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Several years ago, Mallory contacted Leslie A. Morris, Harvard’s curator of modern books and manuscripts, to inquire about the University’s interest in purchasing the archive, which provides insight into the life of the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, journalist, and playwright who died...
The collection includes correspondence between the pair—”No steamy love letters, I’m afraid,” Morris said—transcripts of Mallory interviewing Mailer, photographs, press clippings, scraps of paper saved from her writing lessons with Mailer, and an unpublished memoir...
Morris said she is “a little ticked” by the media’s focus on the collection’s sexual content. Harvard, she said, did not purchase the collection solely for its explicit material.
“When we acquire collections of material, there often is sex in it because people are human beings,” Morris said. “It’s very weird to have a completely sexless collection.”
According to Morris, Harvard purchased the collection mainly for its insight into Mailer’s “method of working” as a writer. Mailer’s comments on the manuscript of Mallory’s unpublished novel “When I...