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Typescript draft of “Sweets.” A fictional memoir published as “Sweet Things” in Harper’s Magazine (February 1992) and included in The Tunnel.

Typed manuscript of “Proust at 100.” Published as “One Hundred Years of Proust” in The New York Times Book Review (July 11, 1971) and in The World Within the Word.

Printout draft of "Limerical History of the World" by Gass, for inclusion in The Tunnel.

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…

Corrected transcript of an interview with William H. Gass - August 15, 1995. Unknown interviewer.

Typescript draft of reading version of a passage ofWillie Masters' Lonesome Wife.Contains alternate draft of first page, introductory text, multiple color type and light autograph corrections.

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…

Faxed, corrected printout draft of the essay, “On Experimental Writing: Some Clues for the Clueless,” published in The New York Times Book Review, August 21, 1994. Essay was reprinted/revised as "Anywhere But Kansas" in:The Iowa Review,…

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.