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Program for "The Artists Theater," including "The Bait," a one-act play in which James Merrill incorporates psychoanalysis. Merrill first met David Jackson after a performance.

Program for the "Jimmy Merrill Marionettes" during which he performed "The Magic Fish-bone" in an ambitious production of the Charles Dickens children's story, which Merrill staged at age 11. Puppets always fascinated Merrill, and he created his own…

Shirley Baker, Helen Vendler, and James Merrill at "James Merrill: A Life in Writing" symposium at Washington University, Nov. 18-19, 1994. Vendler is an esteemed professor and poetry critic who had been championing Merrill's work at least since…

Supplementary Report for James Merrill from Southampton Country School, one of a number of schools he attended due to the Merrills moving between houses seasonally.

Typescript draft of table of contents for A Scattering of Salts by James Merrill.

Autograph and typescript draft of table of contents for Nights and Days by James Merrill.

Telegram from Charles Merrill to James Merrill, taken from "The Immortal Husband" scrapbook in the James Merrill Papers. The telegram includes advice on how to take failure if the play is not "a hit."

James Merrill reads "The Blue Grotto" from The Sunken Garden in 1993.

James Merrill reads his sonnet sequence "The Broken Home" in Brown Hall at Washington University, 1968.

James Merrill reads from "The Changing Light at Sandover" with Peter Hooten at Washington University's Simon Hall in 1994.