Election to American Academy of Arts and Letters, December 6, 1963

File — Box: 2

Identifier: MC041/03.03

Staff Only

Scope and Content Note

From the Sub-Series:

Contains a variety of press releases, newspaper clippings, and articles concerning awards and tributes to Rachel Carson. Included are the texts of Carson's acceptance speeches for the AAUW Achievement Award (June 1956); award presented by the National Council of Women (November 1956), the Schweitzer Medal (January 1963), the Audubon Medal (December 1963), and the Cullum Medal (January 1963). Also includes a copy of Carson's paper presented before AAAS in December 1953; text of Audubon lecture; text of lecture given in Wiscasset (for which Carson used slides by Stanley Freeman Sr.); text and recording of a speech given before the Women's National Press Club in December 1962; and Carson's statement made before a Congressional subcommittee in June 1963.

Materials relating to memorials and tributes after Carson's death include the Rachel Carson Committee (Marie Rodell); the Rachel Carson Trust; the Rachel Carson Wildlife Refuge and others.

This subseries also includes transcripts of the CBS Report "The Silent Spring of Rachel Carson" (April 1963); CBS Report "The Great Farm Vote of '63: the Verdict on the Silent Spring of Rachel Carson (May 1963); ABC-TV "The Sense of Wonder" (June 1968) and revised transcript of "The Sense of Wonder" (September 1968); and a reel-to-reel tape of a National Public Radio program labeled "Dorothy Rand Presentation (undated).

Dates

December 6, 1963

Access Restrictions

For Dorothy Freeman letters, or other Freeman materials, copyright and literary rights are owned by the Freeman family. Researchers may quote portions of the Freeman letters in unpublished papers prepared as part of the academic and related programs of Bates College and make photocopies of up to ten letters for research purposes only without the written consent of the family. Researchers must contact Martha Freeman, 22 Hancock Street, Unit 208, Portland, Maine 04101 for all other requests to photocopy, quote from, or publish this material.

For Rachel Carson letters, copyright and literary rights are owned by the Carson Estate. Researcher must contact Frances Collin, Trustee u-w-o Rachel Carson, PO Box 33, Wayne, PA 19087-0033 for permission to photocopy, quote from, or publish this material.