The Archibald MacLeish Collection consists of writings, correspondence, a scrapbook, and a handful of personal papers documenting aspects of the literary career of the Pulitizer Prize winning poet and dramatist. The papers span the dates 1914-82.

The collection is arranged in three series;Writings, Correspondence, andPersonal Papers, plus one box of Oversize material.

Series I,Writings (Boxes 1-17), is divided into the subseriesBooks, Poetry, andArticles and Essays.Books, the largest subseries, is housed in Boxes 1-15 and is subdivided into sections for Poetry, Plays, and Prose, each alphabetically arranged by title.

Manuscript drafts exist for seven of the ten works of poetry found in the collection and documentation is generally better for later works than for earlier ones. The collection contains just reviews forThe Pot of Earth (1925),Nobodaddy (1926), andPoems: 1924-33 (1933). Holograph and typescript drafts ofConquistador (1932), an epic on the Spanish conquest of Mexico for which MacLeish won his first Pulitzer Prize, are found in the papers, together with a typescript ofCollected Poems, 1917-1952 (1952), the work that earned the author his second Pulitizer Prize. Complete drafts also exist forPublic Speech (1936),America Was Promises (1939),Songs for Eve (1954), andThe Human Season: Selected Poems 1926-1972 (1972). Information is most complete for"The Wild Old Wicked Man" & Other Poems (1968), for which the collection contains two notebooks, two typescript drafts, and three sets of galley proofs.

A similar pattern holds in the Plays section of Series I. The documentation forPanic (1935),The Fall of the City (1937), andAir Raid (1938) is sparse, while that for MacLeish's later plays is more complete. The collection contains single drafts forThe Trojan Horse (1952) andScratch (1971) and multiple drafts forThis Music Crept by Me Upon the Waters (1953),J.B. (1958),The American Bell (1962), andHerakles (1967).The American Bell, the author's celebration of American independence, was first performed in Philadelphia on July 4, 1962. For additional information on the historical background of the production, see the Julian P. Boyd correspondence, Box 18, folders 330-32.J.B., a verse drama based on the Book of Job, earned MacLeish his third Pulitizer Prize. Some four boxes of early drafts, drafts of the Houghton Mifflin edition of the play, of the original Yale production, of the Broadway production directed by Elia Kazan, and of subsequent productions are included in the collection, together with articles about the play, photographs of the Yale and British Guiana productions, reviews, and royalty statements.

Archibald MacLeish's prose books are found in Boxes 10-15. The collection contains a review ofA Time to Speak (1941) and draft fragments forThe American Cause (1941). Several drafts ofPoetry and Experience (1960), a study of poetry;The Eleanor Roosevelt Story (1965), a television script; andA Continuing Journey (1968, a collection of previously published essays), are found in the series.

The Poetry section of Series I (Box 16) holds a notebook, 3 folders of unidentified poems, and 69 folders of identified poems. Twenty-two were included in "The Wild Old Wicked Man" & Other Poems and 5 inSongs for Eve. Some 34 poems exist only in holograph, another 15 only in typescript, 5 only in their published forms, 14 in multiple formats, and 1 in calligraphic form. Published versions for a total of 6 poems are included: "The Black Day: To the Memory of Lawrence Duggen," "Cartoon," "For Amy Lowell," "In my Thirtieth Year," "Poem for a Festival of Art at the Boston Public Gardens," and "What Riddle Asked the Sphinx." About two-thirds of the poems have been corrected by the author and 21 are found in multiple versions, including "Dr. Sigmund Freud Discovers the Sea Shell," "Hotel Breakfast," and "The Ship in the Tomb." Among other poems of note are discarded drafts of "The Wisconsin-Nevada Axis," about red-baiting Senators McCarthy and McCarran, and "The Young Dead Soldiers," a tribute to Richard H. Myers, the deceased son of friends.

Box 17 houses a variety of articles, essays, speeches, and similar material. Of particular note are MacLeish's introduction toPermit Me Voyage by James Agee, papers on the prologue toJ.B., statements on the death of Ernest Hemingway, and two speeches given at Yale alumni dinners.

Series II,Correspondence (Boxes 18-19), contains alphabetically arranged letters, most written to MacLeish, from a variety of correspondents. The majority concern early productions ofJ.B., whose world premiere was held at Yale on April 22, 1958.

