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Typed letter, signed from John Gardner to Donald Finkel, May 1, 1961.

Typed letter, signed from Carolyn Kizer to Donald Finkel, September 28, 1962.

First edition, sixteenth printing of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett. This prompt book was used for the landmark 1975 Berlin production of Waiting for Godot at the Schiller-Theater that Beckett himself directed. Copiously marked up by Rick…

Photograph of Samuel Beckett sitting in a boat in a pond, looking directly at the camera, 1959.

Photograph of Samuel Beckett standing by a pond with his left hand on his hip, looking directly at the camera, 1959.

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

Program for "A Midsummer Night's Dream" sponsored by The Lakewood Players of the Duncan Summer School and Camp at Newport, Vermont, August 17, 1939. James Merrill plays the character Puck.

Program for "The Magic Fish-bone by Charles Dickens as interpreted by The Jimmy Merrill Marionettes," August 11, 1937.

Program for The Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry awarded to James Merrill, October 29, 1990.

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