Manuscript/Mixed Material
Telegram from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Archibald MacLeish, December 4, 1944

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- Photograph, Alice in Wonderland Manuscript Presented to British Museum by Luther Harris Evans, undated, made available here with permission from ZUMA Press.
Suite 308, 1100 S. PCH, Laguna Beach, California 92651

- Photograph of Joseph Auslander, undated, made available here with permission from Bachrach Studio. 3
21 S. Washington Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314

- Letter from W. Somerset Maugham to Archibald McLeish, July 6, 1945, made available here with permission from A.P. Watt Ltd.
20 John Street, London, WC1N2DR, United Kingdom

- Letter from Marianne Moore to Archibald MacLeish, March 13, 1944, made available here with permission from Marianne Craig Moore, Literary Executor for the Estate of Marianne Moore.

- Photograph, Opening of the Lincoln Papers, undated, made available here with permission from WTOP.
3400 Idaho Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20016

- Letter from Allen Tate to Archibald MacLeish, April 23, 1943, made available here with permission from Helen H. Tate.
3922 Dorcas Drive, Nashville, Tennessee 37215

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