This collection, a retrospective exhibit of the work of a woman who created a unique place for herself in the world of letters, contains a sample of practically every period and every manner in Gertrude Stein’s career. It includes The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas in its entirety; selected passages from The Making of Americans; “Melanctha” from Three Lives; portraits of the painters Cezanne, Mattise, and Picasso; Tender Buttons; the opera Fours Saints in Three Acts; and poems, plays, lectures, articles, sketches, and a generous portion of her famous book on the Occupation of France, Wars I Have Seen.