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A typescript draft of "At Horseshoes," with autograph note by Gass explaining its origin and his intention to include it in Omensetter's Luck. He filed another draft of the same story, plus typescript fragments and notes in the same folder.

Autograph draft of "Autobiography" by James Merrill. Most likely written during his time at Amherst, circa 1946.

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.

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

Four printout draft versions of an early draft of "Krystalnacht," a section of The Tunnel, with autograph notation at the end.

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

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,…

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

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

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.