day 4.2 Nilson 4.2 Nine from Eight 4.2 Nirvana 4.3 Ode to Johns Hopkins University 4.3 Oh, What if Violet Browne Were Seen 4.3 On a Palmetto 4.3 On Huntington's Miranda 4.3 On Metrical Tests; Or, The Rise of the Exact Method of Criticism 4.3 On Music 4.3 Opposition 4.3 The Orchestra 4.3 Our Cook 4.3 Our Hills 4.3 Owl against Robin 4.3 Peace 4.3 The Physics of Music 4.3 The Poet to the Pennsylvania Board of Pardons 4.3 Psalm of the West 4.3 Remonstrance 4.3 Rhyming Poem (Guest's translation) 4.3 Rose-Morals 4.3 Sermon (Hymn) 4.3 Sherman Bill 4.3 Sometime 4.3 Song of Eternity in Time 4.3 A Song of Love 4.3 Songs against Death 4.3 Sonnet VII 4.3 Special Pleading 4.3 Spring and Tyranny 4.3 The Stirrup Cup 4.3 Red-breast in Tampa 4.3 The Story of a Proverb 4.3 Street Cries 4.3 Struggle 4.3 A Sunrise Song 4.3 Sword Exercise 4.3 The Symphony 4.3 Thar's More in the Man than Thar is in the Land 4.3 Them Ku Klux 4.3 There Was One Fled from the Sound of Bells' Death Toll 4.3 The Three Waterfalls 4.3 Tiger Lilies 4.3 To Bayard Taylor 4.3 To Bob Mockingbird 4.3 To Capt. James DeWitt Hankins 4.3 To Cousin Willie 4.3 To Dr. Thomas Shearer 4.3 To G.H., alias My Love Bird 4.3 To Lucie 4.3 To Jamie Lamar 4.3 To M.D. 4.3 To M.F.P. 4.3 To Miss Charlotte Cushman 4.3 To Mrs. S.C. Bird 4.3 To Our Hills 4.3 To Richard Wagner 4.3 To S.E.G. 4.3 The Tournament 4.3 The Truth about Wagner 4.3 Wagner's Ring 4.3 Wagner's Beethoven 4.3 Wagner's Music 4.3 Variety is the Spice of Life 4.3 Water Lilies 4.3 Waving the Corn 4.3 The Wedding 4.3 What I Know about Flowers 4.3 Whate'er Has Been, Is 4.3 The White Veil 4.3 Will All Be Right in a Hundred Years 4.4 manuscript poems and prose (ledger), 1868-72 excerpts from ledger typed transcript of ledger poems printed A-Z writings (typed transcripts) 4.5 proofsheets of: Retrospects & Prospects Shakespeare and His Forerunners Poem Outlines Letters The English Novel: A Study in the Development of Personality 4.6 list of Lanier poems 4.6 notes on Chinese proverbs 4.6 notes on contemporary criticism 4.6 notes on music 4.6 notes on prosody 4.6 notes to Credo and other poems 4.6 notes (unsorted) 4.6 W.H. Browne's translations of: Beowulf 4.6 W.H. Browne's translations of: King Heart<lb/> by Bishop Gavin Douglas 4.6 W.H. Browne's translations of: The Wanderer 4.6 W.H. Browne's translations of: Dara Engla Hryre 4.6 W.H. Browne's translations of: The Dream of the Road 4.6 W.H. Browne's translations of: The Happy Land 4.6 W.H. Browne's translations of: Judith Series 5: Lectures Series 5: Lectures, 1878-81 7 boxes

Sidney Lanier gave several series of lectures in Baltimore between 1878 and 1881. There were public lectures and lectures to students at The Johns Hopkins University. The two main topics were the development of English verse from old English up to Shakespeare and his contemporaries and the development of the English novel.

Included in this series are three sets of lectures. The first is a series of 24 lectures on Shakespeare and his contemporaries given to the public at the Peabody Institute in 1878-79. In 1879 Lanier delivered a series of lectures at The Johns Hopkins University under the title "English Verse, Especially Shakespeare's." The third set of lectures in this series is for a course given at Hopkins in 1881 entitled "From Aeschylus to George Eliot: Twelve Studies in the Modern English Novel as a Development of the Greek Drama." There are also several other lectures on similar topics including "The Physics of Poetry" and the "Sonnet-Makers from Surrey to Shakespeare." Many of these lectures appeared in book form in The Science of English Verse (1880), The English Novel and the Principle of Its Development (1883), and Shakespeare and His Forerunners (1902).

