James Merrill as a boy on slide

James Merrill as a boy on slide

Merrill, James, 1926-1995

James Merrill as a boy on a slide. "As a child, Jimmy was always attended by someone...So it's striking that, as an adult, he remembered his childhood as painfully lonely...the loneliness of a young mind engaged with private thoughts of mortality, puppets, and romantic legends...Jimmy was essentially an only child."

James Merrill Papers (MSS083) - Box 183, Folder S25

Circa early 1930s

Series_VI_Audiovisual

Exhibit Cases 1-2: Love and Money

James Merrill: Life and Art, pp. 33-4

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