Paris, France, to Norman MacLeish.
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| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | English |
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| Item Description: | Typed letter on official headed notepaper "American Red Cross (Croix-Rouge Américaine)". Signed in ink on behalf of "Home Communication Section, Bureau of Home and Hospital Service". Resume of the unsuccessful actions by American Red Cross to locate Kenneth MacLeish between October 19th, 1918 and January 30th, 1919. Includes copy of a letter dated December 16th, 1918 from Military Attache, American Embassy, in London referencing a cablegram sent from the American Legation in Copenhagen about the killing of an American near Camp Stralsund which may have been MacLeish but was judged "impossible". Lieutenant Kenneth MacLeish, USN (19 September 1894 - 14 October 1918) was an officer in the United States Navy during World War I. A Naval aviator, he received the Navy Cross posthumously for his combat actions. Kenneth and Norman were brothers of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Archibald MacLeish. Purchased for the Cushing Library/Ragan Military Collection by The Cushing Library. The Cushing Library/Ragan Military copy was acquired with: Delicately done, Martha Hillard MacLeish (1856-1947), Life of Andrew MacLeish, [Norman H. MacLeish], 2 letters, Kenneth, and Inscription for American dead in France. |
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| Physical Description: | 4 leaves ; 27 cm |