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<p>The Papers Chase
By RACHEL DONADIO
Published: March 25, 2007
When writers die, their work lives on - and their papers go to Texas. Or Yale, Harvard, Emory, the New York Public Library, the British Library and other scholarly institutions that collect authors’ manuscripts and correspondence. How such papers change hands - and find monetary value - is the result of a peculiar alchemy between market forces and literary reputations.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/25/books/review/Donadio.t.html?_r=1&ref=books&oref=slogin[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/25/books/review/Donadio.t.html?_r=1&ref=books&oref=slogin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>This is exactly what schools with less resources like Princeton have been complaining about for some time…</p>

<p>The paper chase
As the cost of acquiring manuscripts soars, Princeton increasingly finds itself on the sidelines </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/~paw/archive_new/PAW05-06/05-1116/features_manuscript.html[/url]”>http://www.princeton.edu/~paw/archive_new/PAW05-06/05-1116/features_manuscript.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;