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James Merrill's National Book Award for Mirabell: Books of Number. It was Merrill's second National Book Award win in 12 years. Merrill gave the prize money to Hubbell Pierce, inventor of the bat wallpaper at 107 Water Street where many…

Autograph [photocopy] notes for James Merrill's reading during "James Merrill: A Life in Writing," sponsored by Washington University Libraries, November 19, 1994. In commemoration of the Modern Literature Collection’s 30th anniversary.

During the October 8 and 10, 1979 séances, Merrill finds out about and communicates with the recently deceased Elizabeth Bishop, an esteemed poet who influenced his own work and a close friend.

Typescript outline for A Different Person by James Merrill.

Page proofs for A Different Person by James Merrill.

Page proofs of A Scattering of Salts by James Merrill.

Painting of a bust of James Merrill as a child on the rooftop terrace of Athinaion Efivon 44 house in Athens, Greece, by David Jackson.

Audio recording of James Merrill reading "Pola Diva," (a translation of Alexandrian poet Ayoub Sinano) in Brown Hall at Washington University in Saint Louis, 1968.

A portrait of James Merrill as a child from the Mary Boatwright Collection of James Merrill Papers.

Portraits of David Jackson and James Merrill by Larry Rivers, an artist, musician and filmmaker who was an early beneficiary of the Ingram Merrill Foundation.