The Collections
The collection of materials related to A Lesson fills thirty-eight folders—over a cubic foot—and consists mostly of manuscript and typescript drafts along with two sets of galley proofs. The following galleries represent only a small fraction of the full collections, focusing on the materials featured in the keyword entries. We've adapted Pierre-Marc de Biasi's "typology of genetic documentation" to organize these page-scans into two phases of the novel's lifecycle: typescript drafts and publication documents. See the Gaines Center's finding aid for a fuller account of the subseries for A Lesson. As you proceed through the image galleries, click on any page-scan to see how contributors have annotated it or used it in their keyword entries.