Manuscript draft fragments of "Toy Beer," a short story written by Gass, with autograph draft of letter to Mona Van Duyn on verso, replying to her invitation for him to send manuscripts to the newly forming Modern Literature Collection at Washington…
"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.
"A Sheaf of Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke" arranged in order of their completion translated by William H. Gass and used for his classes at Washington University in St. Louis.
Scrapbook created by William H. Gass containing clippings of articles, reviews and advertisements, as well as some photographs, spanning the 1950s and 1960s.