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This photo album, entitled "Happy Days at Stonington," includes snapshots taken around James Merrill and David Jackson's home at 107 Water Street, along with colorful commentary.

This fragment is the start of a never-completed novel about James Merrill's and David Jackson's evolving relationship with Stonington and each other.

"Voices from the Other World," published in The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace, was James Merrill's first--and for many years, only--treatment of the Ouija board séances in a poem. Merrill's supernatural and domestic life with Jackson…

Cover of David Jackson: Scenes from His Life - a "lavish chapbook" James Merrill produced for Jackson's 70th birthday, containing fourteen of David's sketches and paintings from the 1950s to 70s - each image paired with a related passage from…

A mimeographed literary magazine published by John Bernard Myers, who printed the first books of John O'Hara, John Ashbery and others. It includes "Three Sketches for Europa" by James Merrill and the short story "Kritik K. and the Chateau" by David…

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.

Printed copy of a drawing of 107 Water Street in Stonington by David Jackson.

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…