signed Unbound
by HAYNE, Paul H.
Unbound. Near Fine. One page dated 4 April 1885 from his home at Copse Hill, at Grovetown, Georgia. Folded as mailed, slight evidence along one edge that the letter was tipped onto a leaf, else near fine. Hayne sends an autograph verse from his poem "Contrast": "I cheerfully comply with your request. Here is a quatrain, seasonable at least..." that starts: "This blustering March is like Petruchio's Kate, A stormy Vixen loud & passionate, But April..." Hayne was a South Carolina-born poet who who served with the Confederate Army, and moved to Georgia after his home was lost in the bombardment of Charleston. He is now best known for his nurturing the career of poet Henry Timrod, whose poems were greatly influential on future generations of Southern poets. (Inventory #: 399803)