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Who is this person?
05-21-2024, 06:18 AM
Post: #1966
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Final clue. Sandburg wrote the foreword to this man's book on the papers of Lincoln.

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05-21-2024, 06:22 AM
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David Mearns
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05-21-2024, 07:34 AM
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You got it, Roger! It was David C. Mearns, who served as manuscript curator at the Library of Congress for several years. He was also one of Sandburg's closest friends.

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