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ARCHIBALD MACLEISH
A REGISTER OF HIS PAPERS
IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Prepared by
Grover Batts (1962), Michael J. McElderry (1983),
and Paul D. Ledvina (1989)
Revised by
Patrick Kerwin
Manuscript Division
Library of Congress
Washington, D.C. 1997
***
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
The papers of Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982), poet,
playwright, government official, and Librarian of Congress, were
given to the Library of Congress from 1939 to 1970 by MacLeish,
who also bequeathed a subsequent series of deposits, 1970-77, to
the Library in 1982. The Library received additional material,
1982-95, through gifts, transfers, deposit, and purchases from
various sources, including material formerly held by MacLeish's
estate.
Copyright in the unpublished writings of Archibald MacLeish
in these papers and in other collections of papers in the custody
of the Library of Congress has been dedicated to the public.
Photographs have been transferred to the Prints and
Photographs Division of the Library of Congress where they are
identified as part of these papers.
The Archibald MacLeish Papers are described in _Library of
Congress Acquisitions: Manuscript Division, 1982_, p. 29.
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Readers interested in consulting any of the division's
collections are advised to write or telephone the
Manuscript Reading Room at (202) 707-5387 before visiting.
Many processed and nearly all unprocessed collections are
stored off site, and advance notice is needed to retrieve
these items for research use.
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Linear feet of shelf space occupied: 25
Approximate number of items: 20,000
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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
1892, May 7 Born, Glencoe, Ill.
1915 A.B., Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
1916 Married Ada Hitchcock
1917-19 Served in United States Army
1919 LL.B., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
1920-23 Member of Boston, Mass., law firm, Choate, Hall
and Stewart
1923-28 Moved to Paris, France, devoting time to travel
and literature
1929-38 Editor, _Fortune_ magazine
1932 Pulitzer Prize in poetry
1939-44 Librarian of Congress
1941-42 Director, Office of Facts and Figures, War
Department
1942-43 Assistant Director, Office of War Information, War
Department
1944 American delegate, Conference of Allied Ministers
of Education, London, England
1944-45 Assistant secretary of state for cultural affairs
1945 Chairman, American delegation to London conference
to draft constitution for UNESCO
Participated in drafting of United Nations charter
at the San Francisco Conference
1946 Chairman, American delegation to the First General
Conference of UNESCO, Paris, France
First American member, executive council of UNESCO
1949-62 Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
1953 Pulitzer Prize in poetry
Bollingen Prize in poetry
National Book Award in poetry
1953-56 President, American Academy of Arts and Letters
1959 Pulitzer Prize in drama
1963-67 Simpson lecturer, Amherst College, Amherst, Mass.
1977 Presidential Medal of Freedom
1978 National Medal for literature
1982, April 20 Died, Boston, Mass.
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MAJOR WORKS OF ARCHIBALD MACLEISH
1924 _The Happy Marriage, and Other Poems_ (Boston and
New York: Houghton Mifflin. 79 pp.)
1925 _The Pot of Earth_ (Boston and New York: Houghton
Mifflin. 44 pp.)
1926 _Nobodaddy_ (Cambridge [Mass.]: Dunster House.
67 pp.)
1928 _The Hamlet of A. MacLeish_ (Boston and New York:
Houghton Mifflin. 45 pp.)
1930 _New Found Land_ (Boston and New York: Houghton
Mifflin. [52] pp.)
1932 _Conquistador_ (Boston and New York: Houghton
Mifflin. 113 pp.)
1933 _Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City_ (New York:
The John Day Company. 28 pp.)
_Poems_ (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin.
303 pp.)
1935 _Panic, a Play in Verse_ (Boston and New York:
Houghton Mifflin. 101 pp.)
1936 _Public Speech_ (New York: Farrar & Rinehart.
[40] pp.)
1937 _The Fall of the City_ (New York and Toronto:
Farrar & Rinehart. 33 pp.)
1938 _Air Raid_ (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company.
36 pp.)
1939 _America Was Promises_ (New York: Duell, Sloan &
Pearce. 20 pp.)
1940 _The Irresponsibles_ (New York: Duell, Sloan and
Pearce. 34 pp.)
1941 _The States Talking_. Published in _The Free
Company Presents_, compiled by James Boyd ([New
York]: The Free Company. pp. 219-237)
_The American Cause_ (New York: Duell, Sloan and
Pearce. 43 pp.)
1944 _The American Story_ (New York: Duell, Sloan and
Pearce. 231 pp.)
1948 _Actfive, and Other Poems_ (New York: Random
House. 63 pp.)
1950 _Poetry and Opinion; the Pisan Cantos of Ezra
Pound_ ([Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois
Press]. 52 pp.)
1952 _Collected Poems, 1917-1952_ (Boston: Houghton
Mifflin. 407 pp.)
_The Trojan Horse_ (Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
37 pp.)
1953 _This Music Crept by Me Upon the Waters_
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
38 pp.)
1958 _J.B._ (Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 153 pp.)
1959 _The Secret of Freedom_. Published in _Three
Short Plays_ ([New York]: Dramatists Play
Service, 1961]. 86 pp.)
1963 _The Collected Poems of Archibald MacLeish_
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 417 pp.)
1965 _The Eleanor Roosevelt Story_ (Boston: Houghton
Mifflin. 101 pp.)
1967 _Herakles_ (Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 91 pp.)
_An Evening's Journey to Conway, Massachusetts_
([Northampton, Mass.: Printed at the Gehenna
Press]. 20 pp.)
1968 _The Wild Old Wicked Man, and Other Poems_
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 45 pp.)
1971 _Scratch_ (Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 116 pp.)
1975 _The Great American Fourth of July Parade_
(Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh
Press. 51 pp.)
1976 _New and Collected Poems_ (Boston: Houghton
Mifflin. 493 pp.)
***
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
The papers of Archibald MacLeish cover the period from 1907
to 1981, with the bulk of the material dated between 1925 and
1970. Although MacLeish gave most of his literary manuscripts to
Yale University, the Library of Congress's collection is
particularly rich in its assemblage of correspondence reflecting
MacLeish's relationships with personal friends, literary
colleagues, and government associates and in its holdings of
MacLeish's notebooks containing the origins of some of his
greatest poems. The papers also include notes, worksheets, and
manuscript drafts which detail the development of several of
MacLeish's plays as well as document the political and moral
convictions which motivated the many speeches and radio
broadcasts he made both before and during World War II. Notes
and manuscripts also exist for a series of classroom lectures on
the form and condition of modern poetry conducted by MacLeish
while serving as Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at
Harvard University from 1949 to 1962.
Few items remain for the period prior to 1923 when MacLeish
left the Boston law firm where he was employed to live in Europe,
devoting his time to reading, travel, and writing poetry. The
earliest material in the Correspondence series is that between
MacLeish and his father, Andrew, while MacLeish was a student at
Hotchkiss School and Yale University. There are also several
letters from MacLeish's brother, Kenneth, whose death in action
during World War I greatly affected the poet. Of additional
interest are letters from personal friends, such as Robert Newton
Linscott, editor at Houghton Mifflin Company, and Charles Rumford
Walker, which reflect some of the personal and artistic struggles
MacLeish encountered during his years abroad.
MacLeish was one of a number of American literary expatriates
living in Europe between the wars, enjoying the advantages of a
favorable monetary exchange rate and the camaraderie of
sympathetic fellow artists and writers. Many of the friendships
which MacLeish made during the 1920's continued through later
years, and the Correspondence series contains substantive letters
from Kay Boyle, Ernest Hemingway, Gerald and Sara Murphy, and
Ezra Pound. Incoming letters are also included in the Subject
File from those who, along with MacLeish, advocated the release
of Pound from St. Elizabeth's Hospital, the mental institution in
Washington, D.C., where the poet had been confined after he was
declared incompetent to stand trial for treason at the end of
World War II. Other writers, artists, and scholars with whom
MacLeish corresponded include Julian P. Boyd, John Ciardi, James
Bryant Conant, Mary and Padraic Colum, Malcolm Cowley, John Dos
Passos, Roy Harris, Thomas Mann, Lewis Mumford, Harold George
Nicolson, Saint-John Perse, Carl Sandburg, Robert E. Sherwood,
Stephen Spender, John Steinbeck, Allen Tate, Louis Untermeyer,
Mark Van Doren, and Alexander Woollcott.
During the 1930's MacLeish became increasingly politicized
and was outspoken in support of an American commitment to protect
the liberal democratic principles which he felt were being
threatened by the rise of fascism in Europe. Several of his
verse plays for radio, such as _Air Raid_ (1938), _The American
Story_ (1944), and _The Fall of the City_ (1937), illustrate
these national or democratic themes. Material for these dramatic
voice productions is contained in the Literary File series.
