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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.