[Rarebooks] FS: SIGNED Archibald MacLeish MANUSCRIPT on Adlai Stevenson

[Charles Agvent]

MacLEISH, Archibald. TYPED MANUSCRIPT SIGNED (TMS): ADLAI STEVENSON. A 
three-page Typed Manuscript on 7-1/2" x 11" onionskin paper SIGNED 
"Archibald MacLeish" at the top along with the date and the annotation 
"(not proof-read)" in MacLeish's hand. He has also, under the printed 
title, written "Memorial Address at the U.N." MacLeish's tribute was 
read by him at the United Nation's memorial service for Stevenson on 19 
July 1965. Part of his speech can be seen on the U.N.'s Audiovisual 
Library web page. This manuscript differs slightly from that version. 
MacLeish praises Stevenson in a warm but realistic manner. In part: "He 
had no taste for power, no desire for it. The remarkable speech in which 
he accepted the inevitability of his nomination for the presidency was a 
portrait of himself as ill-advised politically as it was personally 
honorable. And the two disastrous and superb campaigns which he 
conducted where [sic] proof that his reluctance at the start was not the 
reluctance of political calculation but of passionate belief." Rather 
faint foxing. Near Fine. (#020635) $500

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