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ARCHIBALD MacLEISH - CONTRACT DOUBLE SIGNED 08/25/1975 - HFSID 327951

The Pulitzer Prize winning author signs twice on a contract from the ASCAP dated 1975 Contract signed: "Archibald MacLeish" in text and "Archibald MacLeish", 8½x11. 2 pages (integral leaf). November 11, 1975.

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ARCHIBALD MacLEISH
The Pulitzer Prize winning author signs twice on a contract from the ASCAP dated 1975
Contract signed: "Archibald MacLeish" in text and "Archibald MacLeish", 8½x11. 2 pages (integral leaf). November 11, 1975. Contract between Hackett and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers to license his stand-up ("non-dramatic public performances") and any musical numbers which he owns ("songs, fragments or arrangements, melodies or selections..."), expiring December of 1985. In the 1930s, ARCHIBALD MacLEISH (1892-1982) began writing verse concerned with social issues: Conquistador (1933 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry), Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City (1933), Public Speech (1936) and America Was Promises (1939). Librarian of Congress (1939-1944) and FDR's Assistant Secretary of State (1944-1945), MacLeish was Chairman of the U.S. delegation to the London Conference that drew up the UNESCO charter (1945). He was later awarded the 1953 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry (Collected Poems 1917-1952) and the 1959 Pulitzer Prize in Drama (J.B.) and a Tony Award that same year for Best Play (J.B.). He won an Academy Award for Documentary Feature (The Eleanor Roosevelt Story) in 1965 and was presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977. Professor at Harvard from 1949-1962, MacLeish was a lecturer at Amherst from 1963-1967. Slightly toned. Slight surface creases. Ink stamps. Corners lightly worn and creased. Otherwise, fine condition.

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