MacLeish more fully explicated his political philosophy in a
series of prose pieces written for various journals and magazines
throughout the 1930s and 1940s as well as in the many radio
broadcasts and speeches he made during the same period. Notes
and manuscript drafts for the writings are contained in the
Literary File, while similar documents for the broadcasts and
speeches are located in the Speeches and Lectures File. The
latter series also contains copies and drafts for speeches which
MacLeish prepared for Franklin D. Roosevelt, Edward R.
Stettinius, Harry S. Truman, and other government officials.
From 1929 to 1938 MacLeish worked as a writer and editor for
_Fortune_ magazine, accepting the position from Henry Robinson
Luce on the understanding that his commitment to the new
publishing venture would be limited to the extent that, having
earned enough money to satisfy his needs, MacLeish could return
whenever he wished to his newly-purchased farm in Conway,
Massachusetts, to work on his own writing. The Correspondence
series contains a separate file for _Fortune_ magazine and
MacLeish's correspondence with Henry Robinson Luce. Other
colleagues and friends from the field of publishing with whom
MacLeish corresponded include Bruce Bliven, Cass Canfield,
Russell Wheeler Davenport, Charles H. Duell, Clifton Fadiman,
John Farrar, Ralph Ingersoll, Freda Kirchwey, Robert A. Lovett,
Eugene Meyer, Charles A. Pearce, Selden Rodman, and Edward Weeks.
In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt persuaded a
reluctant MacLeish to accept what proved to be a controversial
appointment as the ninth Librarian of Congress. MacLeish
implemented a thorough reorganization of the Library's
administrative offices, published the _Quarterly Journal of the
Library of Congress_, and established the Library's series of
poetry readings. Because of his managerial skills and political
involvement, MacLeish was also asked to serve, concurrent with
his Library position, as director of the Office of Facts and
Figures and assistant director of the Office of War Information
from 1941 to 1944. In 1944, after his resignation from the
Library, MacLeish was appointed assistant secretary of state for
cultural affairs, in which capacity he helped plan the
establishment of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization. Although the Subject File contains
headings for these government agencies, none of the files
contains extensive amounts of material. Official documents
produced by MacLeish in his capacity as public servant are more
likely to be represented in the central files or archival records
of the respective federal agency.
The Correspondence series contains correspondence and copies
of memoranda with many of MacLeish's associates, as well as with
public figures, both in and out of government, whom MacLeish came
to know during the war years. Correspondents of interest include
Dean Acheson, Francis Biddle, McGeorge Bundy, James Francis
Byrnes, Benjamin V. Cohen, William J. Donovan, J. C. Dunn,
Stephen T. Early, Luther Harris Evans, A. H. Feller, Felix
Frankfurter, Joseph C. Grew, Haldore E. Hanson, Harry Lloyd
Hopkins, Cordell Hull, Harold L. Ickes, R. Keith Kane, Robert E.
Kintner, Muna Lee, John Jay McCloy, David C. Mearns, Henry
Morgenthau, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Samuel
Irving Rosenman, Edward R. Stettinius, Adlai E. Stevenson, Henry
Lewis Stimson, Arthur Sweetser, Charles A. Thomson, Harry S.
Truman, Henry Agard Wallace, James P. Warburg, and Sumner Welles.
The Literary File contains an extensive set of notes for a
series of classroom lectures which MacLeish delivered at Harvard
University from 1949 to 1962. The purpose of these lectures was
to provide a theoretical and historical framework within which a
student could analyze the structure of modern poetry. MacLeish
emphasized the influence of certain poets as pivotal to the
development of modern poetry, and the notes he kept are quite
thorough, providing insight into his teaching techniques.
With time afforded him after his retirement from public
service, MacLeish published several books of poetry, produced
dramatic pieces for various media, and wrote prose works,
including social and political commentary. The Literary File
contains correspondence and manuscript material for collections
of poems such as _Actfive_ (1948) and _New and Collected Poems,
1917-1976_ (1976). Although files related to the individual
poems listed in this series include some worthwhile records, many
contain material of little value, in some cases nothing more than
copies of poems typewritten by MacLeish.
MacLeish continued to produce verse plays for stage, radio,
and television, and the Literary File contains important material
relating to these dramatic productions. Manuscript drafts and
worksheets are contained in the collection for MacLeish's
Pulitzer Prize-winning play, _J.B._ (1958). Similar material,
including correspondence, is also included for other dramas such
as _An Evening's Journey to Conway, Massachusetts_ (1967), _The
Great American Fourth of July Parade_ (1975), _Herakles_ (1967),
_Scratch_ (1971), _This Music Crept By Me Upon the Waters_
(1953), and _The Trojan Horse_ (1952). The disorganized state of
many of the manuscripts and worksheets contained throughout the
collection is the result of MacLeish's work habits. Describing
the state of disarray of a draft for one of his plays, MacLeish
wrote that it "can't be put together because I work like the crab
retreating ten steps to go forward two and thus getting
nowhere."(1)
The greatest literary treasure of the collection is a set of
notebooks kept by MacLeish from 1919 through the 1940s located in
the Literary File. Containing drafts of much of his poetry and
prose, the notebooks help trace the creation and development of
some of MacLeish's finest work. They also include notes about
his travels and readings and his reflections about other writers
and their conversations on literature.
A notebook kept by MacLeish in Paris for the years 1924-25
contains drafts and trial lines for poems later published in
_Streets in the Moon_ (1926), including "Ars Poetica," and a
partial version of the verse play, _The Pot of Earth_ (1925).
Additional works by MacLeish represented in other notebooks
include _The Happy Marriage_ (1924), _The Hamlet of A. MacLeish_
(1928), _New Found Land_ (1930), _Conquistador_ (1932), _Frescoes
for Mr. Rockefeller's City_ (1933), _Panic_ (1935), _Public
Speech_ (1936), _The Fall of the City_ (1937), _America Was
Promises_ (1939), and _Actfive_ (1948).
________
(1) _J.B._ drafts and worksheets, Box 27
***
DESCRIPTION OF SERIES
Container Nos. Series
1-23 Correspondence, 1907-81, n.d.
Letters received and copies of letters sent,
memoranda, telegrams, postcards, and miscellaneous
enclosures. Arranged alphabetically by
correspondent and chronologically therein.
24-39 Literary File, 1919-78, n.d.
Handwritten and typewritten drafts,
correspondence, trial lines, printed copies, notes
and worksheets, outlines, notebooks, proofs, and
miscellaneous items relating to plays, poetry,
prose pieces, screenplays and scripts, and books.
Arranged by type of material and alphabetically by
title therein, except for the notebooks, which are
arranged chronologically.
39-50 Speeches and Lectures File, 1939-78, n.d.
Handwritten and typewritten drafts,
correspondence, trial lines, printed copies, notes
and worksheets, outlines, proofs, and
miscellaneous items relating to classroom
lectures, interviews, and radio and television
broadcasts. Arranged by type of material and
chronologically therein, except for the classroom
lectures, which are arranged alphabetically by
course title.
50-56 Subject File, 1937-71, n.d.
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes of
meetings, printed matter, and miscellaneous items.
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
56-57 Miscellany, 1918-72, n.d.
Printed matter, manuscript drafts,
correspondence, miscellaneous personal records,
and notes. Arranged alphabetically by type of
material.
58-61 Additions, 1926-81, n.d.
Diary, notebooks, correspondence, a playscript,
and printed matter. Arranged by type of material
and chronologically therein.
***
CONTAINER LIST
Container Nos. Contents
CORRESPONDENCE, 1907-81, n.d.
Box 1 "A" miscellaneous, 1939-75, n.d. (4 folders)
Acheson, David, 1942-43, 1953
Acheson, Dean, 1940-71, n.d.
