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  • Page 1 of corrected proof of David Foster Wallace's 1996 essay on the U.S. Openfor Tennis Magazine.
    Image courtesy of The Harry Ransom Center
  • Opening page of corrected proof of Wallace's 1996 essay "Shipping Out: On the(Nearly Lethal) Comforts of a Luxury Cruise" for Harper's magazine.
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  • "Attempted Fax Cover Sheet" from David Foster Wallace to Joel Lovell of Harper'sfor Wallace's 1998 essay "Laughing with Kafka."
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  • Letter and notes from editor Michael Pietsch to David Foster Wallace regardingdraft of Infinite Jest, dated Dec. 22, 1994.
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  • Letter and notes from editor Michael Pietsch to David Foster Wallace regardingdraft of Infinite Jest, dated Dec. 22, 1994.
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  • Letter from Jim Harrison to David Foster Wallace, dated late July 2006. Theletter was tucked inside a copy of Jim Harrison's book Saving Daylight.
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  • The Ransom Center's copy of the Gutenberg Bible.
    Photo by Thomas McConnell Photography
  • Housing for the First Photograph, which replicates the backside of the framedphotograph.
    Photo by Thomas McConnell Photography
  • Prior to treatment, Stephanie Watkins examines the condition of a rare drawingof Edgar Allan Poe done from life, which is attributed to Rembrandt Peale.
    Photo by Eric Beggs
  • Harry Ransom Center Director Thomas F. Staley
    Photo by Gregg Cestaro

  • Annotated pages from David Foster Wallace's teaching copy of C. S. Lewis's TheLion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
    Image courtesy of The Harry Ransom Center
  • Annotated pages from David Foster Wallace's teaching copy of James Ellroy's TheBig Nowhere.
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  • Annotated pages from David Foster Wallace's teaching copy of James Ellroy's TheBig Nowhere.
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  • Inside cover from David Foster Wallace's teaching copy of Thomas Harris's TheSilence of the Lambs.
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  • Annotated pages from David Foster Wallace's teaching copy of Thomas Harris's TheSilence of the Lambs.
    Image courtesy of The Harry Ransom Center
  • Annotated pages from David Foster Wallace's teaching copy of Thomas Harris's TheSilence of the Lambs.
    Image courtesy of The Harry Ransom Center
  • Inside cover from David Foster Wallace's teaching copy of Stephen King's Carrie.
    Image courtesy of The Harry Ransom Center
  • Annotated pages from David Foster Wallace's teaching copy of Stephen King'sCarrie.
    Image courtesy of The Harry Ransom Center
  • Annotated pages from David Foster Wallace's teaching copy of Stephen King'sCarrie.
    Image courtesy of The Harry Ransom Center

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