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09-19-2023, 04:50 PM,
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Rob Wick
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RE: A Sandburg Stumper
No Googling, please.
In 1948, Carl Sandburg received a letter from a young historian discussing a picture of a particular person associated with Lincoln. In the letter, this historian quoted at length from a letter sent by a third person also associated with Lincoln. The third person wrote the second, "I want your Photograph--I want it at once--There is use in your saying you 'will probably send it to me--'I must have it--I cant do without it and I don't intend to do without it."
To be correct, first, who is the young historian and second, who are the two people involved in the letter?
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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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09-21-2023, 12:37 PM,
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Rob Wick
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RE: A Sandburg Stumper
Quote:Were either of the two letter writers personally associated with Lincoln?
Yes.
Quote:Was their a romantic connection between the second and third letter writers?
No.
Clue: The person from whom the photo was wanted told the letter writer that he had never had a photo taken before.
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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
