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Printout draft of "Dis.covery," later published as "In Defense of the Book," in Harper's Magazine, Australian Financial Review, Los Angeles Times, The Best American Essays of 2000, and as a chapbook, then collected in A Temple of Texts.

Printout draft of "The Apocalypse Museum," an excerpt from Middle C, published in Conjunctions, No. 27, 2001.

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

Typescript draft of The Bait by James Merrill.

Typescript draft of "Mr. Pope and Mr. Pratt" by James Merrill most likely written during his time at Amherst, circa 1940's.

Typescript drafts of the James Merrill's foreword to Recitative edited by J.D. McClatchy, July 1985.