Browse Items (206 total)

Photograph of the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Academy of American Poets. Front Row: Robert Fitzgerald, Howard Nemerov, Marie Bullock, Stanley Kunitz, William Meredith, and Robert Penn Warren. Back Row: W.S. Merwin, John Hollander,…

Typescript draft of a portion of Chapter XXI of A Different Person by James Merrill.

Clipping of James Merrill's first published poem from Junior Home Magazine, November 1934.

Photograph of David Jackson and James Merrill standing in front of a window, April 1965.

Journal entry by David Jackson about jealousy and promiscuity between James Merrill and Jackson.

James Merrill reads "Days of 1964" in January Hall at Washington University in St. Louis, 1985.

The bronzed death mask was Peter Hooten's idea, "but the juvenile author of "Death Masks"...would have appreciated it" (see Merrill's poem "Death Masks" in Love and Money, Publications).

Drawing of Athinaion Efivon 44 (James Merrill's and David Jackson's house in Athens, Greece for 15 years) by David Jackson. This illustration was sent to friends as a Christmas card in 1964.

Excerpt from Voices from Sandover, a play by James Merrill based on Merrill and David Jackson's Ouija board seances. The performance was staged at the Agassiz Theatre at Radcliffee College, produced by Peter Hooten, and directed by Joan Darling. The…

Hans Lodeizen silhouette with correspondence from Lodeizen to James Merrill on verso. The silhouette sat in Merrill's study for many years.