SANDBURG, Carl. (1878-1967). An archive containing 54 letters: (36 TLS, 6 ALS, 1 ANS), variously signed (usually "Carl" or "Carl Sandburg"), some letters with autograph postscripts; 1 five-page carbon typescript signed (a preface to a novel by his correspondent), 1 autograph quotation signed; nearly all to Sandburg's friend and protegé Kenneth Dodson, whose novel Away All Boats he helped publish, mostly Flat Rock, North Carolina, 30 October 1944 -- 10 February 1966 (mostly 1945-51). Together approximately 60 pages, 4to and 8vo, most with original envelopes. [With:] Carbons of Dodson's letters to Sandburg, Christmas cards, letters from publishers and family members, and related documents. Together approximately 86 items. SANDBURG AS LITERARY MENTOR An archive which offers an insightful glimpse into the life and mind of one of the most influential American poets and biographers of the 20th century. In the fall of 1944, Sandburg is shown excerpts from a letter written by Dodson (serving on a naval vessel in the Pacific) and promptly informs him that his letters were "extraordinarily vivid, the larger part of them unforgettable." Sandburg even asks if he might adapt some of Dodson's work for his novel Remembrance Rock. Eventually Sandburg decides to cast Dodson as a character in the novel under the name "Kenneth Mackenzie MacDougal." He encourages Dodson's nascent literary aspirations and throws his considerable literary muscle behind Dodson's first book, writing publishers on Dodson's behalf. When Away All Boats is finally published, he pens a stellar review. On April 14, 1949, Sandburg advised the younger man: "You have been places and touched people. You are a man of a thousand stories. Find a framework. Then write it. Then overwrite it and cut it down. Let no day pass without writing it. When the going is good with you, your sentences march and hammer and sing low and what is called style is there in a simple perfection. Some of those paragraphs in the epilogue of Rem Rock I will keep rereading as long as I live. You have only to go to your memories and to the wellsprings of your own heart for what is termed material. You have an eye for the vivid and can render it sparely. You can make telling phrases and compress great teaching in a few sentences. Most of whatever you need to be taught will have to come out of your own loving and toilsome practice....I have known newspaper staffs where a saying went 'The way to be a Star Reporter is to break all the rules.' I heard Steinbeck say regarding Of Mice and Men, 'I began with an equation and after that the story wrote itself.' Paganinni had a formula: toil, solitude, prayer... Maugham crosses up Forster on how to write a novel and both heave Walter Scott into the ashcan. Shakespeare wrote a certain amount of trash -- because his theater had to have a new play next Tuesday. Enough of this -- for this time. Ramble thru a couple of books I'm sending you but don't go scholastic...."
SANDBURG, Carl. (1878-1967). An archive containing 54 letters: (36 TLS, 6 ALS, 1 ANS), variously signed (usually "Carl" or "Carl Sandburg"), some letters with autograph postscripts; 1 five-page carbon typescript signed (a preface to a novel by his correspondent), 1 autograph quotation signed; nearly all to Sandburg's friend and protegé Kenneth Dodson, whose novel Away All Boats he helped publish, mostly Flat Rock, North Carolina, 30 October 1944 -- 10 February 1966 (mostly 1945-51). Together approximately 60 pages, 4to and 8vo, most with original envelopes. [With:] Carbons of Dodson's letters to Sandburg, Christmas cards, letters from publishers and family members, and related documents. Together approximately 86 items. SANDBURG AS LITERARY MENTOR An archive which offers an insightful glimpse into the life and mind of one of the most influential American poets and biographers of the 20th century. In the fall of 1944, Sandburg is shown excerpts from a letter written by Dodson (serving on a naval vessel in the Pacific) and promptly informs him that his letters were "extraordinarily vivid, the larger part of them unforgettable." Sandburg even asks if he might adapt some of Dodson's work for his novel Remembrance Rock. Eventually Sandburg decides to cast Dodson as a character in the novel under the name "Kenneth Mackenzie MacDougal." He encourages Dodson's nascent literary aspirations and throws his considerable literary muscle behind Dodson's first book, writing publishers on Dodson's behalf. When Away All Boats is finally published, he pens a stellar review. On April 14, 1949, Sandburg advised the younger man: "You have been places and touched people. You are a man of a thousand stories. Find a framework. Then write it. Then overwrite it and cut it down. Let no day pass without writing it. When the going is good with you, your sentences march and hammer and sing low and what is called style is there in a simple perfection. Some of those paragraphs in the epilogue of Rem Rock I will keep rereading as long as I live. You have only to go to your memories and to the wellsprings of your own heart for what is termed material. You have an eye for the vivid and can render it sparely. You can make telling phrases and compress great teaching in a few sentences. Most of whatever you need to be taught will have to come out of your own loving and toilsome practice....I have known newspaper staffs where a saying went 'The way to be a Star Reporter is to break all the rules.' I heard Steinbeck say regarding Of Mice and Men, 'I began with an equation and after that the story wrote itself.' Paganinni had a formula: toil, solitude, prayer... Maugham crosses up Forster on how to write a novel and both heave Walter Scott into the ashcan. Shakespeare wrote a certain amount of trash -- because his theater had to have a new play next Tuesday. Enough of this -- for this time. Ramble thru a couple of books I'm sending you but don't go scholastic...."
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