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Typescript draft of It Happened One Night (A Detective Story to End All Detective Stories) by Mona Van Duyn, 1937.

J R logo created by William Gaddis.

J R scene outlines by William Gaddis showing the action broken down into draft sections and page numbers.

Typescript draft of a J R title page created by William Gaddis.

Program and advertisement for production at New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater.

Jim's Book, Charles Merrill's surprise gift for James Merrill for the Christmas of 1942. The book was privately printed and contained James Merrill's poetry and prose written while at Lawrenceville School.

In Krapp's Last Tape, only one character appears on stage but Beckett develops a dialogue between two characters, the older Krapp on stage and the voice of Krapp’s younger self played back on the tape recorder. With Not I, Beckett achieved his…

Lawrentian, vol. 56 no. 1. This issue of the Amherst alumni magazine features a cover story on poetry entitled "The Uncertain Future of Poetry" that contains an interview with James Merrill.

In October-November 1965, Beckett worked intensively through nine successive drafts before he finally abandoned the piece, leaving it unpublished in its entirety until 1970. Washington University holds the manuscripts of all nine drafts, including…