Box Contents 5.1 public lectures on English Literature, 1878,1881 5.1 Shakespeare Lectures, 1878-79 5.1 English Verse - Especially Shakespeare's, 1879-80 5.1 clippings re: lectures at Hopkins , 1881 5.1 Twenty Studies in English Poetry , n.d. Shakespeare Course 5.2 I 5.2 Rhythmic Accent II 5.2 Anglo-Saxon Poems VI 5.2 Beowulf and Midsummer Night's Dream VII 5.2 The Phoenix VIII 5.2 St. Juliana and Love's Labor's Lost IX 5.2 The Wife in Middle English Poetry X 5.2 The Sonnet-Makers from Surrey to Shakespeare XI 5.2 Tottel's Miscellany; Wm. Drummond XII 5.2 Daniel, Constable, Wm. Habington XIII 5.2 notes XIII, XIV 5.3 Sidney's and Shakespeare's Sonnets XIV, XV 5.3 Pronunciation of English in Shakespeare's Time XVI 5.3 Pronunciation (cont.) XVII 5.3 Music of Shakespeare's Time XVIII 5.3 Music (cont.) XIX 5.3 Domestic Life of Shakespeare's XX-XXIIITime 5.3 The Doctors of Shakespeare's Time XXIV 5.3 notes 5.4 Eight Lectures on the English Sonnet-Writers from Surrey to Shakespeare 5.4 Lectures at Johns Hopkins University [?] Chaucer and Shakespeare Caedmon to Chaucer Chaucer to Shakespeare Chaucer notes Lectures at Johns Hopkins University 1879 5.4 On English Verse Especially Shakespeare's I-II 5.4 III 5.4 The Rhythms of English Verse IV-V 5.4 History of Rhythm VI-VII 5.4 Odds and Ends of Rhythm Colors of Verse VIII 5.5 Colors of Verse IX 5.5 Pronunciation of Shakespeare's Time XI 5.5 X, XII 5.5 Metrical Tests XIII 5.5 XIV 5.5 Man's Relation to Man XV 5.5 Relations of Man to Nature fragments XVI 5.6 Physics of Poetry Rhythm I Speech-Melody II The Colors of Verse III Lectures at Johns Hopkins University 1881 5.6 From Aeschylus to George Eliot I 5.6 II 5.6 The Novel III 5.7 The Novel IV-VI 5.7 George Eliot VII-IX 5.7 X-XII 5.7 notes Series 6: Reviews Series 6: Reviews, 1868-1948 1 box

Included here are newspaper clippings of reviews of Sidney Lanier's poetry, prose and music as well as reviews of works about Lanier.

Box Contents 6.1 Tiger Lilies, 1868 6.1 poems in magazines, 1868-77, 1882 6.1 prose in magazines, 1873-98 6.1 Lanier as musician, poems set to music, 1873-1941 6.1 Poems 1876 6.1 Centennial (Cantata), 1876 6.1 Florida: Its Scenery, Climate, and History, 1876 6.1 The Boy's Froissart, 1879 6.1 The Boy's King Arthur, 1880 6.1 The Science of English Verse, 1880 6.1 The Boy's Percy, 1882 6.1 The English Novel and the Principles of Its Development, 1883 6.1 Poems of Sidney Lanier ed. Mary D. Lanier, 1884 6.1 Letters of Sidney Lanier: Selections from His Correspondence, 1866-1881, 1899 6.1 Retrospects and Prospects, Descriptive and Historical Essays, 1899 6.1 Shakespeare and His Forerunners ed. Henry W. Lanier, 1902 6.1 The Lanier Book ed. Mary E. Burt, 1904 6.1 Sidney Lanier by Edwin Mims, 1905 6.1 1908 Poem Outlines ed. Henry W. Lanier, 6.1 Sidney Lanier: A Biographical and Critical Study by Aubrey Harrison Starke , 1933 6.1 The Life of Sidney Lanier by Lincoln Lorenz, 1935 6.1 The Centennial Edition of the Works of Sidney Lanier ed. Charles R. Anderson, 1946 Series 7: Memorials Series 7: Memorials, 1881-1952, 1971, 1972 6 boxes

The materials in this series document the Lanier family's efforts to publicize Sidney's life and works. The memorials are correspondence and manuscript material from efforts to honor Lanier in ceremonies in 1881 and 1888. There are also printed programs from ceremonies held in 1881, 1888, 1919, 1926, 1933, 1939, 1940, and 1942. Photographs of many of these ceremonies are in Series 8. With this material is also a group of original poems written as tributes to Lanier. These are filed alphabetically by the author.

