Ian McEwan. In 1983, the institution's name was changed from the Humanities Research Center to the Harry Ransom Center. Notable collections Two prominent items in the Ransom Center's collections are a Gutenberg Bible (one of only 21 complete copies known to exist) and Nicéphore Niépce's c. 1826 View from the Window at Le Gras, the first successful permanent photograph from nature. Both of these objects are on permanent display in the main lobby. Beyond these, the center houses many culturally important documents and artifacts. Particular strengths include modern literature, performing arts, and photography. Besides the Gutenberg Bible and the photograph, notable holdings include: Literature Three copies of the 1623 First Folio of William Shakespeare's plays A suppressed 1865 first edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, one of only 23 copies known to exist. The first edition of the 1572 Portuguese book Os Lusíadas, by Luis de Camões. The personal libraries of writers such as Gabriel García Márquez, Alice Corbin Henderson, Ezra Pound, Evelyn Waugh, and the Coleridge family. Extensive manuscript collections of George Atherton Aitken, Julia Alvarez, Julian Barnes, Marthe Bibesco, Elizabeth Bowen, T. C. Boyle, Lewis Carroll, J. M. Coetzee, Billy Collins, Aleister Crowley, Don DeLillo, Gabriel García Márquez, Erle Stanley Gardner, Graham Greene, Kazuo Ishiguro, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, T. E. Lawrence, Doris Lessing, Norman Mailer, Carson McCullers, Ian McEwan, McSweeney's, Brian Moore, Anne Sexton, David Foster Wallace, and T.H. White. Edgar Allan Poe's writing desk A large collection of rare and valuable comic books A writing journal kept by Jack Kerouac in preparation for writing On the Road (1957) The Cardigan manuscript of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales A rare 1904 first edition of The Book of the Law (Liber AL) by Aleister Crowley (among other original Crowley first editions), also known as the Vellum books but more popularly known as the Holy Book of Thelema. Tarot cards hand-colored by Aleister Crowley The Thomas James Wise collection consists of bibliographies and catalogs created by Wise and miscellaneous manuscripts and correspondence relating to Wise's forgeries and life. The records of the Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. publishing company. Theatre and performing arts The papers of Stella Adler, Frith Banbury, Sebastian Barry, Samuel Beckett, Paul Bowles, Richard Buckle, Edward Gordon Craig, T. S. Eliot, Harry Frazee, Spalding Gray, David Hare, Lillian Hellman, Harry Houdini, Anne Jackson, Adrienne Kennedy, David Mamet, Terrence McNally, Arthur Miller, John Osborne, Peter O'Toole, J. B. Priestley,