Two exceptional letters signed Sidney Lanier to John Foster Kirk, editor of 'Lippincott's Magazine'; Baltimore, 24 August 1878 and 15 June 1880
$8,500 · Offered by Riverrun Books & Manuscripts
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. A total of 12 pages, 8vo, in ink, both letters with a few minor horizontal fold separations, but in very good condition. With an apparently unrecorded photographic portrait of Lanier. Item #409428 ALS of 24 August 1878: 7 pages, blue ink on white paper, with numerous revisions. The letter is a lengthy proposal to Kirk for writing an introduction for the use of colleges and universities
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