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

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…

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

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

Typescript outline and notes for Omensetter’s Luck revised version, March 1954

Typescript photocopy of the Purdue Universityreading version of the story "In the Heart of the Heart of the Country." Includes notations by Gass.

Reading version of "Invisible Cities,"lecturegiven to Washington University's School of Architecture, March 26, 1984. First published in VIA (1986) and later included in Tests of Time (2002).

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,…

Printout draft of "Dis.covery," later published as "In Defense of the Book," in Harper's Magazine, Australian Financial Review, Los Angeles Times, The Best American Essays of 2000, and as a chapbook, then collected in A Temple of Texts.