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One typescript draft of an essay written by Gass reviewing two books: The Savage God by A. Alvarez and Suicide by Jacques Choron, published in the May 18, 1972 issue of The New York Review of Books, and collected in The World Within the Word.

"The Ghost of Art: Photographs" by William H. Gass, Washington University Gallery of Art Fall 1999 bulletin.

Stanley Elkin introduces Gass and then Gass delivers his essay "The Habitations of the Word" to an audience in the Hurst Lounge on the Washington University in St. Louis campus.

Autograph draft fragments titled "The Masques of the Self," eventually published as "The Art of Self: Autobiography in an Age of Narcissism," Harper's Magazine, May 1994, reprinted inThe Best American Essays of 1994, reprinted and translated into…

First four of seven pages of “The Master’s Voice: Henry James’s Curriculum Vitae” by William H. Gass, Harper’s Magazine (August 2008). Printed from harpers.org. The essay was later collected in Life Sentences.

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.

Postcard invitation to "The Surface of the City" photograph exhibition and reading by William H. Gass.

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…

Printout draft of Gass's address at the 1998 St. Louis Walk of Fame induction ceremony.

Announcement for the International Writers Center "Writer and Religion" Conference, October 23-26, 1994, with printed text for an invitation to a dinner to celebrate the conclusion of the conference.