Autograph letter, signed from James Merrill to Mona Van Duyn, September 6, 1959. Merrill comments on reviews of Van Duyn's book, Valentines to the Wide World.
Seemingly without 24 hours, in violation of MO Sunshine Laws, notice to media the location of the meeting was moved from City Hall in Ferguson to a Catholic church at the edge of the city. Meeting was also closed door, with the exception to Ferguson…