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Original contract between George Francis Gifford and William Ballard Hoyt concerning the founding of the Cornell Daily Sun, June 22, 1880; cabinet card photograph of Hoyt; and postcard to Horatio S. White advising that the first number will be issued and what it will contain, September 10, 1880. Also framed copy of the contract.

Abstract Letters by noted authors, many on the subject of writing. Authors represented include: Louisa May Alcott, James Baldwin, Paul Bowles, Pearl Buck, Raymond Chandler, Agatha Christie, Samuel Clemens, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Theodore Dreiser, T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Robert Frost, Zane Grey, Alex Haley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, Thomas Mann, Henry Miller, Margaret Mitchell, Vladimir Nabokov, Ezra Pound, Rod Serling, G.B....

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Signed autograph letter to Ada Zouche German describing Doxsee's experiences in World War II, including his enlistment, training, participation in the Battle of the Bulge, his capture by the German Army, his time in prisoner of war camps, and his service in Dresden work camps, with particular reference to the fire bombing of that city, and his forced labor in Schlachthof Funf, or Slaughterhouse Five, in the company of the novelist Kurt Vonnegut.

Abstract Chiefly incoming correspondence from publishers, agents, friends, and readers, as well as materials relating to Vonnegut's family and personal life from the period he lived in Barnstable, MA (1950s-1970s). Highlights also include his notebooks from his time as a graduate student in anthropology at the University of Chicago from 1945 to 1947 after serving in World War II; several manuscript notes or typescripts of plays, essays, speeches and screenplays; and scrapbooks Vonnegut compiled...

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Photocopies of typescript letters between Harris and Kurt Vonnegut, 1945-2003. Also, "Black Heritage" stamp first day cover, with printed envelope by Vonnegut; original postcard, 2005; and copy of Marx in Soho, by Howard Zinn, inscribed to Harris by Vonnegut.