A Sandburg Stumper

[Rob Wick]

In the letter that Sandburg wrote to Lewis, he started out "Jefferson is the only other President of the USA I can think of who would draw out of me the same drudgery, and sustain me thru it, as Lincoln does." After the comment he made about Lincoln dying "at the right time" Sandburg wrote "somehow if Lincoln had rounded out a natural life his personality would have been or become the sort of legend and tradition Jefferson is."

One wonders what it would have been like if Sandburg has turned his attention ot Jefferson after finishing the Lincoln biography.

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Rob