Presidential Medal of Freedom

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2005071

Description

Title: Presidential Medal of Freedom
Creator: From the Collection: Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972
Contributor: From the Collection: Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950
From the Collection: Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977
From the Collection: Thoby-Marcelin, Philippe, 1904-1975
From the Collection: Wilson, Edmund, Sr., 1863-1923
Published / Created: [1963]
Description: In original case and cloth bag Set of four medals: Large medal with ribbon Small medal with ribbon and eagle Small ribbon with eagle Tie clasp with eagle Large medal with ribbon engraved on verso: "Edmund Wilson"
Provenance: The Edmund Wilson Papers were acquired by the Library through gift and purchase over a period of years. The bulk of the collection was acquired through purchases and gifts from Edmund Wilson, 1944-1968, and Elena Wilson, 1972-1979; purchases from Helen Miranda Wilson on the Eugene G. O'Neill Memorial Fund and the Ezra Pound Archive Fund, 1995-1997; and a gift of Helen Miranda Wilson, 2000. Additional materials were acquired through gifts of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1967-1988, and Lewis M. Dabney, 2003 and 2007. For more detailed provenance information, consult the curator of the Yale Collection of American Literature.
Digitization Note: Some material housed in restricted/fragile folder 7035.
Language: English
French
Russian
Hebrew
Hungarian

Repository

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Call Number

YCAL MSS 187

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Container / Volume

Box 204, folder 4981

Access: Public
Rights: Permission from the Edmund Wilson Estate is required to publish Edmund Wilson materials in any format. To learn more, contact the Curator, Yale Collection of American Literature.
Citation: Edmund Wilson Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.