CARL SANDBURG - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 10/22/1924 - HFSID 42882
Price: $450.00
CARL SANDBURG
Carl Sandburg sends a typed letter trying to set up a time to meet a
friend in New York.
Typed Letter Signed: "Carl Sandburg", 1p, 8½x5½. Chicago,
1924 October 22. On letterhead of the Chicago Daily News to Dr.
Guthrie. In full: "It is mighty good to have your letter. I hope
certain work that I am on will have slowed down about February or March so that
I'll be loose for New York then. I am writing William B. Feakins, who has charge
of my schedules, to see you about those months. Your letter is worth reading and
keeping, and I hope to answer it better sometime when I see you in Bouerie
locale. Faithfully yours." Sandburg, who wrote editorials for the
"Chicago Daily News" from 1918-1933, had moved to the city in 1913, and wrote
one of his first successful poems, "Chicago", about the city. In
addition to his poetry, Sandburg created masterful prose, his crowning
achievement being the monumental biography of Abraham Lincoln. The first
installment, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, was published in two
volumes in 1926, two years after he signed this letter. In 1940, he earned the
Pulitzer Prize in History for Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, four
volumes published in 1939. Lightly creased, pencil erasures beneath signature.
Overall, fine condition.
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