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Autograph and typescript draft of "18 West 11th Street" by James Merrill.

Program for "A Midsummer Night's Dream" sponsored by The Lakewood Players of the Duncan Summer School and Camp at Newport, Vermont, August 17, 1939. James Merrill plays the character Puck.

"Amherst Bard wins Holyoke Poet Award" from THE JEFF. Merrill won the prestigious Glascock Poetry Prize for "The Broken Bowl," "The Formal Lovers" and "The Black Swan," all written in Kimon Friar's class. This win was a harbinger of many awards to…

"Among the Cottagers at Southampton," an article including a photo of and caption on "Master Jimmie Merrill." Merrill most often pictured Southampton and "the Orchard" when he thought of "home."

This entry includes two typescript draft pages (among the 40 worksheets Merrill saved) with holograph corrections and drawings showing his "engagement in verbal self-analysis" and reflecting "the intimate, brooding voice in Merrill's notebooks." The…

Autograph draft of "Autobiography" by James Merrill. Most likely written during his time at Amherst, circa 1946.

Broadside advertisement for "Celebrating the Poetry of James Merrill" sponsored by Washington University in St. Louis and The Bookmark Society, April 21, 1985.

Published inBraving the Elements,"Days of 1935" was a fantasy narrative about being kidnapped as a boy, à la the "Lindbergh baby," reflecting a real fear the wealthy had after the kidnapping and death of Charles Lindbergh's infant son, in…

Published in Late Settings, "Days of 1941 and '44" recalls Lawrenceville School and Merrill using his diaries to become a "poet of memory." The poem is dedicated to David Mixsell, his arch-nemesis at Lawrenceville, who would die in Europe in World…

"Days of 1964" was published in Nights and Days. Included here are two typescript draft pages (of a total thirty-two manuscript pages) with holograph corrections, drafts, and sketches. The poem documents his life in Greece and love for Strato…