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Printout draft of “Letter to the Editors of the Post-Dispatch” by William H. Gass as Samuel Clemens, regarding a bill to rename the Mark Twain Expressway the Mark McGwire Expressway, September 30, 1998.

Typescript draft of an introduction for Donald Barthelme by William H. Gass.

Photocopy of a thirteen-page typescript letter from Gass to his editor, David Segal, going into the structure, themes and significance of Omensetter's Luck, as well as great works of literature in general.

Slide photographs taken by Gass and used for his slide lecture, titled "The Surface of the City," published in Harper's Magazine, and delivered at the Georgia Tech School of Architecture, the Walker Art Institute in Minneapolis, and the St. Louis Art…

Photograph of William Gaddis, taken by William Gass in the Soviet Union, 1985

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

Printer's final copy of In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, July 6, 1967

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,…

Cover letter from Gass for a printout copy of his collection of novellas, "A Master of Sweet Revenges," published later asCartesian Sonata, in which he explains the thematic elements to the stories. Also includes the cover page of the printout.