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Autograph draft of "A Streetcar Named Smith" by William Jay Smith. Smith's reminiscence about his experiences aboard the French navy boat, La Gradiere, during World War II.

Announcement for Washington and Lee University's "Symposium on Contemporary Fiction," with Donald Barthelme, William Gass, Grace Paley and Susan Sontag, presented by the Glasgow Endowment Committee.

Newspaper clipping of "A Tidy, Natural Taste" by Edith Sitwell, circa 1955. Sitwell reviews Birthdays From the Ocean by Isabella Gardner.

Prospectus for "A Treasury of Masterworks from a Master of American Literature Stanley Elkin" from Warner Books.

Typescript draft with corrections of "A Valedictory to Standard Oil of Indiana" by David Wagoner. Published in the January 1, 1966 issue of The New Yorker.

Typescript draft of "A Voice within a Voice" by Raymond Federman. Collected in Critifiction: Postmodern Essays by Federman, 1993.

Abstractions Arrive: Having Been There All the Time. Essay by William H. Gass. Photographs by Michael Eastman, October 2009. Published as an iPad ebook, 2012.

Newspaper clipping of "Actress Turned Poet Reads for Art Students" by Barbara Flanagan, circa 1961.

Typescript photocopy of a compilation of blurbs titled "Advance Comment Pro and Con On 'The Recognitions' by William Gaddis."

Broadside of "Albert Newgarden, too, congratulated William Gaddis on receiving the 1993 Lannan Literary Award for Lifetime Achievement."