TheJ.B. material includes correspondence concerning publication of the play, revisions of the verse drama prior to its first productions, early production efforts, overseas productions, translations of the play into German and Italian, and fan mail. Information about commercial publication of J.B., production contracts, and royalties is found in the Houghton Mifflin Company and William Morris Agency correspondence. Several individuals, including John Ciardi, F. Curtis Canfield, Elia Kazan, and Laurier Lister offered comments about the play and made suggestions for text changes. The eminent critic John Ciardi was particularly enthusiastic. In a September 10, 1957, letter containing suggestions for changes in the text, he praises the play's magnificence and states that he is ready "to swear in advance to anything you do, to go pilgrim to your shrine, and to pledge my sword against the forces of darkness." His review of the published version of the play in the March 8, 1958 issue of theSaturday Review (Box 9, folder 110), titled "The Birth of a Classic," praisesJ.B. as "great poetry, great drama, and...great stagecraft."

The abortive attempt by the Phoenix Theatre to produce the play is discussed in a series of 1957 letters of T. Edward Hambleton and Herman Shumlin. As early as August 1956, F. Curtis Canfield, dean of the Yale University School of Drama, asked MacLeish about the possibility of staging the play at Yale and, with the collapse of the Phoenix Theatre effort in December 1957, he received permission to produce it at the University. In several 1958 letters Canfield discussed possible revisions in the text and his hope to produce the play on Broadway. Barely one week after its world premiere he wrote MacLeish to thank him, because in "one stroke, by giving us permission to doJ.B. here, you did more for the Drama School than anyone has done for it in many a year." The Broadway production ofJ.B. is discussed in the correspondence of Alfred De Liagre, producer of the play, and Elia Kazan. Their letters contain numerous comments on the play's text and its casting.

In the summer of 1957 Eva Hesse of Munich was given permission to translateJ.B. into German and was appointed Houghton Mifflin's agent for the German rights to the play. Her letters contain reports on her translating progress, plans for the first German production of "Spiel um Job" at the 1958 Salzburg Festival, and news of subsequent productions. The Salzburg production, directed by Professor O. E. Schuh of Berlin's Theater am Kurfuerstendamm, displeased Hesse and Dr. Peter Suhrkamp of Suhrkamp Verlag, MacLeish's German publisher. In an August 16, 1958 letter, she calls the production dishonest, provincial, and stupid, while Suhrkamp, writing a week later, states that Schuh made unilateral changes in the translation and incorrectly treated "Spiel um Job" as a religious mystery play. Letters of Sergio Morando, Mrs. Paolo Ojetti, Iris Origo, and Luigi Squarzini discuss the translation ofJ.B. into Italian and its 1958 production at San Miniato. Laurier Lister's and Margery Vosper's correspondence concerns the 1961 London production, one that both De Liagre and Aubrey Blackburn (Box 19, folder 433) considered disappointing and lacking in vitality.

Eva Hesse translated Ezra Pound's "Women of Trachis" into German, and a dozen letters written between August 1957 and January 1963 contain comments on him. The subject of the Julian P. Boyd correspondence is the 1962son et lumiere production of "The American Bell." Boyd's letters contain comments on the historical accuracy of the manuscript, a discussion of events leading to independence, and a typescript of an article intended for publication in theSaturday Evening Post, "There was a Tumult in the City: But did the Liberty Bell Ring that Day?" Lawrence Mason, assistant professor of English at Yale, 1916-20, discusses publication plans forTower of Ivory (1917), MacLeish's first poetry collection for which Mason wrote the introduction. He also writes in a long July 19-24, 1918 letter of the ringing of the bells in New Haven at news of "Foch's great Counter Offensive," of his conviction that Germany must be totally defeated, and of his despair about the future of the country after the war. "You are lucky to be out of this barren country: 'no gentleman's land' is deadlier than 'no man's land'." Several 1937-38 letters between MacLeish and Arthur Mizener concern an exhibition of MacLeish's books at Yale and Mizener's work on a MacLeish bibliography.

