Archibald MacLeish papers

LC control no.	mm 82030932
Type of material	Archival Manuscript/Mixed Formats (Collection)
Personal name	MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982. » More like this
Main title	Archibald MacLeish papers, 1907-1981 (bulk 1925-1970).
Related names	MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982. J.B. 1958. » More like this MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982. Pot of earth. 1925. » More like this MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982. Streets in the moon. 1926. » More like this
Description	20,000 items. 61 containers, plus 1 oversize. 25 linear feet.
Access advisory	Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.
Biography/History note	Poet, playwright, government official, and Librarian of Congress.
Summary	Correspondence reflecting MacLeish's relations with friends, literary colleagues, and government associates; notebooks (1919-1940s) containing drafts of poetry and prose, notes on travels and readings, and reflections on other writers and literature; notes, worksheets, and ms. drafts of plays, speeches and radio broadcasts, and speeches written for Franklin D. Roosevelt, Edward R. Stettinius, and Harry S. Truman; notes and ms. for classroom lectures on modern poetry given by MacLeish as Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University (1949-1962); and other papers. Includes mss. for the verse play, The Pot of Earth (1925), poems contained in Streets in the Moon (1926), the play titled J.B. (1958), and numerous other writings. The papers also document MacLeish's experiences as a literary expatriate in Europe between the wars, the politicization of his writings in the 1930s, his work (1929-1938) as a writer and editor for Fortune magazine, and his service as Librarian of Congress (1939-1944) and in several other government positions in the 1940s. Correspondents include Dean Acheson, Francis Biddle, Bruce Bliven, Julian P. Boyd, Kay Boyle, McGeorge Bundy, James Francis Byrnes, Cass Canfield, John Ciardi, Benjamin V. Cohen, Mary Colum, Padraic Colum, James Bryant Conant, Malcolm Cowley, Russell Wheeler Davenport, William J. Donovan, John Dos Passos, Charles H. Duell, J. C. Dunn, Stephen T. Early, Luther Harris Evans, Clifton Fadiman, John Farrar, A. H. Feller, Felix Frankfurter, Joseph C. Grew, Haldore E. Hanson, Roy Harris, Ernest Hemingway, Harry Lloyd Hopkins, Cordell Hull, Harold L. Ickes, Ralph Ingersoll, R. Keith Kane, Robert E. Kintner, Freda Kirchwey, Muna Lee, Robert Newton Linscott, Robert A. Lovett, Henry Robinson Luce, Thomas Mann, John Jay McCloy, David C. Mearns, Eugene Meyer, Henry Morgenthau, Lewis Mumford, Gerald Murphy, Sara Murphy, Harold George Nicolson, Charles A. Pearce, Ezra Pound, Selden Rodman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Samuel Irving Rosenman, Saint-John Perse (Alexis Saint-Léger Léger), Carl Sandburg, Robert E. Sherwood, Stephen Spender, John Steinbeck, Edward R. Stettinius, Adlai E. Stevenson, Henry Lewis Stimson, Arthur Sweetser, Allen Tate, Charles A. Thomson, Harry S. Truman, Louis Untermeyer, Mark Van Doren, Charles Rumford Walker, Henry Agard Wallace, James P. Warburg, Edward Weeks, Sumner Welles, and Alexander Woollcott. Family correspondents include MacLeish's father, Andrew, and his brother, Kenneth.
Notes	Photographs: transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Collection material in English. MSS30932
Finding aids	Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms997016>
Acquisition source	Bequest, deposit later converted to bequest, and gift, Archibald MacLeish, 1939-1982. Other deposit, exchange, gifts, purchase, reproduction, and transfers, 1934-1995.
Additional formats	Selected correspondence, memoranda, writings, and other papers also available through the Library of Congress Web site, Freedom's Fortress The Library of Congress, 1939-1953.
Subjects	Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971--Correspondence. » More like this Biddle, Francis, 1886-1968--Correspondence. » More like this Bliven, Bruce, 1889-1977--Correspondence. » More like this Boyd, Julian P. (Julian Parks), 1903-1980--Correspondence. » More like this Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992--Correspondence. » More like this Bundy, McGeorge--Correspondence. » More like this Byrnes, James F. (James Francis), 1882-1972--Correspondence. » More like this Canfield, Cass, 1897-1986--Correspondence. » More like this Ciardi, John, 1916-1986--Correspondence. » More like this Cohen, Benjamin V.--Correspondence. » More like this Colum, Mary--Correspondence. » More like this Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972--Correspondence. » More like this Conant, James Bryant, 1893-1978--Correspondence. » More like this Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989--Correspondence. » More like this Davenport, Russell W. (Russell Wheeler), 1899-1954--Correspondence. » More like this Donovan, William J. (William Joseph), 1883-1959--Correspondence. » More like this Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970--Correspondence. » More like this Duell, Charles H. (Charles Halliwell), 1905-1970--Correspondence. » More like this Dunn, J. C. (James Churchill), 1871-1955--Correspondence. » More like this Early, Stephen T. (Stephen Tyree), 1889-1951--Correspondence. » More like this Evans, Luther Harris, 1902-1981--Correspondence. » More like this Fadiman, Clifton, 1904-1999--Correspondence. » More like this Feller, A. H. (Abraham Howard), 1904-1952--Correspondence. » More like this Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965--Correspondence. » More like this Grew, Joseph C. (Joseph Clark), 1880-1965--Correspondence. » More like this Hanson, Haldore, 1912-1992--Correspondence. » More like this Harris, Roy, 1898-1979--Correspondence. » More like this Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961--Correspondence. » More like this Hopkins, Harry L. (Harry Lloyd), 1890-1946--Correspondence. » More like this Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955--Correspondence. » More like this Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952--Correspondence. » More like this Ingersoll, Ralph, 1900-1985--Correspondence. » More like this Kane, R. Keith (Richmond Keith), 1900-1974--Correspondence. » More like this Kintner, Robert E. (Robert Edmonds), 1909-1980--Correspondence. » More like this Kirchwey, Freda--Correspondence. » More like this Lee, Muna, 1895?-1965--Correspondence. » More like this Linscott, Robert N. (Robert Newton), 1886-1964--Correspondence. » More like this Lovett, Robert A. (Robert Abercrombie), 1895-1986--Correspondence. » More like this Luce, Henry Robinson, 1898-1967--Correspondence. » More like this MacLeish, Kenneth, 1894-1918--Correspondence. » More like this Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955--Correspondence. » More like this McCloy, John J. (John Jay), 1895-1989--Correspondence. » More like this Mearns, David C. (David Chambers), 1899-1981--Correspondence. » More like this Meyer, Eugene, 1875-1959--Correspondence. » More like this Morgenthau, Henry, 1856-1946--Correspondence. » More like this Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990--Correspondence. » More like this Murphy, Gerald, 1888-1964--Correspondence. » More like this Murphy, Sara--Correspondence. » More like this Nicolson, Harold, 1886-1968--Correspondence. » More like this Pearce, Charles A., 1906-1970--Correspondence. » More like this Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972--Correspondence. » More like this Rodman, Selden, 1909-2002--Correspondence. » More like this Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962--Correspondence. » More like this Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945--Correspondence. » More like this Rosenman, Samuel I. (Samuel Irving), 1896-1973--Correspondence. » More like this Saint-John Perse, 1887-1975--Correspondence. » More like this Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967--Correspondence. » More like this Sherwood, Robert E. (Robert Emmet), 1896-1955--Correspondence. » More like this Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995--Correspondence. » More like this Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968--Correspondence. » More like this Stettinius, Edward R. (Edward Reilly), 1900-1949--Correspondence. » More like this Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965--Correspondence. » More like this Stimson, Henry L. (Henry Lewis), 1867-1950--Correspondence. » More like this Sweetser, Arthur, 1888-1968--Correspondence. » More like this Tate, Allen, 1899-1979--Correspondence. » More like this Thomson, Charles A. (Charles Alexander), 1893-1961--Correspondence. » More like this Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972--Correspondence. » More like this Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977--Correspondence. » More like this Van Doren, Mark, 1894-1972--Correspondence. » More like this Walker, Charles R. (Charles Rumford), 1893-1974--Correspondence. » More like this Wallace, Henry A. (Henry Agard), 1888-1965--Correspondence. » More like this Warburg, James P. (James Paul), 1896-1969--Correspondence. » More like this Weeks, Edward, 1898-1989--Correspondence. » More like this Welles, Sumner, 1892-1961--Correspondence. » More like this Woollcott, Alexander, 1887-1943--Correspondence. » More like this Harvard University--Faculty. » More like this Library of Congress. » More like this Fortune. » More like this American literature. » More like this American periodicals. » More like this Authors, American--Europe. » More like this Authors--Political and social views. » More like this Poetry, Modern. » More like this World War, 1939-1945--United States. » More like this Dramatists. Librarians of Congress. Poets. Public officials.
Local shelving no.	0328L Oversize 0112L Small backlog (Unprocessed ac. 23,333) Small backlog (Unprocessed ac. 24,052)
Repository	Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home>
Links	Freedom's Fortress. The Library of Congress, 1939-1953: <http://memory.loc.gov:8081/ammem/collections/freedoms_fortress> Finding aid: <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms997016> Finding aid (PDF): <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms997016.3>