Two exceptional letters signed ("Sidney Lanier") to John Foster Kirk, editor of 'Lippincott's Magazine'; Baltimore, 24 August 1878 and 15 June 1880
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. ALS of 24 August 1878: 7 pages, blue ink on white paper, with numerous revisions.....