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According to Morris, he allowed researchers access to his work for purposes of literary criticism, but he wanted his personal correspondence kept private.
“[Updike] was a scholarship kid and I think Harvard was a very different place from where he had grown up,” Morris said. “He appreciated the opportunities he had here.”
After moving to New York for about two years after graduating, Updike returned to Massachusetts to live just an hour away from Harvard Yard until he died, according to Morris.
Morris said some of the more unexpected materials include Updike’s childhood work, including a copy of a short story he had submitted to the New Yorker with the rejection slip attached to the front.
Updike originally hoped to be a cartoonist and pursued the interest as president of the Harvard Lampoon. Some of his self-portraits from this time reveal “a move private side of Updike that hasn’t been seen before,” Morris said.