Correspondence [typescripts] : January 9, 1940 - May 23 1940 : Washington, DC [to and from] Archibald MacLeish, Washington, DC / American Philosophical Society.

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Correspondence [typescripts] : January 9, 1940 - May 23 1940 : Washington, DC [to and from] Archibald MacLeish, Washington, DC / American Philosophical Society.

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Includes 4 letters by A.M. regarding publication of his Penrose Lecture "Characteristics of American culture and its place in general culture" in the Proceedings of the APS. The lecture was later published by "Nation" as "The Irresponsibles."

9 letters : photocopies ; 28 cm.

Greenfield Community College, Nahman-Watson Library

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Benjamin Franklin founded the American Philosophical Society in 1743 in Philadelphia, patterning it after the Royal Society of London. It's purpose was the promotion of the study of science and the practical arts of agriculture, engineering trades, and manufactures. Subjects of today's "philosophy" were generally excluded from the societies of the 17th and 18th centuries and the word "philosophy" meant to them "love of knowledge," and was essentially the equivalent of today's "science." Interest...

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Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) was an American poet. Kaiser is a professor of comparative literature at Harvard. From the description of Letters to Walter Jacob Kaiser, 1955-1957 and undated. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612367921 MacLeish (1892-1982) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American poet, playwright, teacher, librarian of Congress, and public official. He was also Boylston professor at Harvard (1949-1962). From the description of Scratch : manu...