Record ID:
184773
Accession number:
MA 5469
Credit:
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden.
Description:
1 item (10 p.), unbound ; 27.7 cm
Notes:
Typescript notation above the title "by Archibald MacLeish / Mill Reef, Antigua / West Indies Federation / (After April 20, Conway, / Mass..)."
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."
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)
Provenance:
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
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