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| Creator: | Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967. |
| Title: | Carl Sandburg Collection |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1924-1954 |
| Quantity: | 2 folders (SC) |
| Abstract: | Three items of outgoing correspondence and a manuscript of the American author and poet. |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: |
Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 http://scrc.syr.edu |
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) was an American author, editor and poet. He won three Pulitzer prizes, two for his poetry and the third for his biography of Abraham Lincoln.
The Carl Sandburg Collection consists of three items of outgoing correspondence and a manuscript. Two letters are to John Stuart Groves. The third, written on the letterhead stationery of the Chicago Daily News, is a note to Miss Cooper about her Memphis bookshop. It includes a holograph attachment which reads in part:
It is a booklover's tavern; ancient; shrewd; up to date; on the job; careless; lavish; paradoxical & whimsical; its welcomes are fresh as the freshest eggs; the panels of its doors have passwords for all book bugs...Whether you laugh or pray depends on how you feel.
Titled "Preface," the seven-page typescript was written in 1924 as an early version of Sandburg's introduction to The Prairie Years. In broadcasts on radio and national television, the piece was read by Sandburg on Abraham Lincoln's birthday, February 12th, 1954.
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Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Carl Sandburg Collection,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Library
Manuscript of preface, gift of George and Lena Arents, 1973.
Correspondence, transfer from Rare Books, 1971.
Created by: KM
Date: Dec 1996
Revision history: 11 May 2010 - converted to EAD (MRC)
| Correspondence | |||||||||||
| SC 144 | John Stuart Groves; "Dear Miss Cooper" 1924, 1933, 1935 (3 items) | ||||||||||
| Manuscripts | |||||||||||
| SC 144 | Preface to The Prairie Years - typescript of early version, 7pp | ||||||||||