In addition to these memorial files, the family retained newspaper clippings of events, tributes or remembrances of Lanier. There are two sets of these clippings; one is filed chronologically from 1890-1944, 1971, 1972 and the second is filed alphabetically by the author. There is also a series of clippings about friends and family members other than Sidney. these are filed alphabetically by the individual's name.

Finally this series contains correspondence about Lanier. It again documents efforts to honor him. The letters are filed chronologically. Especially well-represented are the efforts in 1939 and 1940 to have Lanier elected to the Hall of Fame and the honoring of Lanier on the centennial of his birth in 1942. The letters concerning the donation of Lanier's papers to The Johns Hopkins University by the many Lanier family members who had manuscripts are in this series. There is also a small file of letters (1941-52) relating to researcher's use of the Lanier papers after the University acquired them. See also the records of the National Lanier Centennial Committee in Ms. 308.

Box Contents 7.1 poems about Lanier (originals) A-W, 7.1 poems about Lanier (clippings) A-Y, 7.1 arrangements for memorial events , 1881,1883,1888 7.1 printed material for memorial events, 1881-1942 7.1 Sidney Lanier commemorative postage stamps, 7.2 newspaper clippings re: Lanier and memorials, 1884-1940 newspaper clippings re: Lanier and memorials, 1935-44, 1971, 1972 7.3 A-G 7.4 H-W 7.5 newspaper clippings (dulpicates?), 7.5 articles about Lanier: Prefatory Note to Letters by Charles D. Lanier , 1899 Sidney Lanier: Reminiscences and Letters<lb/> by Daniel Coit Gilman , 1905 Scribner Firsts, 1936 Music of Sidney Lanier and Frederick Nietzsche <lb/> American School of the Air (script) , 1936 Sidney Lanier<lb/> by William Lyon Phelps , 1938 Sidney Lanier at the Peabody Institute<lb/> by Frederick Kelley , 1939 Sidney Lanier<lb/> by John Saulsbury Short , 1940 January Southern Literary Messenger (dedicated to Sidney Lanier) , 1940 The Sidney Lanier Monument Research<lb/>by Lee Hartman , 1970 biography for Sidney Lanier Room, Richmond Hill, 1989 7.6 A-W newspaper clippings re: Lanier family members , 7.7 correspondence re: Sidney Lanier, 1880-1938 7.8 correspondence re: Sidney Lanier , 1939-48, 1958 7.8 correspondence re: use of Sidney Lanier papers , 1941-52 Series 8: Photographs Series 8: Photographs, 1857-1946, n.d. 2 boxes

This series contains photographs of Sidney Lanier and his family including his wife, four sons, father, brother and sister. There are also carte-de-visites and cabinet photographs of many Lanier friends. The names are listed in the Container List. Other aspects of Lanier's life documented by photographs or prints are places he lived or visited. There are also photographs of the many Lanier memorials and ceremonies honoring him.

