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Early artwork done by James Merrill. These cutouts of dancing ladies show a lifelong affinity toward drawing the female face and form, especially sophisticated, beautiful women, often in costume.

Short clip from "The Image Maker," a play by James Merrill. Merrill's theatrical production was performed by both live actors and marionette puppets. In this pivotal monologue, one of the play's puppets, Miguel, challenges his creator, The Image…

A script for James Merrill's play, "The Immortal Husband," an update of the classical myth of Aurora and Tithonus. Included here are twenty of a total sixty-five manuscript pages.

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

James Merrill reads his poem "The Victor Dog" at Behrend College of the Pennsylvania State College in Erie, Pennsylvania.

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

Tom Vitale's 1991 interview with James Merrill for A MOVEABLE FEAST.

Tom Vitale interviews James Merrill on the program "A Moveable Feast." In this episode, titled "Late Settings," Vitale and Merrill discuss the general themes in Merrill's poems and the emotions behind Merrill's writing process, as well as Merrill's…

James Merrill with Tony Harwood, one of Merrill's first friends at Lawrenceville. The two remained friends, although their friendship became strained as Tony "grew progressively more detached and paranoid."

Tony Parigory and James Merrill. "Tall, smiling, Alexandrian Tony...In his worldly wisdom, off-color jokes, and macaronic bons mots...he resembled none of Merrill's friends so much as Ephraim, the Familiar Spirit."