The collection also contains a small quantity of letters, most written during the 1920s and early 1930s, by well-known literary figures that include comments on MacLeish's poetry. Correspondents include John Peale Bishop, T. S. Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Louis Galantiere, Wyndham Lewis, Amy Lowell, John Masefield, Adrienne Monnier, Marianne Moore, and Carl Sandburg. John Peale Bishop, for example, praisesNew Found Land andConquistador, and Louis Galantiere discussesThe Hamlet of A. MacLeish. Amy Lowell in a six-page February 1924 letter discusses poetry and offers her views of modernist poets T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, and E. E. Cummings. She describes Moore as "a nice girl, but, wherever she was born, she is the thin-lipped, inhibited New England spinster." Lowell concedes that Moore may have some good poetry in her, "she is very shrewd when you talk to her - but her efforts to make herself virile and strong, to be, in fact, something she is not, have killed her." Lowell states that she is saying all this "largely because I think I discern in you a dangerous tendency to over-respond to theories."

Other correspondents of note include Maxwell Anderson, Grace Allen Bangs, Henry R. Luce, Ben Shawn, and Henry P. Van Dusen.

The papers contain relatively few letters written by Archibald MacLeish, most of which are carbons. Scattered copies of MacLeish's letters concerning J.B. are found in the correspondence of Alfred De Liagre, T. Edward Hambleton, Houghton Mifflin Company, Elia Kazan, Sergio Morando, Luigi Squarzini, and Margery Vosper. The largest group of original MacLeish letters were written to Elizabeth Choate, daughter of Charles Francis Choate, Jr. of Choate, Hall and Stewart. The letters discuss poetry and sometimes include samples of his work.

Series III,Personal Papers (Boxes 20-21), holds a variety of papers about MacLeish, including an identity card and an obituary. It also includes a report on the death of Kenneth MacLeish, who was shot down over Schoore, Belgium on October 14, 1918, with snapshots of the site;A Catalog of the First Editions of Archibald MacLeish by Arthur Mizener; and a scrapbook, restricted until 1991, of letters and verses by MacLeish collected by Yale classmate Francis Hyde Bangs.

Oversize papers (Box 22) holds proofs of several MacLeish writings, several articles aboutJ.B., and a typescript ofThe Eleanor Roosevelt Story.


