and griffith like a lot of artists in the 1930s was another one that said he was influenced by carl sandberg and wanted to incorporate sandberg's work and what he was doing, he even tried to hire sandberg to be a consultant on his film but sandberg was too expensive and wanted more want money so i think he found someone else. nonetheless griffith lincoln has nothing of the sandberg lincoln about it. he is actually a pretty bland and monotonous figure in dw griffith's film. he is your standard issue let's get everybody together kind of person and as one reviewer explained griffith or lincoln made quote a notable attempt to be fair to the two halves of our nation. like a lot of the abraham lincoln's pretrade in this earlier period or set up before carl sandberg had been writing lincoln and griffiths film was also a rather crude frontiersman. in one scene the president soon after arriving in washington flops down on the white house floor to take a nap. it was a very bland neutral and yes apparently fatigued lincoln who was portrayed in this film and i think that image of lincoln reflected the r

sandberg materials in their they were. the off-color stories. i was very excited. carl sandburg was a man of anye, so he did not include of the stories in his six volume biography of lincoln, but i have no taste whatsoever. included them in the green monster. they are not all in one spot and they are not indexed. if you want to get them, you have to read the whole thing. by the way he has a very fine book on lincoln's sense of humor that won a book prize last year and should have won the lincoln prize at the lincoln and soldiers foundation at gettysburg college. i think it was considered too short, and therefore was not eligible, which i think was unfortunate. is book last year was clearly the best book on lincoln that had been published. before i go into the announced , i would like to bring you up-to-date on the latest on lincoln scholarship on a specific subject, the authorship of the bixby letter. one of the most beloved of lincoln's documents is a letter of condolence that was sent to a dow named lydia bixby in boston of 1864. it was signed by lincoln. it is widely