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Dan, Here is a list of the students who will be accompanying me on 2 March. Below is a very quick list of the authors they are working with.
aalbert Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, Steinbeck, Emile Zola, Jane Austen, Cervantes, Paule Marshall, John Barth, Pam Houston, e.e. cummings, Stephen Dunn, Tom Robbins, Faulkner, Swift (Gulliver's Travels), Mark Twain (Huck Finn), Willa Cather, Beowulf, Oscar Wilde, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Linda Brent, Kurt Vonnegut. The only author to leap out at me as strongly represented by Penn's holdings is Swift. A first edition of Gulliver would be nice. Otherwise I am hoping for a bit of a pep-talk/show-and-tell session. Few of these students have ever been in a research library. They will be wowed simply by its size. I want to let them see some of the rare book materials that they might legitimately work with. I'll send a more coherent list later this week. Please don't do much work pulling stuff to match their authors. I'm thinking more along the lines of the first folio, a Nuremburg chronicle, a neat mss. or two (that points at collections), perhaps the audubon folio. Just to open their eyes. I'll be in touch before the week is out. tkinsell
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