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“St. Louis Bound: A City of Parks and Churches and Neighborhoods, Neither East, Nor West, Nor North, Nor South, But a City as Human as a Ball Game, as Friendly as a Glass of Beer” by William H. Gass, Travel Holiday, September 1993

Program for a "Teach-In on 'The Concept of Freedom,'" at Purdue University, Indianapolis Campus. Includes a lecture by William H. Gass, "Free and Un-Free Freedom."

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.

Printout draft of "The Apocalypse Museum," an excerpt from Middle C, published in Conjunctions, No. 27, 2001.

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.

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.

Brochure catalog of short courses offered in the Fall 1972 - Spring 1973 academic year at Washington University in St. Louis. Includes "The Character of Contemporary American Fiction," taught by William H. Gass.

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

"The Case of the Obliging Stranger," reprint from The Philosphical Review, Volume LXVI, Number 2 (April 1957). Collected in Fiction and the Figures of Life.

Selected typescript and manuscript notes and draft pages of "The Clairvoyant," a short story first published inLocation, I, No. 2 (1964); reprinted inAesop's Feast, I, No. 1 (1968); and revised and retitled "The Writing on the Wall" for inclusion…