Series I.		Writings
		7.25' (17 boxes)	Dates: 1915-76
		Series I. is divided into three sections. The first, Books, is subdivided under the headings of Poetry, Plays, and Prose, each of which is alphabetically arranged by title. The papers in the other two sections,Articles and Essays andPoetry, are also alphabetically arranged by title.
	BOOKS
Box	Folder		Date
	Poetry
		America Was Promises
1	1	Notebook, holograph, corrected (includes journal entry for 1945 Sep 16 and other notes)	n.d.
		Collected Poems, 1917-1952
	2-10	Typescript, corrected	n.d.
	11	Reviews	1952
		Conquistador
	12	Holograph manuscript, corrected	n.d.
	13	Holograph manuscript, corrected	n.d.
	14	Rejected drafts, holograph, corrected	n.d.
	15	Typescript, carbon ("as submitted")	n.d.
		The Human Season: Selected Poems 1926-1972
2	16-18	Setting copy, corrected, with editorial markings	n.d.
	19	Galley proofs, corrected, with editorial markings	1972
	20	Plate proof, with editorial markings	1972
		Nobodady
	21	Review by Stephen Vincent Benet in Saturday Review, plus review of The Pot of Earth	1926 Jul 17
		Poems: 1924-33
	22	Reviews	1934
		The Pot of Earth
		See:Nobodady, Box 2, folder 20.
		Public Speech; Poems by Archibald MacLeish
		See also: Oversize, Box 22, folder 452
	23	Typescript, corrected	1936
		Songs for Eve
	24	Notebook	n.d.
	25	Notebook	1952
	26-28	Drafts, holograph manuscript, corrected	n.d.
	29	Draft, holograph manuscript, corrected	n.d.
		"The Wild Old Wicked Man" & Other Poems
3	30	Notebook	1961, n.d.
	31	Notebook	1962
	32	Typescript	n.d.
	33	Setting typescript, with editorial markings	1968
	34	Galley proofs	1968
	35	Author's proof, corrected	1968 May 7
	36	Author's proof, corrected	1968 Jun 30
	Plays
		Air Raid (radio play)
	37	Review	n.d.
		The American Bell
	38	Holograph manuscript and typescript, corrected	1962 Mar 1
	39	Typescript, carbon, with comments by T. Edward Hambleton	1962 Mar 1
	40	Second draft, mimeograph and typescript, corrected	n.d.
	41	Third draft, mimeograph and holograph manuscript, corrected	1962 Apr 2
	42	Fourth draft, typescript, corrected	1962 May 4
	43	Auction catalog to benefit Fellowship of Reconciliation	1972
		The Fall of the City (radio play)
	44	Holograph manuscript, corrected	n.d.
		Herakles
	45	Partial draft, with comments on draft, typescript	1960 Mar-Apr
	46	Holograph manuscript and typescript, with comments on draft	1960 Jun-Jul
	47	Typescript, corrected ("an early false steer")	1960 Aug-Sep
	48	Typescript, corrected, with author's notes to himself on writing of play	1960-63
4	49	Partial typescript, corrected	1962 Jan 30
	50	Partial typescript, corrected	1962 Feb 15
	51	Typescript, corrected	1964 Sep-Oct
	52	Typescript, corrected, with miscellaneous pages at end	1965 Jan 22
	53	Mimeograph, corrected	1965 Oct
	54	Author's master copy, mimeograph and typescript, corrected	1965 Oct
	55	Setting copy, prepared by publisher for abortive 1966 edition, with editorial markings	n.d.
	56	Galley proofs, with editorial markings	1965
	57	Galley proofs	1965
	58	Typescript and holograph, corrected	1966 Jan-May
	59	Notes	1965-66
5	60	Draft of Act I and beginning of Act II, holograph, corrected	n.d.
	61	Typescript, corrected (as rewritten)	1966 Summer
	62-63	Setting typescript for 1967 edition, typescript and mimeograph, with editorial markings	n.d.
	64	Author's master copy, mimeograph, corrected	1966
	65	Galley proofs, corrected, with editorial markings	1967
	66	Page proofs, corrected	1967
	67	Plate proofs, with editorial markings	1967
		J.B.
		See also: Box 17, folders 281-85; Oversize, Box 22, folder 453 and folder 456
	68	Commentary on Book of Job, holograph	n.d.
