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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.

Photocopy of a 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.

Reading version of Gass's essay, originally published in Salmagundi 56 (Spring 1982) and collected for Habitations of the Word. Photocopy of a typescript draft, with autograph corrections and notes.

The first 10 pages (including cover page) of Gass's philosophy essay from college, "Sermon on Substance." Entire essay is 50 pages.

Corrected proof of an essay on Sigmund Freud published as "Freud's Fierce Science" inThe New York Review of Bookson April 17, 1975, and collected as "The Anatomy of the Mind" inThe World Within the Word.

Corrected typescript draft of an essay first published inThe New Republic, July 17, 1968, reprinted inThe Purdue AlumnusandThe Penguin Book of Essay,and collected inFiction and the Figures of Life.

An announcement for readings by John Hawkes, William Gass and John Barth at the Centre Culturel Americain in Paris, France. Autograph notes by Gass on the verso.

Front cover of an uncorrected page proof by Harper & Row ofFiction and the Figures of Life. Never published by Harper & Row, the book was moved to and published by Knopf in 1970.

Announcement of a Gass lecture in Peoria, Illinois, as part of the Olive White Lecture Series at Bradley University. Includes brief description of Gass's books and the lecture.

Invitation to "The Cost of Everything," an adaptation of a section of The Tunnel, by the Highline Readers, at Highline Community College in Des Moines, WA. Inscribed by the director, C.M. Sandifer.