Most creative works in the William H. Gass Papers or on loan from Gass were published in one form or another. Here are two exceptions. We don't know if anything more came of "Toy Beer" but it is doubly important to us in that on the back of the story draft is the start of a letter to Mona Van Duyn, in response to her request for him to send manuscripts and worksheets to be included in the new Modern Literature Collection at Washington University in St. Louis.

"The Bard"

"The Bard" typescript draft

"Toy Beer" - Manuscript Draft Fragments

"Toy Beer" manuscript draft fragments