Ackerman, Carl W., 1941-44
Adamic, Louis, 1941-44
Adams, Donald, 1942
Agar, Herbert, 1940-44
Agee, James, 1936, 1942
Aldington, Richard, 1941
Aldrich, Winthrop W., 1940
Alice Mary, Princess, 1963-67
Allen, Hervey, 1939, 1945
Allen, James, 1942-44
Allen, Jay, 1942-45
Alsop, Joseph W., 1938-40
Anderson, Clinton, 1942-43
Angell, James R., 1943-45
Angle, Paul M., 1942-44
Arciniegas, German, 1945
Armstrong, Hamilton Fish, 1940-43, 1965
Atherton, Ray, 1940-45
Auchincloss, James C., 1942-44
Auden, Wystan H., 1939-40
Box 2 "B" miscellaneous, 1927-76, n.d. (9 folders)
Baillie, Hugh, 1944-48
Baker, Carlos, 1965
Baldwin, Roger, 1946, 1968
Box 3 Barnes, George A., 1942
Barrett, Edward, 1945
Barry, Philip, 1935-45
Barth, Alan, 1941-43
Bartlett, Edward L., 1945
Bartlett, Margaret, 1940-45
Baskin, Leonard, 1964
Bassiano, Marguerite de, 1940-41
Batt, William, 1944-45
Battle, Lucius D., 1963
Baukhage, H. R., 1945
Beach, Sylvia, 1933, 1940
Bell, Ulric, 1942-45
Belmont, Eleanor, 1944, 1969
Benet, Laura, 1944
Benet, Stephen Vincent, 1939-42
Benton, Thomas Hart, 1942
Benton, William, 1945-46
Berle, Adolf, 1940-45
Berlin, Irving, 1941
Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1945
Biddle, Francis, 1940-45, 1970
Bingham, Barry, 1941-45
Birkett, Norman, 1942
Black, Hugo L., 1942-44
Blitzstein, Marc, 1939
Bliven, Bruce, 1939-45, 1967
Bloom, Sol, 1945
Bonnet, Henri, 1945-46
Bowers, Claude G., 1944
Bowes-Lyon, David, 1943, 1954
Bowles, Chester, 1944
Bowman, Isaiah, 1944
Boyd, James, 1940-45
Boyd, Julian P., 1941-46, 1970-74
Box 4 Boyle, Kay, 1932-44
Braden, Spruille, 1940-45
Brandeis, Louis, 1939-40
Brickell, Herschel, 1942-46
Bromfield, Louis, 1939-42
Brooks, Van Wyck, 1940-49
Brown, John Mason, 1938, 1963-67
Brown, Prentiss M., 1941-42
Bruce, Edward, 1939-42
Buck, Pearl S., 1942, 1963
Buck, Philo M., Jr., 1944
Bullitt, William C., 1937-40
Bundy, Harvey H, 1941-45
Bundy, McGeorge, 1940-45, 1962-65, 1975
Burnett, Whit, 1942-45, n.d.
Burton, Richard, 1965, n.d.
Bush, Vannevar, 1944-45
Butler, Harold, 1942-45
Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1941-45
Byrd, Harry Flood (1887-1966), 1942
Byrd, Richard E., 1941
Byrnes, James Francis, 1945
"C" miscellaneous, 1922-76, n.d. (6 folders)
Box 5 Caetani, Marguerite, n.d.
Cairns, Huntington, 1943-45
Calder, Ritchie, 1944-47
Campbell, Ishbel MacLeish (sister), 1937
Canby, Henry Seidel, 1941-46
Canfield, Cass, 1940-45, 1965
Canham, Erwin D., 1942-43
Carlson, Richard, 1940-44
Carr, Lewis F., 1940-44
Carter, Hodding, 1939-40
Casals, Pablo, 1961, 1969
Celler, Emanuel, 1934-45
Chafee, Zachary, Jr., 1941, n.d.
Chambers, Whittaker, 1941
Chien, Tuan-Shang, 1941-45
Childs, Marquis W., 1942
Church, Frank, 1967-69
Ciardi, John, 1956-77
Clapp, Verner, 1945
Clapper, Olive, 1944-45
Clayton, William, 1944-45
Cohen, Benjamin V., 1940-45
Cohn, Alfred A., 1939-45
Colum, Mary, 1940-42
Colum, Padraic, 1939, 1957-59
Commager, Henry S., 1941, 1950, n.d.
Conant, James Bryant, 1935-46, n.d.
Connally, Tom, 1941-45
Corcoran, Thomas G., 1940-42
Corwin, Norman, 1939-45
Coulter, Douglas, 1944
Cousins, Norman, 1942-46
Cowles, Gardner, Jr., 1942-44
Cowles, John, 1942-44
Cowley, Malcolm, 1941-45, 1957, 1974
Cox, Oscar, 1942-46
Coy, Wayne, 1942
Cummings, Edward Estlin, 1948-49
"D" miscellaneous, 1937-66, n.d.
"Da-Dom" (2 folders)
Box 6 "Don-Dy" (2 folders)
Dahlberg, Edward, 1958
Damrosch, Walter, 1945
Dana, Marshall N., 1945
Daniels, Jonathan, 1940-45
Daniels, Josephus, 1941-44
Davenport, Basil, 1941
Davenport, Russell Wheeler, 1939-44
Davidson, Jo, 1944-45
Davis, Elmer, 1939-54
Davis, Norman H., 1941-42
Delano, Frederic A., 1941-44
Delano, William Adams, 1941-45
Denny, George V., Jr., 1942-45
Dern, John, 1939-43
De Voto, Bernard, 1940
Dickey, John, 1944-45, 1968
Dietz, Howard, 1941
Dillon, George, 1942
Donaldson, Norman, 1939-45
Donovan, William J., 1941-44
Dos Passos, John, 1939-68, n.d.
Douglas, Emily Taft, 1945
Douglas, Helen Gahagan, 1941-45
Douglas, Melvyn, 1941-42
Douglas, Paul F., 1945
Downes, Olin, 1945
Drake, Carlos, 1941
Drummond, Roscoe, 1945
DuBois, Cornelius, 1942-43
Dubos, Rene, 1967
Duell, Charles H., 1944
Dulles, John Foster, 1945
Dun, Angus, 1945
Box 7 Dunn, J. C., 1941-45
Durant, Will, 1945
Dwiggins, William A., 1945
"E" miscellaneous, 1939-58, n.d. (3 folders)
Eaker, Ira, 1945
Early, Stephen T., 1940-42
Eastman, Max, 1961
Eaton, Charles A., 1942-45
Edman, Irwin, 1943-44
Eichelberger, Clark, 1942-45
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 1953
Eisenhower, Milton S., 1942, 1968-75, n.d.
Eliot, George Fielding, 1942-44
Eliot, Thomas Stearns, 1950-56
Elliston, Herbert, 1942-45
Engle, Paul, 1939-43
Ernst, Morris L., 1941-46
Ethridge, Mark, 1944
Evans, Luther Harris, 1944-49
"F" miscellaneous, 1935-68, n.d. (4 folders)
Fadiman, Clifton, 1944-49
Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr., 1941-42
Box 8 Farrar, John, 1934-45
Fast, Howard, 1945
Feller, A. H., 1941-43
Ferber, Edna, 1934
Field, Marshall, 1943-45
Filene, Lincoln, 1945
Finletter, Thomas K., 1945
Finley, David, 1944-45
Fischer, Louis, 1943-45
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1939-44
Fisher, Ham, 1942
Fisher, Sterling, 1943-45
Fitts, Dudley, 1932-67
Flemming, Arthur S., 1944-45
Foote, Wilder, 1945
Ford, Ford Madox, 1933
Ford, Gerald R., 1977, n.d.
Ford, John, 1941
Forrestal, James V., 1942-45
Forster, Edward Morgan, 1947-49
Fortune, 1933-38
Foster, Reginald C., 1940-45
Frank, Waldo, 1941
Frankfurter, Felix, 1939-64, n.d.
Box 9 Freeman, Douglas S., 1941-45
Frost, Robert, 1933, 1957
Fulbright, J. William, 1944-45, 1956
"G" miscellaneous, 1937-77, n.d. (4 folders)
Gannett, Lewis, 1940
George, Walter F., 1942-45
Gildersleeve, Virginia, 1944-45
Graham, Frank P., 1942-44
Greene, Jerome D., 1940-41
Greene, Lorne, 1942
Greenwood, C. J., 1936-37
Grew, Joseph C., 1944-45
Grover, Allen, 1941-46
Gunther, John, 1941-45
"H" miscellaneous, 1921-78, n.d.
"Ha-He" (3 folders)
Box 10 "He-Hy" (3 folders)
Halifax, Edward, 1942-49
Hamburger, Philip, 1943-44
Hammarskjold, Dag, 1956-58
Hand, Learned, 1942-56
Hansen, Kurt Heinrich, 1948-49
Hanson, Haldore E., 1945
Harcourt, Alfred, 1940
Harris, Roy, 1941-43
Hassett, William D., 1941-42
Hayden, Carl, 1942
Hays, Brooks, 1945
Hayward, Walter B., 1942
Hecht, Ben, 1945
Hellman, Lillian, 1944
Hemingway, Ernest, 1927-58, n.d. (3 folders)
Hemingway, Pauline, 1942
Henderson, Leon, 1934, 1941
Herter, Christian A., 1942-44
Hill, Edwin C., 1944
Hill, Lister, 1942-45
Hindemith, Paul and Gertrude, 1952, n.d.
