Scope and Contents The Lawrence Levy Collection of Willie Master's Lonesome Wife by William H. Gass consists of photocopies of correspondence between William H. Gass, Lawrence Levy, and Charles Newman related to the publication of Willie Master's Lonesome Wife as well as10 photocopied drafts and newspaper clippings. Also included are photocopied letters and memos from Levy related to the sale of an archive of Willie Master's Lonesome Wife materials and resulting dispute over ownership with Northwestern...

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Notebook of Long poems. Notebook is a small tan binder, with Long's bookplate and a sticker annotated, "Poems at work on 1942 (copy left with [Heari] Haniel." Contains 11 pages in typescript, corrected; 6 pages in manuscript (3 are fragments pasted in); 20 pages uncorrected carbon typescript, 37 pages. Laid in are 1 page typescript and 1 page typescript carbon. Enclosed is a 5x7" black and white photograph of Long, circa age 70

Scope and Contents Corrected ribbon typescript with ink and pencil annotations,150 pages. Includes envelope identifying this as made from Samuel Beckett's copy of Mercier et Camier in Raymond Federman’s hand, circa 1960.Edited typescript of Beckett’s first novel written in French, originally drafted in 1946 but unpublished until 1970 by Editions de Minuit.This appears to be an intermediate state of Beckett’s French text, with many typing errors and with manuscript corrections throughout, mostly...