A Sandburg Stumper

[Rob Wick]

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.

Best
Rob