	69	Notebook, "in which the play was incubated and many of its scenes sketched out roughly"	n.d.
6	70	Notes and comments, concerning writing of play, with sketches of scenes, holograph	1958, n.d.
	71-72	Early drafts, holograph manuscript, corrected	n.d.
	73	Early draft, discarded, holograph manuscript, corrected	n.d.
	74	Early draft of prologue and final scenes, holograph manuscript, corrected	n.d.
	75	Thanksgiving Dinner Scene, draft, holograph manuscript	n.d.
	76-77	First drafts, incomplete, holograph manuscript, corrected	c. 1953
	78-79	Holograph manuscript and typescript, includes duplicate and rejected material	n.d.
	80-81	Typescript, corrected, with editorial markings	1957 Feb
	82	Typescript (as prepared by Houghton Mifflin)	1957
7	83	Typescript, carbon (as prepared by Houghton Mifflin)	1957
	84	Galley proofs, with editorial markings	1957
	85-86	Galley proofs, corrected	1957
	87	Page proofs, with editorial markings	1957
	88	Page proofs, corrected, with editorial markings	1957
	89	Typescript, corrected	n.d.
	90	Draft, typescript and carbon, corrected	1957 Apr-May
	91	Page proofs and typescript, corrected	1957 Sep-Oct
8	92	Page proofs and typescript, corrected	1957 Sep-Oct
	93-94	Draft, representing rewrite of play in two acts instead of prologue and eleven scenes, carbon, corrected	1958 Summer
	95-96	Draft, Act I, typescript, mimeograph, and carbon, corrected	1958 Summer
	97	Draft, Act II, mimeograph and typescript, corrected	1958 Summer
	98-99	Typescript, carbon	1958 Summer
	100	Version completed December 1958 during rehearsals for New York production, typescript and mimeograph, corrected	1958 Fall
	101	Complete script for New York production, with changes made November 2-29, 1958, mimeograph, corrected	1958 Nov
	102-03	"Further working & worked on drafts, fall of '58," mimeograph and typescript, corrected	1958 Fall
9	104	"Final acting version," mimeograph, corrected	1958 Dec
	105	Various versions, revised ending, typescript and carbon, corrected	1959 Apr-May
	106	Revised version (with changed ending) for acting edition published by Samuel French, mimeograph and typescript, corrected	1959 Jul
	107	London version, printed, corrected	1960
		Other papers
	108	Advertisements	n.d.
	109	Articles about	1958-59, n.d.
	110	Ciardi, John, "The Birth of a Classic,"Saturday Review	1958 Mar 8
	111	Contract with Adelaide Festival of Arts	1961 Jul 1
	112	Contract with Houghton Mifflin	1956 Sep 18
	113	Papers	1958, n.d.
	114	Photographs: The Theatre Guild of British Guiana Ltd. production, given to MacLeish by Stephen Spender	1961
	115	Photographs: Yale production	1958
	116	Review: Yale production	1958 Apr 23
	117	Review: Houghton Mifflin edition	1958
	118	Reviews: Broadway production	1958-59
	119	Reviews: English edition	1959 Jul 31
	120	Reviews: sound recording	1960
	121	Royalties	1959-65
	122	Writings of MacLeish aboutJ.B.	1959, n.d.
		Panic
	123	Notes	n.d.
	124-25	Drafts of passages, holograph manuscript, corrected	n.d.
		Scratch
10	126	Typescript, photocopy	1971
	127	Publicity material	1971
		Six Plays
		See: Oversize, Box 22, folder 454
		This Music Crept by Me Upon the Waters
	128	Holograph manuscript, corrected	n.d.
	129	Holograph manuscript, corrected	n.d.
	130	Final draft, holograph manuscript, corrected	1952 Aug
	131	Typescript, corrected	n.d.
		The Trojan Horse
	132	Holograph manuscript, corrected	n.d.
	Prose
		The American Cause
	133	Holograph manuscript, incomplete, corrected	n.d.
	134	Typescript, incomplete, corrected	n.d.
	135	Typescript, incomplete, corrected	[1940?]
		A Continuing Journey
	136	Outline	n.d.
	137-39	Typescript and printed material	1927-67, n.d.
	140-41	Photocopies, corrected	1943-65
