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[Identification of item], in the Maxwell Anderson Papers, #12007-z, Rare Book Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Purchases 1979-1989

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• American poetry--20th century.
• Anderson, Maxwell, 1888-1959--Motion picture plays.
• Anderson, Maxwell, 1888-1959.
• Authors, American--20th century.
• Authors, American--Political and social views.
• Bellamy, Francis Rufus, b. 1886.
• Greece--Politics and government--1935-1967.
• House buying--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
• Johns, Orrick, 1887-1946.
• Motion picture plays.
• Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971.
• Wright, D. F.

American playwright Maxwell Anderson was born in Atlantic, Penn., on 15 December 1888. He worked as a journalist early in his writing career and then turned largely to drama. He was the author of over 20 plays and also of volumes of poetry and of essays. Anderson died on 28 February 1959.

The collection includes a photostatic copy of a typescript of Anderson's screenplay for the film Winterset (1936) and four letters. The screenplay for Winterset, a film directed by Alfred Santell and starring Burgess Meredith, John Carradine, and Margo, is dated 1 October 1935 and stampled "Complete" and "Property of the Oliver Hinsdell Studio." It has a paper label identifying it as script number 1442 of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation of Culver City, Calif. Letters are from Anderson to F.R. Bellamy, 1941, authorizing a radio production of Unto the Least of These; to Allan Nevins, 1930, about selling a house on 113th Street in New York City that had belonged to Nevins and including a brief note giving background information about the house issue (Nevins's name is typed at the top, but there is no signature); to Orrick Johns, undated, about Anderson's critics and publishing opportunities for Johns's poems in the Measure: A Journal of Poetry; and to D.F. Wright, 1948, about a gift of olive oil from Crete and concern about the political situation in Greece.