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Autograph draft "The Bailbondsman" from Searches and Seizures by Stanley Elkin written in a Washington University examination book.

Broadside advertisement for "The Bait" by James Merrill sponsored by .

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

Poster advertisement for "The Beckett Country: An Exhibition of Photographs for Samuel Beckett's Eightieth Birthday" sponsored by The University of Reading, May 12 - June 7, 1986.

Poster advertisement for "The Beckett Country: An Exhibition of Photographs for Samuel Beckett's Eightieth Birthday" sponsored by The University of Reading, May 12 - June 7, 1986

"The Bell" by Mona Van Duyn from The Kenyon Review, Volume VII, Number 4 (Autumn 1945). Van Duyn's first published short story.

"The Blue Jay" by Billy Gaddis from The Worthington Aerial.

Draft pages of "The Book of Ephraim" Section A, with corrections to the beginning, which addresses James Merrill's uncertainty over the format in which to tell this story. Claude Fredericks had convinced him it had to be in verse.

Draft pages from Section P, which is an important section about power and apocalypse that foreshadows the revelations in Mirabell: Book of Numbers and Scripts for the Pageant.

Autograph and typescript drafts with extensive corrections of "The Bootleg Business" from Army Brat by William Jay Smith.