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A letter from Gerhild Williams to Ed Macias about starting up a Writers Center, December 19, 1989

Pamphlet from the Rushdie Defense Committee, USA, listing the International Writers Center as a committee member

St. Louis Literary Calendar mail brochure for September 2000

Southern Illinois University Press catalog from Spring 1996 with advertisement for The Writer In Politics book

Mail brochure for The Writer in Politics

"Honorary Degree Citations" in the Amherst Alumni News. James Merrill's honorary degree from Amherst was the third for the Merrill family (Charles had received two). Amherst asked James Merrill about collecting his literary papers, which were already…

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).

Promotional poster for James Merrill's memoir A Different Person. Merrill continued revising the memoir into the galleys stage and sent to friends chapters that included them, making changes accordingly.

3 circular "campaign-style" buttons - black and white (some with a little red), say "We are Salman Rushdie"