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Limited edition of 500 copies.
This year book includes a tipped-in four-page facsimile of a letter from Maria White [Mrs. James Russell] Lowell to Sophia [Mrs. Nathaniel] Hawthorne, with remarks by F. B. Sanborn. The title page is engraved by Macdonald. Good .
First edition.
One of 750 copies printed for distribution in 1945. This copy is unnumbered. Fine .
Among the contents are speeches presenting medals to Leon Edel by Malcolm Cowley, to Samuel Barber by William Schumann and to Allen Tate by Stanley Kunitz, with brief acceptance speeches by Edel and Barber. There are commemorative tributes to Samuel Eliot Morison by Henry Steele Commager, to Walter Lippmann by George F. Kennan and to Thornton Wilder by Leon Edel. An address by Henry Steele Commager is titled "Recreating the Community of Culture". Richard Wilbur gives the opening introduction. Very good .
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