university of oregon in 1959, ken kesey went down to the bay area to study creative writing, at malcolm crowley in the creative writing program, and he wrote extensively with his -- to his friend and sampling of the letters in the collection, and early one from august, summer of 1959, and somebody, and undergraduate at the university of oregon, the repository in 1998, read all the letters and each of these letters, not only does the scholar have access to the original letter, these annotations, letters that tell their research about who the people are, the letter they are talking about. about to gather, researchers gathering information in the letters scattered throughout the letters, details about what he is doing, things that are happening personally to him. they adopted a daughter, they had a baby, talked about faith, work, at stanford university, all kinds of personal information is presented to these letters. this is a letter in summer of 59, signed the letter. this is the original manuscript for one flew over the cuckoo's nest. this copy begins with page 2, or the earliest manuscript for

ken kesey went down to the bay area to study creative writing with wallace stegner, and later malcolm crowley at stanford university in the creative writing program there. when he was there he wrote extensively with, to his friend, came babs. as assembly of of the letter we have in the collection. this was in early one from august, some of 1959. and somebody who was an undergraduate at the university of oregon came to our repository in 1998 to read all the letters and then he did annotations about each of these letters. so not only does the scholar have access to the original letter, but they had these annotations and abstracts of the letters that tell the researcher detail about likely that people are in the letter that he is talking about. and so this is just a fabulous resource for researchers gathering information from the letters. gathered throughout all the letters are details about what he's doing, things that are happening personally to him. they adopted a daughter. they had a baby. he talks about faith work in the library at stanford university. just all different kinds of personal i