He is a most exemplary young man

How to introduce a new sibling

Born in Georgia in 1842, American poet Sidney Lanier lived just 39 years, his life cut short by the tuberculosis he contracted while held in a prisoner-of-war camp during the Civil War. He left behind his beloved wife and their three sons. A year before his death, on this day in 1880, Lanier wrote what is surely¹ one of the most endearing letters of intr…