Carl Sandburg letters and postal card to Anita P. Forbes, 1920-1923
- Author
- Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967
- Physical Description
- 3 items
- Additional Creators
- Forbes, Anita P.
- Restrictions on Access
- Unrestricted access.
- Summary
- The collection consists of three typewritten, signed items, a postal card and two letters, from Sandburg to Anita P. Forbes: 12 June 1920, announcing that Smoke and Steel would be too long for an anthology, with a poetic closing; 17 Jan. 1922, including a light-hearted comment about an error she made in her anthology, and suggestions for a dinner party; 17 March 1923, acknowledging her letter, and hoping to see her in Hartford.
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- Note
- In Rare Books and Manuscripts, University Libraries, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA (#1977-0099R/VF Lit)
- Source of Acquisition
- Purchased from Anita Forbes Baumbach, 1977.
- Biographical or Historical Sketch
- Carl Sandburg was born to immigrant parents in Illinois. Leaving school after the eighth grade, he worked a succession of odd jobs, and spent time as a hobo before volunteering to fight in the Spanish-American War. He attended college for free as a veteran, never taking a degree, but developing an interest in writing poetry. He found success as a poet and journalist in Chicago. The elemental power of his poetry, his unique, free-verse style, and his populist subject matter made him popular with America's masses as well as critics, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1951. He also wrote the popular Rootabaga Stories, two epic Pulitzer Prize-winning biographies of Abraham Lincoln, and children's stories; later in life, he toured as a folk-singer, distinguishing himself as a musician as he had as a poet, journalist, author, biographer, and historian.
- Binding notes
- Housed in ShareBox 086
boxShare086 GST/P/2/1 c.1 (Archival/Manuscript Material) bound in ShareBox 086
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