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Advertisement for "An Evening with William Gaddis" at the University of Southern California sponsored by Poets & Writers, Inc. and the Professional Writing Office, circa 1991-1993.

15 Are Named to Arts Institute, New York Times, February 25, 1970. Article lists Duke Ellington, Philip Roth and May Swenson among the fifteen artists, writers, and musicians who have been voted into the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

William Matheson to Isabella Gardner, June 11, 1965. Matheson writes to Gardner to introduce himself as head of the Rare Book Department of Washington University. He informs her that her package arrived safely. He is writing to Gardner because Mona…

Offprint of “An Approach to Special Collections” by William Matheson from American Libraries, December 1971.

Title Description - Documentation of one of New York City's most cosmopolitan blocks: 14th Street between Seventh and Eight Avenues, Manhattan, at a specific time (1975-1978) via physical descriptions of 24 separate establishments and interviews with…

In one of his earliest volumes of poetry, Water Street (1962), James Merrill was already inquiring into what would become one his primary poetic projects: the problem of poetic “double vision.” Poetic double vision, or seeing art as both a…

Oil on canvas