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A clip from James Merrill's play The Image Maker. The production was performed by both live actors and marionettes. In this pivotal monolgue, one of the play's puppets, Miguel, challenges his creator, The Image Maker.

Flyer advertisingThe Image Maker, a one-act verse play for two actors about Santeria, the syncretic art and religion of the Caribbean. The play featured Hooten, puppets, and a subtext about James Merrill's mother.

A mailer advertising the opening of The Immortal Husband, including an order form and a laudatory statement by Tennessee Williams.

Advertisement for The Immortal Husband by James Merrill and sponsored by the Artists Theatre in association with John Bernard Meyers at the Theatre de Lys in New York City.

Autograph draft of The Island by Robert Creeley, July 11-21, 1955.

Typescript draft of The Island by Robert Creeley, 1963.

Typescript [photocopy] draft of The Jar by Donald Finkel. This script was used for performances at Washington University in St. Louis in 1962. The Jar also appeared in the Quarterly Review of Literature.

Typescript draft ofThe Journal of the Fictive Lifeby Howard Nemerov, July-August 1963.

Poster created by Lois More Overbeck and included in the "Connecting Contexts" exhibit showing a timeline of events in Samuel Beckett's life from 1966 to 1989.

This volume is considered by many to be the finest colored plate sporting book of the nineteenth century. The text and illustrations give an imaginary biography of a typical English Master of Hounds. Alken drew and etched the thirty-six plates…