Hiss, Alger, 1945
Hoagland, Edward, 1966-74
Hobson, Laura, 1939-42
Hodgins, Eric, 1936-40
Box 11 Holmes, Julius C., 1945
Hoover, John Edgar, 1942-44
Hopkins, Harry Lloyd, 1937-44
Hoppenot, Henri, 1944
Houghton, Arthur, 1940-44
Houseman, John, 1937
Hovde, Bryn, 1945
Howe, Quincy, 1945
Hughes, Charles Evans, 1940
Hull, Cordell, 1941-44
Humphrey, Hubert H., 1967-68
Huse, Robert, 1941-43
Hutchins, Robert W., 1945-46
Huxley, Julian, 1956
"I" miscellaneous, 1940-69, n.d.
Ickes, Harold L., 1940-46
Ingersoll, Ralph, 1939-45
Inman, Samuel Guy, 1944
"J" miscellaneous, 1920-73, n.d. (2 folders)
Jackson, C. D., 1940-53
Jackson, Charles, 1943
Jackson, Robert H., 1940-41
Johnson, Louis, 1944
Johnson, Lyndon B., 1945, 1967, n.d.
Jones, Howard Mumford, 1944-45
Jones, Jesse H., 1944
"K" miscellaneous, 1936-69, n.d.
"Ka-Kor" (3 folders)
Box 12 "Kos-Ky" (2 folders)
Kane, R. Keith, 1941-44
Kazan, Elia, 1963, n.d.
Kazin, Alfred, 1956
Kefauver, Estes, 1941-45
Keller, Kent E., 1940
Kennedy, John F., 1961
Kent, Frank, 1941-44
Keynes, Maynard, 1941-44
Kimball, Fiske, 1945
Kintner, Robert E., 1941-44
Kirchwey, Freda, 1940-45
Kirk, Alan G., 1945
Kirstein, Lincoln, 1939-45
Kissinger, Henry A., n.d.
Kittredge, Frank A., 1945
Knopf, Alfred, 1945, 1977
Knox, Frank, 1941-42
Koussevitzky, Serge, 1944-48
Krock, Arthur, 1945, 1968
Kuniyoshi, Yasuo, 1942-43
"L" miscellaneous, 1937-69, n.d. (5 folders)
Laderman, Ezra, 1968
La Farge, Christopher, 1944
La Farge, Oliver, 1942
La Guardia, Fiorello H., 1941-42
Lamont, Thomas W., 1942-44, 1963
Box 13 Land, Emory S., 1941-42
Landis, James M., 1940-42
Lanux, Pierre de, 1939-42
Larsen, Roy E., 1940
Larsson, R. E. F., 1940
Laski, Harold J., 1939, 1949
Laughlin, Henry A., 1944
Laughlin, James, 1963-68
Lee, Muna, 1943-46, n.d. (2 folders)
Leger, Alexis Saint-Leger (Saint-John Perse),
1940-79
Leger, Fernand, 1941
LeHand, Marguerite, 1939-41
Leigh, Robert, 1945-46
Leland, Waldo, 1944-45
Lerner, Max, 1940-45
Levitas, S. M., 1945
Lewis, Wilmarth, 1940-44
Lewis, Wyndham, 1941-44
Lilienthal, David E., 1942, 1973-75, n.d.
Linscott, Robert Newton, 1924-62 (2 folders)
Box 14 Lippmann, Walter, 1937-63
Livingston, Alexander, 1945
Lomax, Alan, 1941
Lorraine, Marianne, 1941-42
Lovett, Robert A., 1935-45
Lowe, E. A., 1945
Lowell, Robert, 1963-66
Luce, Clare Boothe, 1942-45
Luce, Henry Robinson, 1939-65
Lydenberg, Harry M., 1941-45
Lyons, Louis, 1940-46, 1960
"M" miscellaneous, 1934-79, n.d.
"Ma-Mig" (7 folders)
Box 15 "Mil-My" (5 folders)
MacDowell, Mrs. Edward, 1944
MacKaye, Percy, 1939-41
MacLeish, Ada Hitchcock (wife), n.d.
MacLeish, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew (mother and father),
1907-45, n.d.
MacLeish, Bruce, 1945
MacLeish, Kenneth (brother), 1917, n.d.
MacLeish, Kenneth (son) and Carolyn, 1945,
1963-64, n.d.
MacLeish, Mary Hillard (aunt), 1945
McAdoo, Eleanor Wilson, 1944
McCloy, John Jay, 1941-45
McCord, David, 1940-45
McDermott, Michael J., 1945
McGovern, George, 1968-72
McMahon, Brien, 1945
McNutt, Paul V., 1942-45
Makins, Roger, 1945
Malamud, Bernard, 1944
Malone, Dumas, 1939
Malraux, Andre, 1940
Mann, Klaus, 1944
Mann, Thomas, 1940-49
Mansbridge, F. Ronald, 1942
Maritain, Jacques, 1940-45
Markel, Lester, 1944
Marshall, George C., 1944-48, 1956
Massey, Raymond, 1941-45
Mathiessen, F. O., n.d.
Maugham, W. Somerset, 1945
Maverick, Maury, 1945
Mearns, David C., 1943-76
Mellett, Lowell, 1940-45
Menefee, Selden, 1945
Meredith, Burgess, 1941-42
Meredith, William M., 1943-44, 1969, 1975
Merriam, Charles E., 1944
Merz, Charles, 1939-45
Box 16 Messersmith, George S., 1945
Meyer, Agnes, 1940-45
Meyer, Cord, 1945
Meyer, Eugene, 1941-45
Millis, Walter, 1941-42
Mills, Saul, 1940
Mizener, Arthur, 1937
Moore, Douglas, 1942-44, n.d.
Moore, Marianne, 1950-62
Moore, Merrill, 1932-42, 1954
Morgenstierne, Wilhelm Munte de, 1945
Morgenthau, Henry, 1941-45
Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1942, 1963-75
Morrison, Theodore, 1940
Moss, Arnold, 1945
Mowrer, Edgar A., 1942-45
Mowrer, Paul Scott, 1942-43, 1961
Muir, Willa, 1956-69
Mumford, L. Quincy, 1944
Mumford, Lewis, 1944-45, 1960, 1967
Mundt, Karl E., 1945
Murphy, Gerald and Sara, 1931-64
Murphy, Robert, 1945
Murray, James E., 1946
Myers, Howard, 1945-46
Myers, Richard E., 1940-45
"N" miscellaneous, 1937-68, n.d. (2 folders)
Nabokoff, Nicholas, 1939-44
Nabokov, Vladimir, 1951
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 1962
Nelson, Donald, 1941-42
Neuberger, Richard L., 1942-46
Nicolson, Harold George, 1935-38, n.d.
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1945-46, 1958
Nixon, Richard, 1969
Norton, W. W., 1943-45
Box 17 "O" miscellaneous, 1940-72, n.d. (2 folders)
Odets, Clifford, 1944
O'Donnell, John, 1942
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, n.d.
Osborn, Frederick H., 1942-45
Owen, Robert L., 1945
"P" miscellaneous, 1934-81, n.d. (5 folders)
Parsons, Geoffrey, 1943-44
Pasvolsky, Leo, 1945
Paul, Elliot, 1940
Pearce, Charles A., 1939-45
Pearson, Drew, 1944
Pearson, Norman H., 1937
Peattie, Margaret, 1943-45
Peattie, Roderick, 1944-45
Pegler, Westbrook, 1942
Peirce, Waldo, 1945
Pepper, Claude, 1941-45
Perkins, Frances, 1942-44
Box 18 Perkins, Maxwell E., 1931, 1945
Perkins, Milo, 1942-45
Perry, Ralph Barton, 1942-45
Perse, Saint-John _See_ Alexis Saint-Leger Leger
Peyre, Henri M., 1944
Phelps, William Lyon, 1940-42
Phillips, William, 1941
Pinchot, Mr. and Mrs. Gifford, 1941-42
Poore, Charles, 1941-45
Popov, Igor, 1967-74
Porter, Katherine Anne, 1949
Porter, Paul, 1944
Pottle, Frederick A., 1942-44
Pound, Dorothy, 1945, 1968
Pound, Ezra, 1926-67, n.d. (3 folders)
Price, Byron, 1941-45
Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., 1936-37
Pringle, Henry F., 1941-44
Pusey, Nathan M., 1958-63, n.d.
