Alan Jenkins (AC 1924) Carl Sandburg Collection ca. 1938-1970

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Alan Jenkins (AC 1924) Carl Sandburg Collection ca. 1938-1970

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Jenkins was a Congregational pastor who formed a friendship with poet, novelist and folk singer Carl Sandburg. Collection contains correspondence between Sandberg and Jenkins, articles on Sandburg by Jenkins, other news clippings, photographs, notes, and related letters from Sandburg's literary contemporaries.

3 archives boxes; (1.5 linear ft.)

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Amherst College Archives and Special Collections

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SNAC Resource ID: 6321506

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Jenkins, Alan, Rev.

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Jenkins, James Alan, 1903-1971

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Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) was an American poet, novelist, folk singer and author of a major biography of Abraham Lincoln. James Alan Jenkins (1903-1971) was a member of the Amherst College Class of 1924. He was pastor of the First Congregational Church, Elkhart, Indiana (1936); Galesburg (Illinois) Congregational Church (1943-1953); and First Congregational Church of Royal Oak, Michigan (1953-1971). He formed a friendship with Carl Sandburg, wrote on Sandburg and served ...

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Starr, Thomas I. (Thomas Irwin), 1903-1965

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Amherst College. Class of 1924. Jenkins.

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Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967

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Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) was an American author, editor and poet. He won three Pulitzer prizes, two for his poetry and the third for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. From the guide to the Carl Sandburg Collection, 1924-1954, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) American poet, novelist and historian, Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for Abraham Lincoln: the War Years and the other for The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg ...