BIB_ID
184773
Accession number
MA 5469
Creator
MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982.
Display Date
[1960].
Credit line
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden.
Description
1 item (10 p.), unbound ; 27.7 cm
Notes
Autograph notation at the conclusion of the essay "I would say this was my typing and / my writing. Looks like the American / Purpose written for "Life" / A MacLeish / 7-14-71."
Typescript notation above the title "by Archibald MacLeish / Mill Reef, Antigua / West Indies Federation / (After April 20, Conway, / Mass..)."
Typescript notation above the title "by Archibald MacLeish / Mill Reef, Antigua / West Indies Federation / (After April 20, Conway, / Mass..)."
Provenance
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Summary
Typescript draft with autograph corrections and revisions of an article which appeared in the May 30, 1960 issue of LIFE magazine, with the title "We have purpose...we all know it."
Housed in
Black cloth drop-spine box (30.8 cm)
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