11	142-47	Photocopies, corrected	1944-67, n.d.
	148-53	Setting copy, corrected, with editorial markings	n.d.
	154	Typescript and carbon, rejects and duplicates	1944-67, n.d.
12	155-61	Typescript and carbon, rejects and duplicates	1941-67, n.d.
	162	Galley proofs, corrected	n.d.
13	163	Page proofs, with editorial markings	n.d.
	164	Plate proofs	1967
		The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
		See also: Oversize, Box 22, folder 455
	165	Author's plan, typescript	n.d.
	166	First draft, typescript	1964 Nov 17-27
	167	Carbon	1964 Nov 17-27
	168	Second draft, carbon, corrected	1964 Dec 23
	169	Antigua draft, typescript, corrected	1965 Jan 4-5
	170	Fragment, holograph manuscript	n.d.
	171	End of manuscript, typescript, corrected	n.d.
14	172	Setting typescript, corrected, with editorial markings	1965
	173	Final script, typescript, photocopy, with editorial markings	1965 Apr 8
	174	Repro proofs	1965
	175	Galley proofs, corrected	1965
	176	Galley proofs, with editorial markings	1965
	177	Galley proofs, with editorial corrections	1965
	178	Revised galley proofs, with editorial markings	1965
		Poetry and Experience
	179-81	Typescript, corrected	n.d.
	182	Typescript, corrected, miscellaneous pages	n.d.
	183-86	Setting typescript, corrected	n.d.
15	187	Index	n.d.
	188-90	Partial typescript, carbon	n.d.
	191	Galley proofs, corrected (with three leaves of typescript corrections)	n.d.
	192	Galley proofs, corrected	1960 Jul 30
	193	Page proofs, corrected	1960
		A Time to Speak: The Selected Prose of Archibald MacLeish
	194	Review	1941 May 4
	POETRY
16	195	Notebook	n.d.
	196-97	"Actfive"	n.d.
	198	"Analogy," discarded draft	n.d.
	199	"April in November"	n.d.
	200	"Arrival and Departure"	n.d.
	201	"At the University Memorial in the Year 1976"	1976
	202	"Autobiography"	n.d.
	203	"Beowulf Guest Poem"	n.d.
	204	"The Black Day: To the Memory of Lawrence Duggen,"News Bulletin	1949 Jan 1
	205	"Black Laughton"	n.d.
	206	"The Boatmen of Santorin"	n.d.
	207	"Boston," discarded draft	n.d.
	208	"Brooks Atkinson"	n.d.
	209	"Cartoon"	1930
	210	"Circular Lives"	n.d.
	211	"Colloquy for the States"	n.d.
	212	"Companions"	n.d.
	213	"Conquest of the Universe," discarded draft	n.d.
	214	"Contemporary Chorus"	n.d.
	215	"Contemporary Portrait"	n.d.
	216	"Creator"	n.d.
	217	"Crow's Laughter"	n.d.
	218	"The Dead Lady of Tours"	n.d.
	219	"The Dichter as Doktor," discarded draft	n.d.
	220	"Dr. Sigmund Freud Discovers the Sea Shell," discarded drafts	n.d.
	221	"The Ebb Tide," discarded drafts	n.d.
	222	"For Amy Lowell"	n.d.
	223	"Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City"	n.d.
	224	"Great Contemporary Discoveries"	n.d.
	225	"Hemingway"	n.d.
	226	"Hotel Breakfast"	n.d.
	227	"How the River Ninfa Runs Through the Ruined Town Beneath the Lime Quarry"	n.d.
	228	"Hurricane"	n.d.
	229	"Hypocrite Answer," discarded drafts	n.d.
	230	"In My Thirtieth Year"	n.d.
	231	"Infiltration of the Universe," discarded draft	n.d.
	232	"The Infinite Reason," discarded draft	n.d.
	233	"Journal of a Voyage," discarded draft	n.d.
	234	"Letter in a Floating Bottle," discarded draft	n.d.
	235	"Lilies"	1916
	236	"Limmerick, Limmerick" (to Geoffrey Parsons)	n.d.
	237	"Marie-Marthe in the Sunlight"	n.d.
	238	"Marijuana"	n.d.
	239	"Observations of P. Ovidius Naso on the Incidence of Sex in the Contemporary Novel"	n.d.
	240	"Old Man's Journey"	n.d.
	241	"Our Lady of Troy"	n.d.
	242	"The Peepers in Our Meadow"	n.d.
	243	"Physics of the Soul," discarded draft	n.d.
	244	"Poem for a Festival of Art at the Boston Public Gardens"	n.d.
	245	"The Reef Fisher," discarded draft	n.d.
	246	"The Sea Beyond the Flames"	n.d.
	247	"Seeing"	n.d.
	248	"The Ship in the Tomb"	n.d.
