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SANDBURG, CARL.

11 June 2008, 13:00 EDT
New York

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SANDBURG, CARL.

4 Autograph Letters Signed (“Carl Sandburg”), 4 pp, 4to, 8vo, and 12mo, Chicago and Kenilworth, IL, [December 2, 1933] to November 17, 1948, to Roger Barrett and Pauline Barrett, light creasing and toning throughout. Together with a 1937 Western Union telegram from Sandburg to Roger Barrett and small locket with picture of young child.

Sandburg writes Roger Barrett when the young man is away at Princeton, and later when he is serving as a member of the prosecution during the Nuremberg Trials. The letters to Pauline Barrett are generally birthday wishes. From November 17, 1948: “When the little boy Abe Lincoln wrote that script Oliver has in the original ‘Time, what an empty vapor ‘tis!’ the boy had the blues. Like you he saw many a day afterward of singing blue sky and shining earth.”

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