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...deadline (the hour of Robert Lincoln's death) approached, 23 Lincoln scholars and members of the Library staff left a banquet hall and walked solemnly into a room in the Library annex. Among them was white-thatched Lincoln Historian Carl Sandburg, who had spent part of the evening singing songs of the Lincoln period to his colleagues. Steel doors swung open, and the collection, 194 black-backed volumes, stood revealed...
...Light on Lincoln (Sat. 3:30 p.m., CBS). A CBS Documentary Unit broadcast based on the unsealing (21 years after the death of Robert Todd Lincoln) of Lincoln's state papers. Speakers: Carl Sandburg; Illinois State Historian Jay Monaghan; University of Illinois Professor J. G. Randall; Director of the Chicago Historical Society Paul M. Angle; and Librarian of Congress Luther Evans...
Chicago Poet Carl Sandburg's admiring comment was: "And on the seventh day he rested...
...chat with Lincoln Biographer Carl Sandburg, who reported the President "looks like he's standing the racket well...
...Carl Sandburg's Prairie Years and War Years are drawn upon, as are the biographies by Lord Charnwood, Beveridge, Tarbell, etc. But some of the most vivid passages are from rarely read 19th Century sources, among them Donn Piatt's Memories (1887), Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the Scenes (1868). Sample glimpses...