	249	"Ship of Fools," discarded draft	n.d.
	250	"Ship's Log" (calligraphy copy by Keith Highet)	n.d.
	251	"Someone Else"	n.d.
	252-53	"Sound Track"	n.d.
	254	"Spring in These Hills"	n.d.
	255	"Tea" (restricted until 1991)	1915
	256	"Theory of Poetry," discarded drafts	n.d.
	257	"Trailing Clouds of Glory Do We Come From Heaven That Is Our Home," discarded draft	n.d.
	258	"Trees Growing"	n.d.
	259	"Tyrant of Syracuse"	n.d.
	260	"Wakened Early"	n.d.
	261	"Waking"	n.d.
	262	"What Riddle Asked the Sphinx"	n.d.
	263	"Where a Poet's From"	n.d.
	264	"The Wild Old Wicked Man"	n.d.
	265	"William Adams Delano"	n.d.
	266	"The Wisconsin-Nevada Axis," discarded draft	n.d.
	267	"The Young Dead Soldiers," discarded draft	1945
	268-70	Unidentified	n.d.
	ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
17	271	Agee, James,Permit Me Voyage, with forward by Archibald MacLeish, typescript, corrected	1934
	272	"As We Remember Him" (Stephen Vincent Benet),Saturday Review	1943 Mar 27
	273	"The Beginning of Things,"North American Review	1924 Mar
	274	[Girl in a Garden], holograph fragment	n.d.
	275	Greece and Turkey, Aid for: speech, holograph manuscript, corrected	n.d.
	276	Harvard, speech at: typescript and holograph manuscript, corrected	1967
		Hemingway, Ernest
	277	"His Mirror Was Deeper," typescript, corrected	1961
	278	Statement for the British Broadcasting Company, typescript, corrected	1961 Jul 7
	279	Statement for the Voice of America, typescript, corrected	1961 Jul 7
	280	Hilliard, Elias B.,The Last Men of the Revolution, with forward by MacLeish, typescript, corrected	n.d.
		"'J.B.' A Play in Verse: The Prologue"
		See also: Oversize, Box 22, folder 456
	281	Holograph manuscript, corrected	n.d.
	282	Typescript, corrected	n.d.
	283	Photocopy, corrected	n.d.
	284	Galley proofs, corrected	1956
	285	Saturday Review	1956 Sep 1
		"The Librarian's Profession"
	286	Typescript, corrected	n.d.
	287	Galley proofs, corrected	n.d.
		"The Meaning of Peace"
	288	Holograph manuscript, typescript, and mimeograph	1943
	289	Printed version	1943
	290-95	Fan mail	1943-44
	296	"Mrs. Roosevelt: An Anniversary," holograph manuscript, corrected	1963
	297	"The Muses' Sterner Laws" (remarks at Smith College), holograph manuscript and typescript, corrected	1953
	298	National Book Award: remarks, holograph in hand of Ada MacLeish	1953
		"The Next Harvard"
	299	Typescript, corrected	n.d.
	300	Atlantic Monthly	n.d.
	301	"The Next Philosophy," with Lawrence Mason,North American Review	1923 May
	302	"The Poet and America,"The Carolina Quarterly	1957 Winter
	303	"Proclamation by the President of the United States" [not used], holograph manuscript, corrected	1945
	304	Pulitzer Prize Dinner, Remarks at: typescript, corrected	1959
	305	"Religion and the Requirements for a New Age of Reason," holograph manuscript, corrected	1951 May
	306	"Remarks at Yale," [October 7, 1960] typescript, corrected	1960
	307	Roosevelt Day Dinner, Remarks at January 26, 1951: holograph manuscript, corrected	1951
	308	"Trespass on a Monument" (written for New York Times in connection with Broadway production ofJ.B.), typescript, corrected	n.d.
	309	UNESCO, speech at Wash[ington] University: holograph manuscript, corrected	n.d.
		"The Venetian Grave"
	310	Holograph manuscript, corrected	n.d.
	311	Printed version, photocopy	[1976]
		Wendell Willkie
	312	Holograph manuscript, corrected	1944
	313	Typescript, corrected	1944
	314	"What Are the Fifties Like?," Smith Alumnae Quarterly	1956 Summer
	315	"Why Do We Teach Philosophy?," Atlantic Monthly	n.d.
	316	Yale Class of 1915 Fifty-Fifth Reunion Dinner, Speech by MacLeish: typescript, corrected	1970


