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Cover page, title page and four sample pages from the limited edition chapbook of "Volcanic Holiday"--a "wary love poem" to Peter Hooten--with stanzas printed on separate sheets accompanied by etchings by Dorthea Tanning.

Water Street marks a turning point in James Merrill's writing; the book is "local and particular: it calls attention to where, and by implication how, the poet is living." Included here are the covers of two 1962 editions, with inscriptions and an…

James Merrill reads his poem "164 East 72nd Street" at Washington University's Simon Hall in 1994.

1979 National Book Award in Poetry citation for James Merrill’s Mirabell: Books of Numberby Elizabeth Bishop, Michael S. Harper, and Anthony Hecht.

“A la Recherche du temps perdu: Impressionism in Literature” was James Merrill's senior thesis on Proust from Amherst, 1946. At 106 pages, it is by far Merrill's longest piece of literary criticism and his most scholarly production. Merrill…

Typescript [photocopy] draft of Amherst College's President Calvin H. Plimpton's introduction for James Merrill's honorary doctorate, June 7, 1968.

James Merrill reads his poem "An Upward Look" at Washington University's Simon Hall in 1994.

Autograph letter signed from Mona Van Duyn to James Merrill, undated.

Autograph letter, signed from May Swenson to James Merrill, July 14, 1987.

Autograph letter, signed from Mona Van Duyn to James Merrill, undated.