Putnam, Herbert, 1943
Putnam, James, 1940
"Q" miscellaneous, 1943-45
"R" miscellaneous, 1934-79, n.d. (7 folders)
Box 19 Rachwiltz, Mary de, 1959-75
Rayburn, Sam, 1942
Reid, Ogden and Helen, 1941-45
Reston, James, 1942-45, 1969, n.d.
Reynolds, Quentin, 1942
Rinehart, Stanley M., Jr., 1939-44
Roberts, Owen J., 1945
Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 1934
Rockefeller, David, 1968
Rockefeller, Nelson A., 1942-45
Rodman, Selden, 1940-45
Rohde, Ruth Bryan, 1945
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1941-49
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 1938-45
Roosevelt, James, 1941
Roosevelt, Nicholas, 1944
Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr., 1940
Root, Oren, Jr., 1941
Roper, Elmo, 1941-45
Rosenbach, A. S. W., 1942-44
Rosenberg, Anna M., 1941-42
Rosenman, Samuel Irving, 1941-45
Rosenwald, Lessing J., 1942-45
Ross, Charles, 1945
Ross, Harold W., 1945
Rosten, Leo, 1942-45
Rothchild, Edward S., 1941-42
Rowe, James H., 1941-42
Rowe, L. S., 1944-45
Ruml, Beardsley, 1944-46
Rusk, Dean, 1961
"S" miscellaneous, 1932-78, n.d.
"Sa-Sk" (7 folders)
Box 20 "Sl-Sz" (5 folders)
Sabath, A. J., 1941-42
Salamanca, Lucy, 1942-45
Saltonstall, Leverett, 1942-49
Sandburg, Carl, 1932-52
Santillana, Dorothy and Giorgio de, 1961-75, n.d.
Saroyan, William, 1940
Sarton, May, 1945, 1963-68, n.d.
Sawyer, Charles, 1945
Sayre, Francis B., 1942-43
Schlesinger, Arthur M. (1888-1965), 1943
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr. (b. 1917), 1966, 1973
Schuman, William, 1943, 1975-77
Schuster, M. Lincoln, 1942
Seferis, George, 1958-65, n.d.
Seldes, Gilbert, 1941-42
Selznick, David O., 1941-45
Serkin, Rudolf, 1969, n.d.
Seymour, Charles, 1939-41
Shapely, Harlow, 1942-46
Shaw, C. Howland, 1944
Sherwood, Robert E., 1940-45, 1954
Shipley, Ruth B., 1944-45
Shirer, William L., 1944-45
Shotwell, James, 1943-45
Shumlin, Herman, 1940-42
Shuster, George N., 1941-45
Simanov, Constantine, 1961
Sinclair, Upton, 1941-42
Sioussatt, St. George L., 1944
Skouras, Spyros P., 1944-45
Sloan, Samuel, 1939-44
Box 21 Smathers, William H., 1942
Smith, H. Alexander, 1945
Smith, Harold, 1941-45
Soong, T. V., 1940-41
Spender, Stephen, 1962, n.d.
Stanton, Frank, 1941
Stassen, Harold E., 1941-45
Steinbeck, John, 1940-45
Stettinius, Edward R., 1942-49
Stevens, Wallace, 1951
Stevenson, Adlai E. (1900-65), 1942-69
Stevenson, Adlai E., Jr. (b. 1930), 1975
Stewart, Donald Ogden, 1942-43
Stewart, James, 1945
Stimson, Henry Lewis, 1942-48
Stokowski, Leopold, 1940
Stout, Rex, 1944
Stowe, Lyman Beecher, 1941-42
Street, Julian, 1941-45
Studebaker, John, 1941-44
Sullivan, Mark, 1945
Sulzberger, Arthur Hays, 1945
Sweetser, Arthur, 1942-45
Swing, Raymond, 1941-45
Swope, Herbert Bayard, 1941-45
"T" miscellaneous, 1939-77, n.d. (4 folders)
Taft, Charles P., 1942-45
Taft, Robert A. (1889-1953), 1942-44
Tate, Allen, 1941-52, 1961
Box 22 Taylor, Deems, 1941-44
Taylor, Francis, 1944
Thompson, Dorothy, 1940-46
Thompson, Malvina C., 1942-45
Thomson, Charles A., 1940-46
Tinker, Chauncey B., 1943-45
Tolstoy, Ilia, 1942
Torre, Guillermo de, 1941
Trammell, Niles, 1941-45
Trout, Robert, 1937
Truman, Harry S., 1945-51
Tuchman, Barbara W., 1968, 1979
Tully, Grace, 1941-45
Turner, Ralph E., 1944
Tuttle, Emerson, 1939-45
Tydings, Millard E., 1941-42
"U" miscellaneous, 1941-46, n.d.
Udall, Stewart L., n.d.
Underwood, Pierson, 1940
Untermeyer, Louis, 1935-44, 1961
Utley, Clifton, 1945
"V" miscellaneous, 1937-76, n.d. (2 folders)
Vandenberg, Arthur H., 1945
Van Doren, Charles, 1955-59, 1975
Van Doren, Irita, 1944-45
Van Doren, Mark, 1940-71, n.d.
van Loon, Henrik Willem, 1939-42
Voorhis, Jerry, 1942-45
"W" miscellaneous, 1937-77, n.d. (7 folders)
Box 23 Wagner, Robert R., 1942-45
Walker, Charles Rumford, 1923-24, 1941, 1980, n.d.
Walker, Frank, 1942
Walker, John, 1944
Wallace, Henry Agard, 1941-45
Wallgren, Mon C., 1941-42
Wanger, Walter, 1940-45
Warburg, James P., 1941-45
Ward, Barbara, 1955, 1966
Warren, Robert Penn, 1945
Watson, Edwin M., 1942-43
Watson, Thomas J., 1944-45
Weeks, Edward, 1939-45
Weill, Kurt, 1942
Weiss, Louis S., 1939-45
Welles, Orson, 1944
Welles, Sumner, 1941-45
West, James E., 1942
Wheeler, Monroe, 1944-45
Wheelock, John Hall, 1945
White, Walter, 1942
White, William Allen, 1940
Wickard, Claude R., 1942
Wiese, Otis, 1939-40
Wilder, Thornton, 1942-51, n.d.
Wilkins, Roy, 1942
Williams, Eric, 1963, n.d.
Williams, Oscar, 1943-45
Williams, Wheeler, 1942
Williams, William Carlos, 1939-40, 1951
Willkie, Wendell L., 1942-44
Winant, John G., 1942-45
Winnick, Roy H., 1979, n.d.
Woollcott, Alexander, 1935-42
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1944
Wyzanski, Charles E., Jr., 1952-76, n.d.
"Y" miscellaneous, 1937-74, n.d.
Yale University, New Haven, Conn., 1934-44
"Z" miscellaneous, 1940-45
Unidentified, 1937-79, n.d.
LITERARY FILE, 1919-78, n.d.
Box 24 Books
_The American Cause_, 1941
"Changes in the Weather," proposed collection of
essays
"Paris Years," proposed autobiography
_Poetry and Opinion_, 1950
Selections for an anthology
Drama
_Aid Raid_, verse play for radio, 1938
_The American Story_, verse play for radio, 1944
Correspondence
Episodes
1-3 (3 folders)
Box 25 4-10 (7 folders)
Miscellany
_An Evening's Journey to Conway, Massachusetts_,
1967
_Conquistador_, verse play for radio, adapted by
D. G. Bridson, 1952
_The Fall of the City_, verse play for radio,
1937
Correspondence
Box 26 Translations, French and German
_The Great American Fourth of July Parade_,
verse play for radio, 1975 (2 folders)
"Henry," review for music
_Herakles_, 1967
Correspondence
Manuscript and typescript drafts
(2 folders)
Box 27 (1 folder)
Worksheets
_J.B._, 1958
Drafts and worksheets (2 folders)
Box 28 Motion picture proposal
Printed copy
_Panic: A Play in Verse_, 1935
_Scratch_, 1971
Correspondence
Galley proof
Manuscript and typescript drafts
Master copies
(2 folders)
Box 29 (6 folders)
Printer's copy
Rehearsal scripts
(1 folder)
Box 30 (5 folders)
Miscellany
Notes and worksheets
Box 31 Outlines
Set designs
_The Secret of Freedom_, play for television,
1959
_The States Talking_, verse play for radio, 1941
_This Music Crept By Me Upon the Waters_, 1953
_The Trojan Horse_, verse play for radio, 1952
_Union Pacific_, ballet, produced 1934
Untitled plays and fragments
Notebooks
1919-1920's (Cambridge and Paris notebooks),
notes and drafts of poems published in _The
Happy Marriage_ (1924) and material for
_Einstein_ (1929)
Box 32 1924-25 (Paris notebook), notes and drafts of
poems for _Streets of the Moon_ (1926),
including "Ars Poetica," "The Silent Slain,"
"The Immortal Helix," and "1892-19__" and
material for _The Pot of Earth_ (1925)
1926, notes and drafts for _The Hamlet of A.
