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Corrected typescript of "Icicles," first published in Perspective, Vol. 13 No. 1 (Autumn 1962), and included in In the Heart of the Heart of the Country.

Printout of an address given by Gass to the Academy and Institute of Arts & Letters, published in Conjunctions: 33 (1999). This address was adapted from the essay, "William Gaddis and His Goddamn Books," published in A Temple of Texts and…

The first ten pages of the first chapter of Gass's dissertation, "A Philosophical Investigation of Metaphor," for his PhD in philosophy from Cornell University. The dissertation is sixteen chapters total, with each chapter bound and titled…

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

Typescript draft of first portion ofOn Being Blue--in blue type, with occasional autograph corrections. Also includes three pages of typescript draft fragments.

Cover of uncorrected proof of Middle C.

Illustrations by Gass for the design and layout of The Tunnel:diagrams of the tunnel; corresponding outline of the chapters; sketches of "The Pennants of Passive Attitudes and Emotions," Party of the Disappointed People "PdP" banners and "the…

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.

First ten pages of typescript of Gass's first short story; with explanatory autograph note by Gass.

Autograph chapter outline notes on Omensetter's Luck,in a blue examination booklet.