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SANDBURG, CARL. A significant archive of Carl Sand

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SANDBURG, CARL
An archive of Carl Sandburg material, circa 1911-1912. The lot consists of four holographic poems and 42 (including duplicates of some poems) typescript poems, including 15 unique poems believed to be either unpublished or in variant form. Many of the poems have holographic titles and/or edits, and the lot also contains a holographic Stephen Crane poem in Sandburg's hand. Acquired from a descendant of a woman (Miss Madge Mathe, secretary to Daniel Hoan, city attorney), who Sandburg requested to make typed copies for literary submissions.

Together with Sandburg's writings are a series of dated envelopes addressed to Sandburg at Brisbane Hall, when the author was working for the Mayor of Milwaukee, along with rejection slips from American Magazine, The Independent, Harpers, Atlantic Monthly, Crowell (signed by Crowell), and McClurg. A number of the poems appear to have never been published, as indicated below. Moreover, a number of the more familiar poems, some of which appeared in Chicago Poems (New York, 1916), are variants of their final published forms.

The following poems in the archive appear to be unpublished: Ways of the Sea, In the Shadows, Vespers, Mists (not Mist), The First Star, We Will Meet Again, Four O'Clock in the Summer and From the Shore (known title of a different poem).

The following poems in the archive appear to be variants of published poems: The Harbor (variant of Milwaukee Harbor), At a Window, Broadway, Plowboy, The Hammer, and Between Two Hills (variant of Impressions), and February.

Refer to department or website for complete contents of the archive. Unpublished poems will be released in full upon appointment only.

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