(05-04-2019 04:07 PM)Rob Wick Wrote:  Laurie is correct. The Library of Congress has the largest number of collections that have Sandburg material. I'm at work, so I don't have the exact number, but when I get home I can get it.

Edit: The LOC has 111 collections that has some sort of Sandburg material. Some of the more important would include the David C. Mearns Papers (Mearns was manuscript curator at the LOC and a very close friend of Sandburg. In fact, when Sandburg was in Washington he stayed with Mearns) as well as the James G. and Ruth Painter Randall Papers.

Now, what is the second one?

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Rob

(05-04-2019 08:55 PM)Rob Wick Wrote:  That is the second facility. It has 55. Compared to the University of Illinois, which only has 38 collections. Of course, those collections are generally ALL Sandburg (either from Carl or his daughters or others).

The top ten facilities with Sandburg material are:

1. The Library of Congress (111)
2. The New York Public Library (55)
3. The University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana (38)
4. University of Chicago (34)
5. Houghton Library, Harvard (32)
6. University of Virginia (31)
7. Michigan State University Libraries (30)
8. Yale University/Beinecke Library (28)
9. Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum (27)
10. Wisconsin Historical Society and Library (22)

Not all of the facilities would be worth the reseacher's time, given that there are 99 facilities with only one collection, many of which are simply a single letter written by or to Sandburg.

Good job Laurie.

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Rob