abstract:The Harry Ransom Center is an archive, library and museum at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in the collection of literary and cultural artifacts from the United States and Europe for the purpose of advancing the study of the arts and humanities. The Ransom Center houses 36 million literary manuscripts, 1 million rare books, 5 million photographs, and more than 100,000 works of art.
" It was while studying the manuscript contained in an archive at the HarryRansomCenter at the University of Texas at Austin that Mr. Orenstein first encountered the missing line: "I thought, what is that instrument doing here?