The largest addition in terms of volume was purchased by Fred Todd from another Tennessee Williams collector, John Bounomo. Using the item-level inventories created for the Todd Collection, staff members compared THNOC’s Williams material to that in the Bounomo Collection. Mr. Todd then purchased any items not in THNOC’s holdings. The Bounomo material builds on many sections of the Todd Collection. A significant number of periodicals and playbills and an outstanding assortment of original posters from the Broadway premieres of many of Williams’s plays were acquired from Mr. Bounomo. The cinema component was augmented by additional posters and an interesting collection of Spanish-language lobby cards. Perhaps the quirkiest item among the Bounomo material is an album commemorating the issuance of the Tennessee Williams postage stamp; the stamp was unveiled in Clarksdale, Mississippi, in October 1995.

MSS 562, Fred W. Todd Tennessee Williams Collection, Additions, accession number 2004.0107