A Guide to the Carl Sandburg Collection Sandburg, Carl. 8375-g

A Guide to the Carl Sandburg Collection

A Collection in the
Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature
Accession number 8375-g

University of Virginia Library

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

Processed by: Special Collections Department Staff

Repository

University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept. Alderman Library University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 USA

Collection Number

8375-g

Title

Carl Sandburg Collection 1929-1935

Extent

21 items

Creator

Location

Language

English

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

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

Acquisition Information

Purchase 1991 November 20

Funding Note

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

Significant Persons Associated With the Collection

Albert Barrows
Albert Barrows'
Carl Sandburg
Edith [Barrows]
Ernst Bacon
Howard Couper

Significant Places Associated With the Collection

Chicago
Lake Michigan
San Francisco

Item Listing

Manuscripts

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

[Handwritten by Albert Barrows and 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 Sandburg to Albert Barrows
1929 Jun 27
TLS, 1 p.

[Thanks him for his letter and hopes to meet him sometime.]
Carl Sandburg to "Friend Barrows" [ Albert Barrows ]
1929 Jul 16
TLS, 1 p.

[Says Albert Barrows' letters are more poetic than his poems themselves.]
Albert Barrows to Carl Sandburg
1929 Jul 21
TL, 2 p.

[Explains his positions on humanity, civilization, and aesthetics, and defends his poems.]
Carl Sandburg to "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 Sandburg to "Brother Barrows" [ Albert Barrows ]
1930 Oct 1
TLS, 1 p. (ec)

[Is reading Pilgrims at the Shrine and is sending another fool book this month (original letter tipped into Sandburg's Early Moon , Barrett PS3537.A618 E3 1930, Rare Books Division).]
Albert Barrows to "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 Sandburg to "Brother Barrows" [ Albert Barrows ]
1934 Jan 12
TLS, 1 p.

[Says he will be in San Francisco the last week in February, and that Albert Barrows and Ernst Bacon should read the January number of Fortune magazine for a long poem there.]
Howard Couper to 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 Sandburg to "Albert" [ Albert Barrows ]
1934 Apr 16
TLS, 1 p.

[Thanks Albert Barrows for 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 Barrows and Edith [Barrows] by Lake Michigan 's ice formations, sends photographs, and invites the Barrows for a visit.]