Box 143
Container
Contains 1 Result:
For the Academy - Correspondence in re: abolishing the Institute [Barbara Tuchman, Peter Blume, Maggie Mills, George Kennan, Adam Yarmolinsky, Archie MacLeish, Lillian Hellman, E.B. White, John Hersey, John Updike, Babette Deutsch, Isaac Singer, Andrew Wyeth, Jose De Creeft, Aaron Copland, Ivan Albright, Buckminster Fuller, Roger Sessions, Elliott Carter, Raphael Soyer, Louise Nevelson, Saul Bellows, Ralph Ellison, Howard Nemerov, Red Warren, Virgil Thomson, Leon Edel, Richard Wilbur], 1979-1980
File — Box: 143, Folder: 5681
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
Contains correspondence, form letters, minutes, nominations for awards and for membership, and works by Cowley about the Academy. Cowley was nominated to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1949 and to American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1964. As a member of both organizations, Cowley served on many committees and as president from 1956-1959 and 1962-1965. He also served as chancellor of the Academy from 1967-1976. Felicia Geffen and Maggie Mills served as secretaries for the...
Dates:
1979-1980