Sears, “Sears Typewriter”, Not dated, William H. Gass: The Soul Inside the Sentence, accessed February 11, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/gass/item/57621

Title

Sears Typewriter

Description

Gass used this typewriter from about 1968 to 1973 when he was working on Willie Master’s Lonesome Wife, The Tunnel, Cartesian Sonata, and essays that would appear in Fiction and the Figures of Life. He took it with him to Europe in 1970 for a year-long fellowship.

Date

Not dated

Type

Physical Object

Format

Typewriter

Creator

Sears

Source

Accession: MS2024-026

Acquired from: Mary Gass

Rights

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Sears, “Sears Typewriter”, Not dated, William H. Gass: The Soul Inside the Sentence, accessed February 11, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/gass/item/57621