Sydney Lanier Classic Reprint

Author : Sidney Lanier
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780260205803
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Letters of Sidney Lanier written by Sidney Lanier and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-05 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Letters of Sidney Lanier: Selections From His Correspondence, 1866-1881 Oner and confined at Point Lookout. In February, 1865, he was exchanged, and, travelling most of the dis tance on foot, made his way back to Macon, where he broke down with the first serious premonitions of con sumption. The exposures in the army, the rigor of his imprisonment, -he had begun the winter months at Point Lookout with only summer clothes to wear, had weakened his constitution, and a tendency to consump tion, inherited from his mother, warned him thus early that to live he must struggle. Upon his recovery he was employed as a clerk at Montgomery, Ala., and in 1867 he published, 'in New York, Tiger Lilies, a novel into which he wove some of his war experiences, and which better deserves to be unearthed than do many of the firstfruits of genius. That same year he married Miss Mary Day, of Macon. Thenceforth, through all his wanderings he was blessed with the companionship of one who firmly believed in his powers, and who cheered alike his years of dis appointment and of illness. Doubly precarious was his existence: his ill-health prevented him from pursuing any occupation long, and his straitened means forced him to accept uncongenial employments, if only he might thereby earn bread. We find him teaching school at Prattville, Ala., and then for several years, at his father's urgent request, practising law at Macon, till in 1872 the condition of his lungs drove him to San Antonio, Texas, in search of a climate in which he might safely live. In the following spring, however, he returned to Georgia, and in December, 1873, he went to Baltimore, where he was engaged to play the first flute in the Peabody Orchestra. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.