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08-28-2019, 01:19 PM,
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Rob Wick
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RE: A Sandburg Stumper
Who wrote this to Carl Sandburg in 1938?
"Don't let the flight of time, the passage of the wild geese, the shortening of the daylight, or the coming of ice on the lake, at your feet, hurry this masterpiece. Dry bones don't get up in the valley and walk till the artists and the poets tell them to, and as your greatest work nears its end it must sing and rise to orchestral symphonic proportions. You are the only living man who can make Lincoln's biography rise up at the end and in full chorus. You may be the only American since Lincoln who could do this. So think of it as the Trojan Wars and yourself as Homer. The first part is great and the last part will be greater."
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Rob
Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.--Ida M. Tarbell
I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
--Carl Sandburg
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08-28-2019, 08:27 PM,
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Rob Wick
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RE: A Sandburg Stumper
Sorry gentlemen, but neither guess is correct. Randall and Sandburg didn't begin their friendship until after Abraham Lincoln The War Years was published (Randall wrote a review of it, and he later told F. Lauriston Bullard that he had been too easy on Sandburg). Faulkner did write a letter to Sandburg, but there is no record of when the letter was written, and it doesn't appear that Sandburg ever wrote back.
That leads to the next clue (and the last for the evening). Sandburg and this person were regular correspondents.
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Rob
Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.--Ida M. Tarbell
I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
--Carl Sandburg
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A Sandburg Stumper