MacLeish_ (1928) (3 vols.) and material for
_New Found Land_ (1930)
1926-1930's (Persia notebook) trial lines and
drafts, including some for _New Found Land_
1928-1930's, Notes and drafts, including
_Conquistador_ (1932), _Public Speech_
(1936), and _Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's
City_ (1933)
1929, Notes during Mexican trip for
_Conquistador_.
Late 1920's, Trial lines and notes, including
_Panic_ (1935), _Public Speech_, and "The
Woman on the Stair"
1933, Notes and drafts, including _Frescoes for
Mr. Rockefeller's City_ (1933)
Box 33 Late 1930's-late 1940's, Drafts and trial lines,
including _America Was Promises_ (1939) and
_Actfive_ (1948)
1948 (?), Notes and drafts
Undated, Drafts of plays, including _The Fall of
the City_
Poetry
Collections and selections
_Actfive and Other Poems_, 1948
_America Was Promises_, 1939 _See also
_Container 43, "America Was Promises"
_The Collected Poems of Archibald MacLeish_,
1963
_New and Collected Poems, 1917-76_, 1976
_Public Speech_, 1936
Poems
"Alien"
"Ars Poetica"
"At the Lincoln Memorial"
Box 34 "At the University Memorial in the Year 1976"
"Baccalaureate"
"The Ballad of Jabez Stone"
"The Ballad of the Devil Over the Water"
"Bird Watching"
"The Black Day"
"The Blow Flies"
"Bold Venture"
"Bronze"
"The Carrion Crow"
"Celestial Politics"
"Chartres"
"Colloquy for the States"
"Conversation in a Belfry"
"Conway Burying Ground"
"Correction"
"Critics on the Lawn"
"Definitions of Old Age"
"The Deserted Island"
"Discovery of This Time"
"Dozing on the Lawn"
"The Enchantment"
"Epiepithalamion"
"Faith"
"Family Group"
"For Remembrance"
"The Free Men's Song"
"Freedom's Land" (song lyric)
"Geography of This Time"
"A Good Man in a Bad Time"
"Hands"
"The Happy Marriage"
"Hebrides"
"The Hero of Hollywood"
"Hunters"
"Hypocrites"
"Immortal Autumn"
"In and Come In"
"The Infinite Reason"
"Kenneth"
"Kinds of Fire"
"Lines for a Prologue"
"Long Hot Summer"
"Mark Van Doren and the Brook"
"Mayan"
"Midsummer Dawn"
"Nat Bacon's Bones"
"National Security"
"New England Weather"
"Night Watch in the City of Boston"
"The Old Grey Couple (1)"
"The Old Grey Couple (2)"
"Old Photograph"
"Old Time Locals"
"The Old Time White House and the Bright New
Gate"
"Omniscience"
"Pablo Casals"
"Perhaps I've Not Seen Shelley Plain"
"Photograph Album"
"Poem for a Festival of Art at the Boston
Public Gardens"
"A Poet Speaks From the Visitors' Gallery"
"Population Explosion"
"The Pretty Girl Ballad"
"Private Character and Private Man"
"Reproach to Dead Poets"
"The Revenant"
"Seeing"
"The Sheep in the Ruins"
"The Spanish Dead"
"State Funeral: March 31, 1969"
"TV Commercial"
"A Talk With Laurens Hammond"
"Three Riddles With One Answer"
"The Thrush in the Gaelic Islands"
"To the Tune of Walsingham"
"Two Poems From the War"
"Two Women Talking"
"Voyage to the Moon"
Box 35 "Voyage West"
"What Killed the Bullfinch House on Beacon
Hill"
"White-Haired Girl"
"Years Ago"
"You, Andrew Marvell"
"The Young Dead Soldiers"
Unidentified
Printed copies
Prose
"About a Trespass on a Monument," _New York
Times_, 7 Dec. 1958
"The Age of Adolescence," _Boston Globe_,
19 Dec. 1973
"The Alternative," _Yale Review_, June 1955
"The American Writers and the New World," _Yale
Review_, Sept. 1941
"April Elegy," _Atlantic Monthly_, June 1945
"Archibald MacLeish Answers Fifteen Vital
Questions," _Look_, 14 July 1942
"The Art of the Good Neighbor," _Nation_,
10 Feb. 1940
"ASCAP and the Arts," n.d.
"The Beginning of Things," n.d.
"Books in Wartime," _New York Times_,
6 Dec. 1942
"The Conquest of America," _Atlantic Monthly_,
Aug. 1949
"The Cranbrook Show," n.d.
"Declaration of Faith," 1940
"Evangelism in Verse," n.d.
"Football Piece," n.d.
Forewords
For an exhibition of photographs by Therese
Bonney, 15 Nov. 1940
Book on Stephen Vincent Benet, 1978
Collection of prose pieces, 1977
"Age of Change," edited by Robert Wernick
_The Estate of Poetry_ by Edwin Muir
Box 36 _Fortress of Freedom_ by Lucy Salamanca
_Immediate Sun_ by Rosemary Thomas
Catalog of an exhibition by An American
Group, Inc., Jan. 1943
Catalog of the Stanley Family Exhibition,
Feb. 1944
"The Golden Calf," n.d.
"The Humanities and the Defense of the
Republic," n.d.
"The Inevitable War," n.d.
"Instructions of the Librarian of Congress,"
1 Oct. 1944
Interventions for _The Play of Herod_, 1969
Introductions
Byron Price at the Library of Congress,
[May 1945?]
Book of children's stories by Muna Lee
_Cultural Relations_ by Muna Lee
_Eloges and Other Poems_ by Saint-John Perse
_The Last Men of the Revolution_ by Elias B.
Hillard, edited by Wendell D. Garret
_Our Singing Country_ by Alan and John Lomax
_The Year of Peril_ by Thomas Hart Benton,
Mar. 1942
Prose
"Is Mr. Lincoln Dead?" n.d.
Jefferson (Thomas) Bicentennial, 1943
(3 folders)
"The Knowable and the Known," n.d.
"Library of Congress Employee Relations
Program," _Personnel Administration_,
May 1943
"Lilienthal's Atomic Energy," n.d.
"Looking Jefferson in the Eye," _New York
Times_, 17 June 1973
"Memorials Are for Remembrance," _Architectural
Forum_, Sept. 1944
"Mr. Nixon and the American Dream," n.d.
Box 37 "The Next Harvard," _Atlantic Monthly_, May 1941
"A Note on Alexis Saint-Leger Leger," _Poetry_,
Mar. 1942
"Notes on a Manifesto on Racial Equality,"
12 Sept. 1944
"Notes on the Teaching of Writing," n.d.
"Now Let Us Address the Main Question:
Bicentennial of What?" _New York Times_,
3 July 1976
On _The Irresponsibles_
On Walter Lippmann, 1977
"One American," n.d.
"The Poems of Emily Dickinson," n.d.
"Post-War Writers and Pre-War Readers,"
_New Republic_, 10 June 1940
"The Premise of Meaning," _American Scholar_,
Summer 1972
"Rediscovering the Simple Life," _McCall's,
_Apr. 1972
"Reflections on the Occasion of Mr. MacLeish's
Return From Persia," 1926
"Return From the Excursion," n.d.
Reviews
_Out of the People_ by J. B. Priestly
_Pastoral_ by Robert Hillyer
"The Ramparts We Watch"
"Riders on Earth Together, Brothers in Eternal
Cold," _New York Times_, 25 Dec. 1968
"Santayana, the Poet," n.d.
"Silencing the Times," _New York Times_,
18 June 1971
"South America III: Chile," n.d.
"South America IV: The Argentine," n.d.
"Sweet Land of Liberty," _Collier's_, 8 July
1955
"The Swing Right," _Civil Liberties_, Feb. 1969
"The Teacher's Faith," n.d.
"The Third Anniversary," n.d.
"A Time Without a Mirror"
"To Face the Real Crisis: Man Himself," n.d.
"Topsails and Conestogas," n.d.
"Tribute to John Hall Wheelock," 26 Nov. 1978
"The Venetian Grave," _Saturday Review_,
9 Feb. 1974
"Victory Without Peace," _Saturday Review_,
9 Feb. 1946
"We Have Purpose, We All Know It," _Life_,
30 May 1960 _See also_ Container 45
"The National Purpose," June 1960
"We've Been Pretending That We Didn't Know It's
Just One World," _San Francisco Chronicle_,
26 Apr. 1945
"What Is 'English'?," n.d.
