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James Merrill letter to Hellen Ingram Merrill with a poem draft inspired by Hans Lodeizen, shortly after his death. This later turned into "The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace," a pastoral elegy that imagined a world "under the world."

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