page_title: Harry Ransom Center
section_title: Literature
hierarchical_section_title: Harry Ransom Center / Notable collections / Literature
caption_attribution_description: English: This is the first full page of George Aiken's original manuscript for his stage adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin from the first performance at Peale's Troy Museum. The manuscripts are part of the George C. Howard and Family Collection at the Harry Ransom Center.
context_page_description: The Harry Ransom Center is an archive, library and museum at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in the collection of literary and cultural artifacts from the United States, Latin America and Europe for the purpose of advancing the study of the arts and humanities. The Ransom Center houses 36 million literary manuscripts, one million rare books, five million photographs, and more than 100,000 works of art.
  The Center has a reading room for scholars and galleries which display rotating exhibitions of works and objects from the collections. In the 2015-2016 academic year, the center hosted nearly 6,000 research visits resulting in the publication of over 145 books.
context_section_description: Three copies of the 1623 First Folio of William Shakespeare's plays
  A suppressed 1865 first edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, one of only 23 copies known to exist.
  The first edition of the 1572 Portuguese book Os Lusíadas, by Luis de Camões.
  The personal libraries of writers such as Ezra Pound, Evelyn Waugh, Alice Corbin Henderson, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and the Coleridge family
  Extensive manuscript collections of George Atherton Aitken, Lewis Carroll, Doris Lessing, Aleister Crowley, James Joyce, T. E. Lawrence, D. H. Lawrence, T.H. White, Carson McCullers, Norman Mailer, Anne Sexton, Don DeLillo, Graham Greene, Brian Moore, Erle Stanley Gardner, David Foster Wallace, Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Bowen, J. M. Coetzee, Kazuo Ishiguro, Julia Alvarez, Billy Collins, T. C. Boyle, McSweeney's, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Marthe Bibesco and Ian McEwan.
  Edgar Allan Poe's writing desk
  A large collection of rare and valuable comic books
  A writing journal kept by Jack Kerouac in preparation for writing On the Road (1957)
  The Cardigan manuscript of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
  A rare 1904 first edition of The Book of the Law (Liber AL) by Aleister Crowley (among other original Crowley first editions), also known as the Vellum books but more popularly known as the Holy Book of Thelema.
  Tarot cards hand-colored by Aleister Crowley
  The Thomas James Wise collection consists of bibliographies and catalogs created by Wise and miscellaneous manuscripts and correspondence relating to Wise's forgeries and life.
  The records of the Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. publishing company.
caption: George L. Aiken's original manuscript for his stage adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852. From the George C. Howard and Family Collection, Harry Ransom Center.[22]
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