ARCHIBALD MacLEISH - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 11/14/1976 - HFSID 177494
Sale Price $175.00
Reg. $220.00
ARCHIBALD MacLEISH
Three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Archibald MacLeish sends a note of
appreciation
Typed Letter signed: "Archibald MacLeish" in pencil, 1p,
4¾x7¾, personalized yellow note paper. No place, "11/14/76 "in pencil.
To: Mr. Allen: In full: "Dear Mr. Allen: About this season every year
I file letters and papers and inevitably read them again. I want to tell you and
your wife and your 82 friends once again how deeply I appreciate those good
wishes of the 7th of May spelled out year by year. It was a beautiful thing to
do and it touched me - touches me - more than I can say. Forgive this repetition
- like a cuckoo clock. Yours most faithfully" 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. Lightly creased. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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