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Typescript draft of first portion ofOn Being Blue--in blue type, with occasional autograph corrections. Also includes three pages of typescript draft fragments.

Two early typescript drafts of the beginning of Omensetter's Luck,with some autograph corrections by the author.

Typescript draft fragments and autograph notes for Gass's review of Wisconsin Death Trip by Michael Lesy, published in June 24, 1973 issue of The New York Review of Books, and collected in The World Within the Word.

Manuscript draft fragments of "Toy Beer," a short story written by Gass, with autograph draft of letter to Mona Van Duyn on verso, replying to her invitation for him to send manuscripts to the newly forming Modern Literature Collection at Washington…

Autograph draft fragments titled "The Masques of the Self," eventually published as "The Art of Self: Autobiography in an Age of Narcissism," Harper's Magazine, May 1994, reprinted inThe Best American Essays of 1994, reprinted and translated into…

Selected typescript and manuscript notes and draft pages of "The Clairvoyant," a short story first published inLocation, I, No. 2 (1964); reprinted inAesop's Feast, I, No. 1 (1968); and revised and retitled "The Writing on the Wall" for inclusion…

Selected draft fragments of the essay, "The Artist and Society,"first published inThe New Republic, July 17, 1968, reprinted inThe Purdue AlumnusandThe Penguin Book of Essay,and collected inFiction and the Figures of Life.

Printout draft of "The Apocalypse Museum," an excerpt from Middle C, published in Conjunctions, No. 27, 2001.

Typescript draft of "Mr. Pope and Mr. Pratt" by James Merrill most likely written during his time at Amherst, circa 1940's.

Photocopy of a printout draft of "Lust," faxed to and corrected by the publisher. This essay was first published in Wicked Pleasures: Meditations on the Seven 'Deadly' Sins, edited by Robert Solomon. New York, Rowan and Littlefield, 1999,…