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Three letters of Christopher Isherwood, John Dreyfuss correspondence, and Limited Editions Club correspondence.

Correspondence of Blanche Gregory containing letters from some of her clientele. Included are 269 letters to Gregory and her assistant, Gertrude Bregman from Joyce Carol Oates, 1963-1982; ten letters from Tom Savage, 1971-1980; and 76 letters from Paul Theroux, 1966-1980. Also, one folder of miscellaneous uncataloged letters at the end of the collection.

Twelve books by Truman Capote in various printings and foreign language translations, ephemera relating to stage adaptations of some of his works, and books about Capote. Novels represented include "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "In Cold Blood".

Manuscripts, proofs and printed copies of eight novels by Jahn: Night Rituals (New York, W.W. Norton & Co., c1982); The Quark Maneuver (New York, Ballantine Books, c1977); Murder In Central Park; Murder In Coney Island; Murder On Fifth Avenue; Murder At The Museum Of Natural History; Murder On Theatre Row; Murder On The Waterfront

Correspondence, manuscripts, notes, printed materials, and tape cassettes assembled by Tom Clark in writing his WRITER: A LIFE OF JACK KEROUAC. There is correspondence from friends and fellow writers of Kerouac, printed materials about Kerouac and The Jack Kerouac Conference, 1982, at the Naropa Institute (Boulder, Colorado), and five drafts of Clark's book manuscript. Among the correspondents are Carolyn Cassady, Robert Creeley, Edward Dorn, and Allen Ginsberg.

Correspondence, manuscripts, notes, photographs, reviews, clippings, and other printed materials about Hanff, as well as books by and about her.

Prof. Greet has presented Columbia with a collection of letters which he has received from numerous authors, including John Mason Brown, John Cheever, John Dos Passos, Marianne Moore, and 27 from H.L. Mencken. Of special interest is a notebook of letters concerning Greet's dictionary, WORLD WORDS, puiblished in 1944 by CBS as an aid in the understanding and pronunciation of new and foreign words. The notebook contains letters from Henry A. Wallace, George Marshall, Cordell Hull, J. Edgar Hoover, and more than 50 other public officials