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Printout draft of "Dis.covery," later published as "In Defense of the Book," in Harper's Magazine, Australian Financial Review, Los Angeles Times, The Best American Essays of 2000, and as a chapbook, then collected in A Temple of Texts.

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

A Temple of Texts: Fifty Literary Pillars: An Exhibit to Inaugurate the International Writers Center selected by William H. Gass, Special Collections, Washington University Libraries, 1991.

Typed letter, signed from William H. Gass to Matthew Gaddis, December 8, 2000.

Newspaper clipping of "East vs. West in Lithuania: Rising Tempers at a Writers' Meeting" by William H. Gass from The New York Times Book Review, 1986.

Typed letter, signed from William H. Gass to Stanley Elkin, October 8, 1965.

Typed letter, signed from William H. Gass to Stanley Elkin, October 14, 1960.

Typed letter, signed from William H. Gass to William Gaddis, April 21, 1981.

Gass drawing/diagram of LSL entries

Letter from William Gass to Salman Rushdie about contributing to The Writer in Politics book.