Recent Acquisitions
The following are highlights from materials recently acquired by the Ransom Center.
- The Woodward and Bernstein Watergate Papers (see cover article for overview of materials)
- Miscellaneous correspondence by Saul Bellow
- The papers, library, and paintings of noted author, translator, and artist Guy Davenport, including correspondence with Ezra Pound, Hugh Kenner, James Laughlin, Thomas Berger, and Louis Zukofsky
- Additional materials for the Graham Greene collection, featuring a handwritten working draft of an unfinished novel, a corrected typescript of "Jim Braddon and the War Criminal," and several pieces of correspondence
- Three handwritten letters from D. H. Lawrence to Philip Heseltine, ca. 1915-16
- A letter from Ezra Pound to the editor of The Times, criticizing an article entitled "Two Sonatas by John Blow," 18 April 1934
- Additional materials for the Isaac Bashevis Singer archive, featuring an unpublished hand-written letter to the editorial director of Playboy in response to a request for an imagined obituary notice, and correspondence, publishers' catalogs, periodicals, articles by and about Singer, and photographs
- Additional material for the Frederic Will collection, including graduate papers and early essays, correspondence, a corrected typescript of Miroirs d'éternité: une saison au sahel, and his mother's WWI diaries
- Additional materials for the Tennessee Williams collection from Charles Bowden, including scripts and production material for The Night of the Iguana, an unproduced musical version of Camino Real, and Slapstick Tragedy, as well as audio tapes, correspondence, clippings, photographs, and programs
- Research and production materials for Laura Wilson's Avedon at Work: In the American West
- Supplementary material for the following collections: Stanley Burnshaw, David Douglas Duncan, Zulfikar Ghose, Wilson Harris, Oliver LaFarge, J. B. Priestley, James Salter, and Dame Freya Stark
