Looking for “I”: Casting the Unnamed Heroine in Alfred Hitchcock and David O. Selznick’s Adaptation of Rebecca by Milan Hain

“…Drawing on archival documents from the Selznick Collection at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas, and on the surviving screen tests of several candidates for the main role, the author compares Fontaine’s screen tests with those of her most immediate “rivals” – Vivien Leigh, Anne Baxter, Margaret Sullavan and Loretta Young – and relates them to the vibrant exchange of opinions between Selznick and director Alfred Hitchcock for whom the film marked his Hollywood debut. …”
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Pynchon, In His Absence by Albert Rolls

“…In a footnote to “Fast Learner: The Typescript of Pynchon's V. at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin,” Luc Herman and John Krafft note that the letters Corlies (Cork) Smith graciously provided them for their study of the transformation of the typescript of V. (1963) into the published novel “may be identical to those published in an unauthorized limited edition under the title Of a Fond Ghoul in 1990.” …”
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Basil Bunting's late modernism : from Pound to poetic community by Niven, A, Alex Niven

“…The study draws extensively on unpublished manuscripts and letters held at the Basil Bunting Archive, Durham University, the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas (Austin), and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.…”