Carl Sandburg and Lincoln

[Rob Wick]

Roger,

That's pretty neat. I wonder if Harbert has a large Swedish population.

Bill, I'm not sure if he would have thought that or not. I really think at heart he was a poet, so it's hard to say whether he would rank his poetry higher than his prose. Nothing I've come across yet has given me an answer. Just a quick addition to this. Wayne Temple told me (and I'd read in other places) that the one major disappointment that Sandburg had was that he didn't win the Nobel Prize for Literature. In fact, when John Steinbeck won, he reportedly said “Of course I am glad to get it. But I wish it had gone to Sandburg. Damn it. He is America!”

Joe, that's a really good story. Did he have much to say to you?

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Rob