Carl Sandburg collection of Alan Jenkins, ca. 1938-ca. 1970.

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Carl Sandburg collection of Alan Jenkins, ca. 1938-ca. 1970.

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The collection contains letters between Sandberg and Jenkins, articles on Sandburg by Jenkins (typescript, clippings and reprints) and other newsclippings and materials on Sandburg. Also included are Jenkins notes on Thomas Irwin Starr and Philip Green Wright. There is an extensive file of photographs of Sandburg, Jenkins and Starr and a file of letters related to Sandburg from Sandburg's literary contemporaries.

3 archive boxes (1.5 linear ft.)

Amherst College. Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7667525

Amherst College. Library

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Jenkins, Alan, Rev.

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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

Amherst College. Class of 1924. Jenkins.

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

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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 ...

Wright, Philip Green, 1861-1934

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