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...Both Vidal and the University of Wisconsin felt that the collection had grown “out of their scope,” Morris said...
Famed historian David Herbert Donald was the first to suggest that Harvard should house the Vidal collection. Donald, who is Warren professor of American history emeritus, had become acquainted with Vidal while writing a biography on Abraham Lincoln, the subject of one of Vidal’s best-known novels...
...time, though, Vidal’s interests returned to fiction and nonfiction writing—“Vidal really saw himself as a novelist,” Morris said...
While at Vidal’s villa, Walsh and Vidal agreed that Harvard—which already had a near complete collection of Vidal’s printed materials—was a more appropriate permanent location for the manuscripts and correspondences than the University of Wisconsin...
...Vidal and the universities reached a “three-way agreement” and the books were transferred to Harvard’s library, Morris said...