I admit with some embarrassment, I did not even walk to the U of I Library today; I accepted a ride! I returned to perusing a set of 26 scrapbooks that were put together by a member of the Class of 1901, an extraordinary collection of news clips from the 1920s through the 50s dealing with Abraham Lincoln; I only made it through 10 of them. I was so engaged that lunch hour came and went without my noticing. In the afternoon, I spent a little time looking at just a microscopic example of the materials that comprise the Library's extraordinary collection of Carl Sandburg's papers. In March, 1961, I met Sandburg when he spoke at a reenactment of Lincoln's First Inaugural. Today, I held in my hand an interim typed draft of that speech with numerous editorial changes in Sandburg's hand. The day concluded back at the Estabrooks, where the foremost activity was the Red Sox-Yankees game. To demonstrate the Estabrooks' loyalties the food featured a lot of red and white items and all tasted great.
