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Carl Sandburg Collection, Accession 8375-g, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
Purchase 1991 November 20
Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
[Handwritten by Albert Barrows and inscribed to him by the author.]
[With "Nov. 1931 Chicago " written beneath the text in Albert Barrows ' hand.]
[Thanks him for his letter and hopes to meet him sometime.]
[Says Albert Barrows' letters are more poetic than his poems themselves.]
[Explains his positions on humanity, civilization, and aesthetics, and defends his poems.]
[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.]
[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).]
[Encloses an autobiographical tale whose writing was interrupted by illness, looks forward to receiving the book, with typed note from Proverbs on reverse.]
[Note describing the two as "battered strugglers" and enclosing photographs, with a note in Albert Barrows ' hand indicating date.]
[Thanks him for Potato Face drawings, says he will send poems, says his eyes and teeth are giving him trouble.]
[Thanks him for the Potato Face letter, will read the story.]
[Thanks him for his funny hospital letter, says it was forwarded to him at the University of Miami . ]
[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.]
[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.]
[Letter marked "Copy," asks for permission to produce his choral adaptations of Carl Sandburg 's verse.]
[Says "Aloha."]
[Trip made safely, visit to he and Edith [Barrows] high point, sending books.]
[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.]
[Says the typed sheets came, encloses a check for the typists' bill, says his main job here "drags and sags."]
[Hopes and prays Albert Barrows ' shingles are getting better, sends "rudabaga aloha and smoke-and-steel love" to he and Edith [Barrows] . ]
[Was reminded of Albert Barrows and Edith [Barrows] by Lake Michigan 's ice formations, sends photographs, and invites the Barrows for a visit.]