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Photograph of James Merrill receiving an honorary doctorate at Amherst College from Calvin H. Plimpton, June 7, 1968.

Program for the Thirtieth Annual National Books Awards, April 25, 1979. James Merrill was awarded the prize in poetry for Mirabell: Books of Number.

Typescript of the 1979 National Books Award for Poetry citation for Mirabell: Books of Number by James Merrill.

Autograph draft of "The Next to Last Scene" by James Merrill written in his journal the day before his death.

Clippings from "Lit Review" by Mr. W. L. Frederici concerning Merrill from The Lawrence at Amherst College, January 15, 1943.

Typescript drafts of the James Merrill's foreword to Recitative edited by J.D. McClatchy, July 1985.

Olio, Amherst College's yearbook featuring James Merrill, 1946.

Clipping of James Merrill's first published poem from Junior Home Magazine, November 1934.

Newspaper clipping of "When a Poet Raises Spirits at Ouija Board" by Paul Anastasi from the International Herald Tribune, March 8, 1978.

Newspaper clipping of "Pulitzer Bullish on Merrill '47" by David Applefield from the Amherst Student.