signed Unbound
1953
by Sandburg, Carl
8.5"x4.5" cut sheet. Dated "Flat Rock NC 4/3/53." Sandburg thanks his correspondent, Prof Arthur L Scott of the Univ of Illinois, for sending his paper "on the Henry James vogue. You wrap him up... and arrive at his number." Sandburg explains he hasn't the time to write "several pages from the evocations of your paper" but "Lincoln's letter of Feb 7, 1846 to John J Hardin... has more precision and subtlety... than any novel of HJ. Ramble through it." Signed in ink "Carl Sandburg." Sandburg has made one ink hand correction to a word. Hardin was a member of the Whig Party in the House. Scott was one of the academics whom Sandburg corresponded with frequently.The (truncated)