Thomas F. Staley, 86, director of the Harry Ransom Center at University of Texas at Austin for 25 years until retiring in 2013, died March 29. As director, he pursued the acquisition of notable archives, including the papers of Norman Mailer, Doris Lessing, Tom Stoppard, James Joyce’s translator Stuart Gilbert, and the Watergate papers of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Prior to joining the Harry Ransom Center, Staley acquired literary collections for University of Tulsa’s McFarlin Library.