Corrected copies of Scott Donaldson's biography of Archibauld MacLeish (1892-1982) (Archibauld MacLeish, An American Life, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992); Donaldson's notes for his biography; interviews conducted by Roy Winnick with and about MacLeish; letters to Donaldson concerning his research for the biography; typescripts of notes by MacLeish about his travels and poetry, 1923-1950; and articles on MacLeish.

Articles by William H. MacLesih, (October 1982), Arthur Mizener (1938), and George Plimpton (1981). Copy of MacLeish's notebook from his trip to Persia in 1926. (4 items)

1923-1925, on Santayana Essays. First notes and drafts for what became The Hamlet of A. MacLeish, etc. (6 items)

1926-1950, on The Hamlet of A. MacLeish, Conquistador, La Rochelle, etc. (33 items)

concerning Artchibald MacLeish; notes. (6 items)

letters from MacLeish to thursa sanders, letters from Thursa Sanders to Scott Donaldson. (5 items)

1945-1946, his treatment of his son Peter, which was not harsh although he admitted that he didn't treat his son Kenneth well, finances and transportation as Librarian of Congress, reading of poetry, and Library of Congress business. (5 items)

Scope and Contents information on Archibald MacLeish: "Conway 1945", how MacLeish viewd his job at the library and Thursa Sanders' job, working conditions at the State Deparment and Sanders' recollectiona of MacLeish's daughter "Mimi" (Mary Hillard MacLeish Grimm). (5 items)

MacLeish's secretary; letter from Scott Donaldson to Thursa Sanders concerning questions about MacLeish (6 items)

letters from Sanders to Donaldson concering MacLeish at the Library of Congress. (5 items)

concerning Archibald MacLeish; six letters from Sanders to Donaldson-one arguing that MacLeish was not anti-semetic. (7 items)

concerning his materials on Archibald MacLeish; three letters from Thursa Sanders to Scott Donaldson concerning MacLeish. (5 items)

Scope and Contents concerning how Winnick will be included in the book; whether the by-line will read "Scott Donaldson and Roy Winnick" or "Scott Donaldson with Roy Winnick"; letter from Scott Donaldson to Winnick concerning the same subject and suggesting "with the collaboration of"; eventually used "in collaboration with Roy Winnick." (4 items)

replies to Donaldson about requests for photographs; letters concerning book on Archibald MacLeish. (5 items)

from Mary M. Adams of Cambridge, Massachusetts; three from David Barber of the University of Iowa, Moscow, Iowa; James Bell of Time-Life News Service, Boston, Massachusetts; one from Fanny Brennan. (6 items)

from: John Broderick, Potomac, Maryland; Virginia Bruch, Research Curator at the Boyhood Home of Robert E. Lee in Alexandria, Virginia; D. Bundy of New York, New York; three letters from Alexander Campbell of Geneva, New York; and John Conway of Milton, Massachusetts. (7 items)

from: Rob Crowley, editor of the Quarterly Journal of Military History, New York (2 letters); Phyllis L. of Northampton, Massachusetss; two letters from Ben Drabeck and George Bluh urging the selection of Archibald MacLeish for a commemorative stamp in 1990. (7 items)

from: Martha MacLeish Fuller, Somerville, Massachusetts (granddaughter); Dana Gioia; Elise Simon Goodman, New York, New York; Goodman Associates; Literary Agents; Jean Groo, New Canaan, Connecticut; Robert Grose, Director of Insitutional Research, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts; Haldore Hamson, Mexico; Pamela Harriman; letter from John Haskell at Swem library; and Robert Hawkins, Lakeville, Connecticuit. (9 items)

from: Verna Hobson, New Gloucester, Maine; Frank Snowden Hopkins, Bethesda, Maryland (U.S. Consul General, retired); Susan Howe, Gilford, Connecticut; three from Walker Kaiser, Director of the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies; two from William Katterjohn, Lexington, Kentucky; Kenneth Kinnamon, University of Arkansas; and two from Peggy Ann Kusnerz, Ann Arbor, Michigan. (11 items)

from: (?) Worcester, Massachusetts; A. Bruce MacLeish, Cooperstown, NY; Joan Mellen, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Linda Miller, Pennsylvania State University, Abington, Pennsylvania; Herbert Mitgany, New York, New York; Honor Moore, Hunt, Connecticut; four items from Vance Morgan, Chesapeake, Virginia; and Ed Mullaly, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. (12 items)

from: Tim Newcourt (?), West Chester Universtiy, West Chester, Pennsylvania; letter from Alan Powers, Bristol Community College, Fall River, Massachusetss to Archibald MacLeish; and a letter from MacLeish to Powers; Alan Powers to Donaldson concerning MacLeish, postcard from Ala Powers; two letterd from Paul quintanilla; Daly City, California; and Paul (?), alond with clips about Luis Quintanilla. (12 items)

from Paul Quintanilla, Radcliffe Squires, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Thomas Underwood, Harard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Mrs. Stuyvesant Van Veen, New York, New York; and Teresa Winslow, Pompano Beach, Florida-two letters plus reminiscences of her first meeting with Archibald MacLeish. (8 items)

for his biography of Archibald MacLeish; includes phone interviews, typed manuscripts of notes from some of these interviews, dating from June 29, 1987 until July 10, 1990; includes interviews with Bill MacLeish (son of Archibald), Thursa Bakey Sanders, Richard McAdoo, and Mimi Grimm (daughter of Archibald). (25 items)

for his biography of Archibald MacLeish (includes phone interviews); includes interviews with Roderick MacLeish, Eugene McCarthy, Frank Snowden Hopkins, Mimi Grimm (daughter of Archibald), and William H. and Elizabeth MacLeish; interviews date from January 8, 1989 until June 11, 1990. (32 items)

44 pages long, entitely "Notes from a conversation with Archibald MacLeish, Conway, Mass. Saturday, Sunday, September 9-10, 1978." Further noted: "R.H. Winnick interviews not on tape." Corrections made by A. MacLeish. (1 item)