"Who Killed Cockrobin?," n.d.
Box 38 "The Women's War," _Junior League Magazine_,
Sept. 1942
"Words Are Not Enough," _Nation_, 13 Mar. 1943
"The Worn at Heart," n.d.
"Yankee Skipper," _Yale Review_, June 1949
Untitled (2 folders)
Printed copies, 1934-74, n.d. (3 folders)
Screenplays and scripts
"The Eleanor Roosevelt Story," motion picture,
1965
Correspondence
Manuscript drafts
Box 39 "It Can't Last"
"John Keats"
"Magie Prison," 1967
Correspondence
Manuscript and typescript drafts
Miscellany
Morgan, Arthur, film project
"Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honors,"
telecast
"The Star-Spangled Banner," recordings script
for the Smithsonian Institution, 15 Feb. 1968
"This Is Your Enemy," introduction
War Loan Drive script for Orson Welles,
June 1944
SPEECHES AND LECTURES FILE, 1939-78, n.d.
Classroom lectures
English
180, An Approach to Poetry
190
283, Forms and Conditions of Modern Poetry
(1 folder)
Box 40 (1 folder)
Humanities
130, An Approach to Poetry
(4 folders)
Box 41 (1 folder)
130a, An Approach to Poetry
136
Chinese poetry lectures
John Keats lectures
Box 42 Ezra Pound lectures
Rainer Maria Rilke lectures
William Butler Yeats lectures
Unidentified lectures and notes
Interviews
1945
5 Jan., Johannes Steele broadcast
17 Jan., "March of Time" broadcast
1952, 10 Nov., recorded interview
1960, Jan., Hall, Donald, "An Interview With
Archibald MacLeish," _Horizon_
1972, Mott, Ben de, interview for _Paris Review_
1974, Oct., Heyen, William, and Anthony
Piccione, "A Music That Means: A Conversation
With Archibald MacLeish," edited by Philip L.
Gerber at Brockport Writers' Forum
1975, Kressler, David J., interview for Ph.D.
1976, 7 Mar., "A Conversation With Archibald
MacLeish," Public Broadcasting System, "Bill
Moyers' Journal"
Lectures
1944, 31 May, Walgren lecture, University of
Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
1947, 11 June, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H.,
outline for course on "Great Issues"
1952, July, Nashville, Tenn., on the teaching of
poetry
1958, Oct., "Poetry and Journalism," Seymour
lecture, Minneapolis, Minn.
Box 43 1967, 1 Nov., "The Teacher and the Lively Arts,"
Education Council for School Research and
Development
Undated
Holyoke Community College, Holyoke, Mass.,
seminar on the writer's art
"The Language of Poetry," paper prepared for
the Columbia Conference on "The Unity of
Knowledge"
"Human Values in the World Today" Mount
Holyoke College, Holyoke, Mass.
"Poetry and the Anti-World"
"Poetry and the Arable World"
Radio and television broadcasts
1939, 26 Dec., Broadcast address on Johann
Gutenberg
1940
16 Apr., Introductory remarks for CBS program
of folk music from the Library of Congress
4 May, "America Was Promises," CBS broadcast
_See also_ Container 33 _America Was
Promises_
24 Nov., "Art and Our Warring World," NBC
broadcast
1941, 13 Dec., "The Bill of Rights Now,"
Metropolitan Opera Program
1942
14 Feb., "This Is War"
1 Mar., "Propaganda: Good and Bad," NBC
Broadcast
14 Mar., Remarks on NBC, "Inter-American
University of the Air"
13 June, Closed circuit broadcast on gasoline
and rubber shortages
13 Sept., Intermission remarks on "CBS Summer
Symphony"
May-June, Proposals for NBC, "Inter-American
University of the Air"
1943
21 Aug., "For This We Fight," NBC broadcast
25 Dec., "The Meaning of Peace," Metropolitan
Opera Program
1944
25 July, "It Is What We Are," Edwin C. Hill
radio program
2 Dec., Remarks on the Metropolitan Opera
Program
1945
Feb.-Aug., "Our Foreign Policy," NBC
broadcast
Programs
1-10
Box 44 11-25 (2 folders)
May-Aug., Armed Forces Radio Service programs
(2 folders)
16 June, "Report From San Francisco," NBC
broadcast
16 Dec., "Can We Educate for World Peace?"
WGN-Mutual broadcast
Eulogy for Paul Valery, [1945?]
1946, 25 Sept., Remarks on UNESCO, NBC broadcast
1951, 30 Nov., Intermission remarks on Bernal
Diaz's _The True History of the Conquest of
New Spain_
Box 45 1960, 30 May, "The National Purpose," WBC
broadcast, _See also_ Container 37 "We Have
Purpose, We All Know It," _Life_
1962, 2 Aug., "The Dialogues of Archibald
MacLeish and Mark Van Doren," CBS telecast
1976, 4 July, On the American Revolution
Speeches
1939
12 Oct., "The American Experience,"
dedication of the Hispanic Room in the
Library of Congress
19 Oct., "Libraries in the Contemporary
Crisis," Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh,
Pa.
19 Nov., Remarks at the laying of the
cornerstone of the Franklin D. Roosevelt
Library, Hyde Park, N.Y.
"The Freedom to End Freedom," Survey
Associates
1940
Jan., "The Obligation of Libraries in a
Democracy," District of Columbia Library
Association
22 Feb., "The Librarian: His Name and
Nature," Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, Md.
9 Apr., "Writers and Scholars," American
Philosophical Society
31 May, "The Librarian and the Democratic
Process," American Library Association,
Cincinnati, Ohio
May, Dedication of Columbus mural in the
Hispanic Room of the Library of Congress
10 Sept., International Student Service,
International House, New York, N.Y.
13 Oct., New York and Brooklyn Federation of
Jewish Charities, Brooklyn, N.Y.
_See_ Container 24 _The American Cause_
23 Oct., Forum of the _New York Herald
Tribune_ _See_ Container 24 _The American
Cause_
19 Nov., "The Duty of Freedom," Printing
House Craftsmen
1941
12 Feb., "Lincoln in This Day," Canadian
Club, Ottawa, Canada
3 Apr., "New Land: New World," Common Council
for American Unity
7 June, "To the Class of '41," Commencement
address, Union College, Schenectady, N.Y.
11 June, "Prophets of Doom," Commencement
address, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, Penn.
Box 46 16 June, Commencement address, Wellesley
College, Wellesley, Mass.
19 June, Stanford University, Stanford,
Calif.
10 Sept., Message to P.E.N. Club, London,
England
10 Sept., U.S. Committee for the Care of
European Children
20 Nov., Council for Democracy, Boston, Mass.
2 Dec., "A Superstition Is Destroyed," dinner
in honor of Edward R. Murrow
15 Dec., Dedication of Thomas Jefferson Room
in the Library of Congress
1942
11 Feb., Urban League
13 Mar., Acceptance of death mask of Lord
Lothian for the Library of Congress
19 Mar., Freedom House, New York, N.Y.,
address
14 Apr., Russian War Relief luncheon, New
York
17 Apr., American Society of Newspaper
Editors, New York, N.Y.
20 Apr., "The Psychological Front,"
Associated Press, New York, N.Y.
6 May, American Booksellers Association, New
York, N.Y.
11 May, "What Government Asks of
Broadcasters," National Association of
Broadcasters, Cleveland, Ohio
May, "The Image of Victory," Commencement
address, Williams College, Williamstown,
Mass.
17 June, National Retail Dry Goods
Association, Chicago, Ill.
26 June, "Toward an Intellectual Offensive,"
American Library Association, Milwaukee,
Wisc.
Box 47 30 July, "American Opinion and the War,"
Cambridge University, Cambridge, England
15 Oct., Pour La Victorie dinner, New York,
N.Y.
22 Oct., Boston Book Fair, Boston, Mass.
4 Dec., New England Association of Colleges
and Secondary Schools, Boston, Mass.
10 Dec., Dinner in honor of George W. Norris
1943
8 Feb., Council on Foreign Relations,
Chicago, Ill.
Mar., "The Act of the Imagination,"
University of California, Berkeley, Calif.
28 May, "The Practice of Citizenship,"
Commencement address, Sarah Lawrence
College, Bronxville, N.Y.
22 Aug., Commencement address, Indiana
University, Bloomington, Ind.
1 Nov., Sinai Temple Forum, Chicago, Ill.
12 Dec., National Woman's Party
1944
24 Feb., "The American Experience," American
Museum of Natural History, New York, N.Y.
