PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept//TEXT (US::ViU::00881::Carl Sandburg Collection)//EN" "ViU00881.sgm" A Guide to the Carl Sandburg CollectionSandburg, Carl. 8375-gProcessed by Special Collections Dept. staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Courtney BoissonnaultFunded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. University of Virginia Library © 1997 By the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. All rights reserved.

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 Machine-readable finding aid derived from WordPerfect. [Date of source: 1997. Description is in English. Feb 17, 2004 PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept//TEXT (US::ViU::00881::Carl Sandburg Collection)//EN" "ViU00881.sgm" converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Feb 27, 2004 converted to conform to eadVIVA.dtd by vivastrict.xsl A Guide to the Carl Sandburg Collection A Collection in the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature 8375-g

Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library 1997 Special Collections Department Staff 1997 Courtney Boissonnault Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, #8375-g Descriptive Summary University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept.
Alderman Library University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 USA
Carl Sandburg Collection 1929-1935 8375-g 21 items English Administrative Information Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

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See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

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Carl Sandburg Collection, Accession 8375-g, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

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Purchase 1991 November 20

 Funding Note

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

 Item Listing Manuscripts Poem: " Grass, " by Carl Sandburg 1929 AMsS, 1 p.

[Handwritten by Albert Barrowsand inscribed to him by the author.]

 Poem: "Untitled," by Carl Sandburg 1931 Nov TMs, 1 p.

[With "Nov. 1931 Chicago" written beneath the text in Albert Barrows' hand.]

 Untitled Poem: "Edith is a flower of Albert's...," by Carl Sandburg n.d. TMs, 1 p. Letters Carl Sandburgto Albert Barrows 1929 Jun 27 TLS, 1 p.

[Thanks him for his letter and hopes to meet him sometime.]

 Carl Sandburgto "Friend Barrows" [ Albert Barrows] 1929 Jul 16 TLS, 1 p.

[Says Albert Barrows'letters are more poetic than his poems themselves.]

 Albert Barrowsto Carl Sandburg 1929 Jul 21 TL, 2 p.

[Explains his positions on humanity, civilization, and aesthetics, and defends his poems.]

 Carl Sandburgto "Brother Barrows" [ Albert Barrows] 1929 Aug 19 TLS, 1 p.

[Writes that his impressions of Albert Barrows' poems were only one man's, and hopes that one day they can sit down and talk things over.]

 Carl Sandburgto "Brother Barrows" [ Albert Barrows] 1930 Oct 1 TLS,1 p.(ec)

[Is reading Pilgrims at the Shrineand is sending another fool book this month (original letter tipped into Sandburg's Early Moon, Barrett PS3537.A618 E3 1930, Rare Books Division).]

 Albert Barrowsto "Brother Sandburg" [ Carl Sandburg] 1930 Oct 7 ALS, 2 p.

[Encloses an autobiographical tale whose writing was interrupted by illness, looks forward to receiving the book, with typed note from Proverbs on reverse.]

 "C.S." [ Carl Sandburg] to "A.B." [ Albert Barrows] 1930 AN, 2 p.

[Note describing the two as "battered strugglers" and enclosing photographs, with a note in Albert Barrows' hand indicating date.]

 "Carl" [ Carl Sandburg] to "Brother Barrows" [ Albert Barrows] 1931 Jan 25 TLS, 1 p.

[Thanks him for Potato Face drawings, says he will send poems, says his eyes and teeth are giving him trouble.]

 "Sandburg" [ Carl Sandburg] to "Friend Barrows" Albert Barrows [1931] Jun 25 ALS, 1 p.

[Thanks him for the Potato Face letter, will read the story.]

 "Carl" [ Carl Sandburg] to "Brother Barrows" Albert Barrows 1932 Mar 14 TLS, 1 p.

[Thanks him for his funny hospital letter, says it was forwarded to him at the University of Miami. ]

 "Carl" [ Carl Sandburg] to "Brother Barrows" [ Albert Barrows] 1933 Apr 10 TLS, 2 p.

[Conveys sympathy for Albert Barrows' pain, thanks him for prints and says he will send prints of the only two stereoscopic photographs of Lincoln known to exist.]

 "Sandburg" [ Carl Sandburgto "Brother Barrows" [ Albert Barrows] 1934 Jan 12 TLS, 1 p.

[Says he will be in San Franciscothe last week in February, and that Albert Barrowsand Ernst Baconshould read the January number of Fortunemagazine for a long poem there.]

 Howard Couperto Carl Sandburg 1934 Mar 5 TLS, 1 p.

[Letter marked "Copy," asks for permission to produce his choral adaptations of Carl Sandburg's verse.]

 "Opakapakaa" [ Carl Sandburg] to "Potato" [ Albert Barrows] 1934 Mar 28 Telegram, 1 p.

[Says "Aloha."]

 "Carlo" [ Carl Sandburg] to "Albert" [ Albert Barrows] 1934 Apr 14 TLS, 1 p.

[Trip made safely, visit to he and Edith [Barrows]high point, sending books.]

 "Carlo" [ Carl Sandburgto "Albert" [ Albert Barrows] 1934 Apr 16 TLS, 1 p.

[Thanks Albert Barrowsfor photographs, asks for copies for his publishers, encloses a letter from "one of our fellow strugglers" (see Howard Couper's of 1934 Mar 5) and mentions the Castine correspondence.]

 "Carlo" [ Carl Sandburg] to "Albert" Albert Barrows] 1934 Jun 1 TLS, 1 p.

[Says the typed sheets came, encloses a check for the typists' bill, says his main job here "drags and sags."]

 "Carl" [ Carl Sandburg] to "Albert" Albert Barrows 1934 Oct 1 TLS, 1 p.

[Hopes and prays Albert Barrows' shingles are getting better, sends "rudabaga aloha and smoke-and-steel love" to he and Edith [Barrows]. ]

 "Carl" [ Carl Sandburg] to "Albert" [ Albert Barrows] 1935 Mar 1 TLS, 1 p.

[Was reminded of Albert Barrowsand Edith [Barrows]by Lake Michigan's ice formations, sends photographs, and invites the Barrowsfor a visit.]