Box Contents 8.1 Sidney Lanier (original photographs) 8.1 Sidney Lanier (copy photographs) 8.1 Robert Sampson Lanier 8.1 [Lanier]/Gibson tintypes 8.1 Sidney Lanier, Jr. 8.1 Henry W. Lanier 8.1 Robert S. Lanier 8.1 Charles Day Lanier 8.1 Charles Day Lanier family 8.1 Day family 8.1 Mary Day Lanier (original photographs) 8.1 Mary Day Lanier (copy photographs) 8.1 J.F.D. Lanier 8.1 [Lanier] family groups (unidentified) 8.1 Clifford A. Lanier 8.1 Laneare, Nicholas (print) 8.1 Anderson family 8.1 Lanier friends: Badger, A.G. and wife 2 photographs Brooks, Phillips Browne, William Hand Burroughs, Dr. William Berrian Cushman, Charlotte Damrosch, Dr. Leopold and son Walter Darwin, Charles deGraffenreid, Clare Duncan, Dr. William (1799-1879) Farley, Mrs. (mother of Sarah J. Farley) Ferguson, Fred , 1866 Hankins, Virginia Hayne, Paul Hamilton Keyser, Ephraim (in studio with Lanier bust) Mum, Margaret Crosby Northrup, Milton Harlow 2 photographs Orr, Oliver 2 photographs Robinson, Dr. Emmett Strong, Dr. Taylor, Bayard , 1875 Tod, Mrs. Kennedy Turnbull, Bayard Ward, William Hayes Webb, Jane Lanier Wehner, Carl 2 photographs Westfeldt, Mr. and Mrs. George 3 photographs Wyman, Mary 1866 Wysham, Henry C. 1873 Young, Mary Ann 1870s 8.2 photographs of Lanier manuscripts 8.2 Lanier Oak in Brunswick, Georgia 8.2 Lanier Cottage in Macon, Georgia 8.2 cottage in Lynn, Polk County, North Carolina 8.2 Hotel Menger in San Antonia, Texas 8.2 Virginia 8.2 Oglethorpe College 8.2 Gutzon Gorglum bust of Sidney Lanier 8.2 Ephraim Keyser bust of Sidney Lanier 8.2 [Hans Schuler] bust of Sidney Lanier 8.2 monument to Sidney Lanier, Charles St. 8.2 grave, bust, statue of Sidney Lanier 8.2 Lanier china 8.2 Lanier Room, Johns Hopkins University 8.2 Sidney Lanier Branch, Los Angeles Public Library 8.2 exhibit on Lanier, Hutzler's Brothers 8.2 unidentified 8.2 doorway of St. Ann's Parish House, Annapolis 8.2 Published photographs: postcards of places associated with Lanier newspaper clippings of monuments, portraits newspaper clippings of Lanier in Georgia newspaper clippings of Lanier in Baltimore newspaper clippings of Lanier in Florida 8.2 drawings by Remington , 1880 8.2 drawings by Remington , 1880 8.2 drawings unidentified 8.2 Hawthorne Beach , 1883 Sept. 7 8.2 paper cut-out portraits of 4 men Series 9: Mary Day Lanier Papers Series 9: Mary Day Lanier Papers , 1859, 1863-1921, n.d. 8 boxes

The majority of these papers are Mary Day Lanier's incoming letters either from her husband Sidney or about him after his death. Mary's letters to Sidney are in Series 2 and to his brother Clifford in Series 1. There are letters from other family members such as her brother-in-law Clifford, her father Charles Day and her brother Henry. Henry was attached to General Breckinridge's corps and set three letters (1863) describing army life including a map of the engagement at Lookout Mountain outside Chattanooga. Other frequent correspondents were Gibson Peacock, Charles Scribner's Sons, John Banister Tabb, Marie Taylor, and William Hayes Wood. Francese L. Turnbull returned the letters Mary Day and Sidney Lanier wrote to her. These letters (1879-1915 ca. 100 items) are in this series with the letters the Turnbulls wrote to Mary Day.

There are a few of Mary's writings as well as manuscript and printed copies of The Laurel: An Ode (1889) written to Mary Day Lanier by Richard Hovey. There is also a poem by her son Robert entitled "The Master Color-Scheme."

Box Contents 9.1 A - Gilman, Daniel Coit 9.2 Gra - Lanier, Robert S. 9.3 Lanier, Sidney , 1863-70 9.4 Lanier, Sidney , 1870-73 9.5 Lanier, Sidney , 1873-75 9.6 Lanier, Sidney , 1875-81 9.7 Lanier, Sidney Jr. - Turnbull 9.8 correspondence: Ty-Wil 9.8 copybook 1861-67 9.8 diaries\calendars 1898, 1902, 1911, 1913, 1916 9.8 writings 9.8 The Laurel: An Ode by Richard Hovey 9.8 newspaper clippings 9.8 The Master Color-Scheme<lb/>by Robert Lanier 9.8 Lanier bookplate 9.8 keys 9.8 recipes 9.8 calling cards, invitations Oversize box Dore, Gustave. Two Hundred Sketches. Owned by Sarah J. Farley 1867 Oversize box Tiger Lilies (manuscript), 1868 Oversize box copper plate of Melody from Lanier's Flute<lb/> arranged by Edwin Litchfield Turnbull 1913 Oversize box watercolor sketch of Lanier's Oak and the Marshes of Glynn by Walter Overton 1917 Oversize box 4 linen napkins n.d. Oversize box l linen table runner n.d. Oversize box copperplate of Lanier monument on Charles Street, Baltimore, Md. Oversize box Lanier (Sidney) Papers Series 10: Music Series 10: Music, 1868-1940 4 boxes

Sidney Lanier not only composed and played music, but many of his poems were set to music by other composers. This series contains manuscript and printed music by Lanier as well as many versions of his poems set to music by others. There are also three recordings of Lanier's music and a modern transcription of "Wind-Song." Finally there are sheets of music collected by Sidney and Mary Day Lanier. The titles of the music are in the Container List.