27 Feb., _Nation_ dinner in honor of Freda
Kirchwey
19 May, "The Power of the Spoken Word,"
American Academy of Arts and Letters and
the National Institute of Arts and Letters
7 June, Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, Mass.
28 June, Launching of the Liberty Ship "Ruben
Dario"
Box 48 31 July, University of Wisconsin, Madison,
Wisc.
8 Oct., "The People Are Indivisible,"
_Nation_ conference
16 Oct., Community War Fund
3 Nov., Civil Service Assembly, Chicago, Ill.
13 Nov., "Arts, Letters and Democracy"
28 Nov., Freedom House, New York, N.Y., award
12 Dec., Statement before the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee
1945
4 Jan., "Information for a People's Peace,"
United Nations Information Board
10 Jan., "Popular Relations and the Peace,"
Association of American Colleges, Atlantic
City, N.J.
18 Feb., "The American Certainty,"
Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts,
Sciences and Professions, New York, N.Y.
28 Feb., "The Problem of Developing Public
Understanding of the Proposals for United
Nations Organization," Americans United for
World Organization
3 Apr., Introductory remarks regarding the
United Nations
21 Apr., Americans United for World
Organization and The Free World Association
of Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.
31 May., Commencement address, National
College of Education
7 Aug., Washington Advertising Club,
Washington, D.C.
27 Dec., New School for Social Research,
New York, N.Y.
1946, 11 Jan., National Conference of the
Sciences, Professions, Arts and White Collar
Fields, New York, N.Y.
[1953?], On _The Irresponsibles_, Smith College,
Northampton, Mass.
1955
16 June, Harvard Alumni Association,
Cambridge, Mass.
20 Nov., Commemoration of the Centennial of
the death of Adam Mickiewicz, Hunter
College, New York, N.Y.
1956
6 June, Commencement address, Smith College,
Northhampton, Mass.
14 June, Dinner in honor of Felix
Frankfurter, Somerset Club, Boston, Mass.
1958, 22 Apr., Address on _J.B._, Yale
University, New Haven, Conn.
1960, 7 Oct., Yale Alumni Convocation, New
Haven, Conn.
1963, 22 Feb., University of the West Indies,
Mona, Jamaica
Box 49 1965
May, Dedication of Countway Library, Harvard
Medical School, Cambridge, Mass.
June, Commencement address, Smith College,
Northampton, Mass.
19 July, Memorial ceremony for Adlai E.
Stevenson, United Nations, New York, N.Y.
3 Dec., Address in honor of Roger Baldwin
1966
11 May, Pulitzer Prize awards, New York, N.Y.
11 June, Poetry Center
1967
12 June, Lincoln Center Festival, New York,
N.Y.
17 Sept., Tribute to Carl Sandburg, Lincoln
Memorial, Washington, D.C.
1969
17 May, Remarks at Leonard Bernstein's final
concert as Music Director of the New York
Philharmonic, New York, N.Y.
1970, 3 Oct., Dedication of Hampshire College,
Amherst, Mass.
1972, 5 Mar., Dedication of the Eleanor
Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N.Y.
1973, 7 Dec., Tribute to Mark Van Doren,
American Academy
1977
12 Apr., Smith College, Northampton, Mass.
17 Apr., Brown University, Providence, R.I.
5 Oct., International Poetry Forum
1978, 6 Apr., National Medal for Literature
award, New York Public Library, New York,
N.Y.
Undated
"Art Education and the Creative Process"
"Author as Educator," Adult Education
Association
Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass.
Century Association address
"Conversation With the Moon"
"The Crisis of the Diminished Man,"
University of California, Berkeley, Calif.
Dedication of Harvard's Hellenic Center,
Washington, D.C.
Dedication of the Robert Frost Library,
Amherst College, Amherst, Mass.
Dedication of the Scott Library, York
University, Toronto, Canada
"Education for Citizenship"
Eulogy for Douglas S. Moore
Freedom House, New York, N.Y., award
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. and
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester,
Mass.
Human rights award dinner
Monterey, Calif.
On Scottish pride
Poetry contest, Mount Holyoke College,
Holyoke, Mass.
"Recording for the Blind"
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, N.Y.
Tribute to John Hall Wheelock
Tulsa, Okla.
Speeches prepared for others
Grew, Joseph C., New Year's Day broadcast,
1 Jan. 1945
Ickes, Harold L., "The Future Is Our Own!" radio
broadcast, 4 July 1940
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
1940, 23 Oct., Campaign speech
1941
20 Jan., Inaugural address
Box 50 4 July, Independence Day address
11 Nov., Armistice Day speech
9 Dec., On preparation for war
1942, 3 Feb., "Statement to the Soldiers"
1943, Apr., Dedication of the Jefferson
Memorial, Washington, D.C.
1944
15 Jan., Inaugural address
26 Dec., State of the Union address
1945
1 Jan., United Nations Declaration
3 Mar., Free World Congress
10 Apr., San Francisco Conference, San
Francisco, Calif.
Stettinius, Edward R.
1944, Newsreel script for the State
Department
1945
22 Feb., Inter-American Conference on
Problems of War and Peace
20 Mar., Statement on the San Francisco
Conference
6 Apr., Americans United dinner
25 Apr., United Nations Conference
Stevenson, Adlai E., American Legion speech,
[1952]
Truman, Harry S.
1945
12 Apr., Proclamation on Franklin D.
Roosevelt's death
Proclamation on Japanese surrender
Introductions and texts for poetry readings
Untitled and unidentified
Printed copies
SUBJECT FILE, 1937-71, n.d.
Commission on Freedom of the Press, _The General
Report_
Drafts
Introduction
Box 51 Chapters 1-5 (5 folders)
Miscellany
Outlines
Printed copies
Contemporary Historians, Inc., "The Spanish Earth"
(film)
House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1948
Box 52 Leger, Alexis Saint-Leger
Library of Congress
Massine, Leonide, film project
Mill Reef Club, Antigua
Office of Facts and Figures
Committee on War Information
Correspondence
"History of the Office of Facts and Figures"
Minutes of meetings
Miscellany
Policies and procedures
Project proposals
Box 53 Publications
Office of War Information
Intelligence reports
Minutes of meetings
Miscellany
Policies and procedures
Perse, Saint-John _See_ Leger, Alexis Saint-Leger
Pound, Ezra (hospitalization)
Eliot, Thomas S.
Eisenhower, Milton S.
Fang, Achilles
Frost, Robert
Furniss, Robert M., Jr.
Geffen, Felicia
Hammond, Douglas
Hemingway, Ernest
Herter, Christian A.
Laughlin, James
MacGregor, Robert M.
Martinelli, Sheri
Meacham, Harry M.
Miscellany
Moore, Arthur V.
Overholser, Winfred
Rachewiltz, Mary de
Rogers, William P.
Scheiwiller, Vanni
State Department
Correspondence
Minutes of meetings
Miscellany
Box 54 Research documents and statements
United Nations
Dumbarton Oaks proposals
Amendments
Comments and suggestions
Box 55 Miscellany
Miscellany
San Francisco Conference, San Francisco, Calif.
Charter (2 folders)
Memoranda
Miscellany
Preamble to United Nations Constitution,
draft
Report to the President
Box 56 UNESCO
Correspondence
Memoranda and working papers
Minutes of meetings
Miscellany
Reports
University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
MISCELLANY, 1918-72, n.d.
Awards and certificates
Bibliographies
Biographical and genealogical papers
Correspondents other than MacLeish
Military records
Box 57 Newspaper clippings
Notes
Poems other than by MacLeish
Power of attorney, 30 Mar. 1944
Printed matter
Skull and Bones Club handbook, Yale University,
New Haven, Conn.
Writings other than by MacLeish
Benco, Nancy L., "Archibald MacLeish: The Poet
Librarian," _Quarterly Journal of the Library
of Congress_, July 1976
Ferrier, J. Morton, Jr., "Changes in the Content
and Technique of the Poetry of Archibald
MacLeish," May 1938
Malraux, Andre, "Le Camp de Chartres"
Szrulyovics, Ernest, "'The Conquistador' of
MacLeish"
ADDITIONS, 1926-81, n.d.
Box 58 Correspondence, 1963-81
Diary, 9 Mar.-29 Apr. 1926
Notebooks
1933-55 (8 vols.)
Box 59 1968-78 (6 vols.)
Box 60 1975-76 (2 vols.)
Undated (7 vols.)
Box 61 Printed matter, _Rockford College: A Retrospective
Look_ (1980)
Writings, _Herakles_ playscript, n.d.
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