Series II.		Correspondence
Box	Folder		Date
		1.0' (2 boxes)	Dates: 1916-80
		Series II contains alphabetically arranged correspondence. Unidentified letters are placed at the end of the series.
18	317	Acheson, Alice	1958 Mar 23
		Acheson, Dean	1950 Jan 30
	318	Aiken, Conrad	1926-27
	319	Anderson, Maxwell	1959 Feb 2
	320	Angleton, James	1940
	321	Babb, James T.	1937, 1960
	322	Baker, Mrs. George P.	[1932?]
	323	Bangs, Francis Hyde	1942
	324	Bangs, Grace Allen	1920-41
	325	Ben-Gurion, David	1958 Jun 25
		Bergen, Francis	[1917]
	326	Berssen, William	1958
	327	Bishop, John Peale	1926-32, n.d.
	328	Bompiani, Valentino	1960
	329	Bonney, Therese	1961 Jul 25
	330-32	Boyd, Julian P.	1961-62
	333	Brewster, Kingman	1976
	334	Bridsen, Geoffrey	1957
		Brooks, Paul
		See: Houghton Mifflin Company, Box 18, folder 370
	335	Buck, Bernard R.	1958 Jan 6
		Buttrick, George A.	1958 Mar 28
	336	Calder, Ritchie	1958 Jan 16
		Campion, Richard	1962
	337-38	Canfield, F. Curtis	1956-58
	339-42	Choate, Elizabeth	1920-27, n.d.
	343	Ciardi, John	1957-58
	344	Cisney, Marcella	1958 Jan 24
		Cohen, Barbara	1958 Jan 28
		Crawford, Cheryl	1958 Mar 13
	345	Curtis Brown Ltd.	1957-58
	346	Davenport, Russell	1936 Aug 3
	347	De la Mare, Walter	1919 Jan 31
	348-50	De Liagre, Alfred (Delly)	1958-61, n.d.
	351	Democratic Party	1968 Oct
	352	Dewar, Arthur	1938 Dec 14
	353	Eliot, T. S.	1927-28, n.d.
	354	Farrar & Rinehart, Inc.	1944 Aug 4
	355	Fitzgerald, F. Scott	c. 1930
	356	Galantiere, Louis	1928 Nov 15
	357	Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson	1917
	358	Glazier, Sidney	1964 Nov 23
		Gordis, Robert	1958 Dec 9
	359	Gould, Mr.	1972 Mar 15
	360-61	Hambleton, T. Edward	1957-62
	362	Harben, Robert	1960 Jun 21
	363-68	Hesse, Eva	1957-63, n.d.
	369	Horton, Douglas	1958 Apr 7
	370-73	Houghton Mifflin Company	1952-58
19	374-76	Houghton Mifflin Company	1959-67
		Houghton, Norris
		See: Phoenix Theatre, Box 19, folder 408.
	377	Huett, Richard	1958 Apr 2
	378	John W. Caldwell Little Theatre	1958 Mar 21
	379	Joyce, James	1927
	380	Kamlot, Robert	1958 Mar 13
	381-83	Kazan, Elia (Gadg)	1958-59
	384	Lally, Francis J.	1959 Nov 10
		Lecky, William P.	1958 Mar 19
	385	Leger, Alexis	n.d.
	386	Leigh, Robert D.	1946 Aug 8
	387	Lewis, Wilmarth S.	1941 May 10
	388	Lewis, Wyndham	1927-30, n.d.
	389	Liebert, Herman W.	1948, 1968
	390-91	Lister, Laurier	1960-61
	392	Lowell, Amy	1924 Feb 16
	393	Luce, Henry R.	1949
	394	Lustge[?], Mr.	1961 Jun 25
	395	Markel, Lester	1959 Feb 3
		Marshall, Arthur Calder	n.d.
	396	Masefield, John	1916, 1920
	397	Mason, Lawrence	1917-18, n.d.
	398-99	Mizener, Arthur	1937-38
	400	Monnier, Adrienne	1927 Feb 24
	401	Moore, Marianne	1927 Jul 21
		Morando, Sergio	1960
	402	Mumford, L. Quincy	1964 Oct 30
		Murdock, Kenneth R.	1959 Jan 12
	403	Nicolson, Harold	1927 Jun 14
	404	Oenslager, Donald	n.d.
		Ojetti, Paolo, Mrs.	1959 Jan 18
	405	Origo, Iris	1957-58
	406	Page, Curtis C.	1958 Mar 11
		Peabody, Grace Allen
		See: Grace Allen Bangs, Box 18, folder 324
	407	Perkins, Maxwell	1930 Dec 30
	408	Phoenix Theatre	1957-58
		See also: T. Edward Hambleton, Box 18, folder 360
	409	Pound, Ezra	1967 Mar 2
	410	Probst, George E.	1958 Feb 24
	411	Quayle, Anthony	1957-58
	412	Recordings for the Blind, Inc.	1961-69
		Rich, Philip
		See: Houghton Mifflin Company, Box 18, folder 370
	413	Robbins, Berenki L.	1958 Apr 3
		Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt	1964, n.d.
	414	Rodman, Selden	1958 Apr 6
		Rubin, Louis D., Jr.	1958 Mar 8
	415	Die Salzburger Festspiele	1958
	416	Sandburg, Carl	1935, 1955, n.d.
	417	Schuech, Karl	1960 Aug 31
		Sedgwick, A. C.	1958 Jul 5
	418	Shawn, Ben	1959
	419	Shumlin, Herman	1956-57
	420	Siegel, Paul N.	1958 Dec 31
		Simmon, Henry E.	1962
	421	Sizer, Theodore	1926, 1930
	422	Der Spiegel	1958 Aug 29
		Squarzina, Luigi	1958
		Strauss, Helen
		See: William Morris Agency
	423	Suhrkamp Verlag	1958-61
	424	Swiggett, Harold	1944 Dec 12
	425	The Theatre Guild	1958 May 27
	426	Tinker, Chauncey Brewster	n.d.
	427	Untermeyer, Louis