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File consists of draft manuscript and typescript (original, 27 leaves) of Suits' unpublished work "Grasshopper Soup" as well as a typescript (original, 27 leaves) of "The Grasshopper; A Thesis Concerning the Moral Ideal of Man."

File consists of draft chapters of Suits' unpublished work "Return of the Grasshopper; Further Reflections on Games, Life and Utopia" as well as notes and brief passages from chapters. Draft chapters include:

• Reflections typescript (original, nine leaves);
• Racing File Objection Refuted typescript (original, seven leaves);
• Rebuttals from Bill manuscript (seven leaves);
• unidentified writings typescript and manuscript (originals and computer output, 31 leaves);
• unidentified notes manuscript (12 leaves);
• Paradox manuscript (3 leaves);
• unidentified writings typescript (original) and manuscript (23 leaves);
• Life as Game manuscript (2 leaves);
• Pretending and Gaming as the Two Varieties of Playing manuscript (4 leaves).

File consists of draft chapters of Suits' unpublished work "Return of the Grasshopper; Further Reflections on Games, Life and Utopia" as well as notes and brief passages from chapters. Draft chapters include:

• Late Additions typescript (computer output, 10 leaves);
• Selected Excerpts from Return of the Grasshopper typescript (computer output, 4 leaves);
• Now Notes typescript (computer output, 6 leaves);
• Ephemera typescript (computer output, 20 leaves);
• Untitled essay [Utopia] typescript (computer output, 28 leaves);
• untitled loose papers typescript (original and computer output) and manuscript (11 leaves);
• Life is a Game: Surprising First Draft typescript (original, 29 leaves).

File consists of draft copies of essays written by Bernard Suits as well as drafts of chapters of Suits' unpublished work "Return of the Grasshopper: Further Reflections on Games, Life and Utopia." Includes:

• On making a game of life typescript (original, 10 leaves);
• Chapter three: six ways to play a game without knowing it typescript (original, 3 leaves);
• Knowledge and utopia: a reply to cooper and others typescript (original, 8 leaves);
• Utopias: summary and proposal typescript (original, 4 leaves);
• untitled typescript (original, 5 leaves);
• Transition to chapter three: The fool on the hill typescript (original, 5 leaves);
• Chapter two: grasshopper soup typescript (original, 8 leaves);
• N ways to beat death typescript (original, 3 leaves);
• Related fragments on play/game manuscript and typescript (original, 22 leaves);
• Objections to the theory of utopia advanced in The Grasshopper typescript (original, 2 leaves);
• A myth for a moral cosmogony typescript (original, 3 leaves);
• Ludenics: the philosophy of play typescript (original, 8 leaves);
• Homo ludens: notes manuscript (4 leaves);
• Play and playing a game manuscript (15 leaves);
• Play and prediction manuscript (4 leaves);
• Play: questions and reflections typescript (original, 4 leaves);
• Aristotle manuscript (6 leaves);
• Ludenics typescript (original, 2 leaves);
• loose manuscript and typescript (original, 51 leaves).

One snapshot of a track and field stadium full of people, most with right arms outstretched in a Nazi salute taken during the entrance of Adolf Hitler.

Official press card and pass for Norman C. Schneider for the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany. Includes leather case and press badge with ribbon attached.

Publication about the 1936 Olympics titled "Die Woche."

Press photograph of the opening of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany taken August 1, 1936.

Ms. and ts. fragments of card games, word and number puzzles.

Clippings relating to the Olympic Games held in Berlin, Germany in 1936. Includes a view of the "Aquatic Stadium", and a clipping from the Dunville Chronicle, February 4, 1938, titled "Old Bill's Column." The author describes his visit to the annual dinner of the Kitchener-Waterloo Builders' Exchange, and Norman C. Schneider's showing of his Olympic Games motion pictures.