A pre-publication copy of Acker's own corrected typescript for the story 'New York City in 1979', which went on to win the 1979 Pushcart Prize, making it her first critically acclaimed work.

Original working typescript for editor Lester Cohen's memoir of his time at THE NEW YORK GRAPHIC (1924-1932), one of the earliest and most notorious tabloid newspapers of the 20th century.

Brief letter from Paul Fussell (1922-2012), the American literary critic and historian.

Detailed student notes, apparently from a teacher's training course, on the laws governing education in New York state in the late 1890s, with briefer sections of notes on the geology and geography of New York; one page is dated 1897.

Brief letter from Tyler sent to novelist Jay Neugeboren, regarding her lack of response to a request from Simon & Schuster for promotional comments about his 1985 novel BEFORE MY LIFE BEGAN.

Brief letter from Tyler sent to Sally Arteseros, editor at Doubleday, who had mailed Tyler the galleys of Beverly Lowry's 1978 novel EMMA BLUE.

Diary of one Lois B. Whitwell, written in the 'voice' of her daughter Maxine Alice Whitwell (then three years old), and updated near-daily through the year 1933.

Unpublished manuscript of a sweeping religico-political epic poem, prefaced by epigraphs from the Book of Revelations and the Book of Jonah and beginning with BIRTH, first of the "Four Regressions" ("Once I met a mad fool who lived in a Forest!..