Photograph: Gary Wayne Gilbert

This travel Scrabble board belonged to Graham Greene (1904–91) and is part of the Burns Library’s extensive Graham Greene Library and Archive. The novelist was an avid and notorious player. In “A Long Game of Scrabble: A Memoir of Graham Greene,” printed in the Paris Review in 1989, the playwright and Ibsen biographer Michael Meyer recalled a 1959–60 trip around the world with Greene, each evening punctuated by a round of Scrabble and Greene’s “deeply dubious” spelling.