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10-11-2012, 11:31 PM
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RE: Carl Sandburg and Lincoln
Bill,

Have meant to answer this but other things keep getting in the way. Sandburg definitely enjoyed all the things that celebrity brought him. but he also remembered where he came from. In his diary, James G. Randall, who spent a couple of days staying with Sandburg in Harbert, wrote of Sandburg's handling of his celebrity:

One notes it with lack of swank and the presence of open-headed comfort in the Sandburg home. Mrs. Sandburg is a fine gracious woman full of vitality. Has a beautiful smile so does Carl. Her face is a combination of homely ruggedness and beauty. Wears old clothes—very old—around the house. He talked of old days—of his old teacher Philip Green Wright, of working on the Chicago Day Book, of army service in P.Rico in 1898.

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Rob

Abraham Lincoln in the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

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