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MetroLines: Transit Poetry from Around the World, an exhibit featuring mass transit poetry posters. Reception and reading sponsered by the International Writers Center and Arts in Transit, January 24, 1996

Page proofs of A Scattering of Salts by James Merrill.

Autograph and typescript draft of table of contents for Nights and Days by James Merrill.

Typescript draft of The Black Swan by James Merrill.

Typescript draft of table of contents for A Scattering of Salts by James Merrill.

Clipping of James Merrill's first published poem from Junior Home Magazine, November 1934.

Journal 16 captures the visit to the Mayo Clinic during which Merrill was tested for HIV and received the diagnosis of HIV positive. The entry includes haikus, some of which would appear in "Prose of Departure," a 14-part haibun poem.

The Yellow Pages cover mock-up for the paperback edition of this limited edition volume, which compiled uncollected poems composed between 1946 and 1971. The book was published in cloth (50 copies) and paperback editions (750-800 copies) by Temple…

Lawrentian, vol. 56 no. 1. This issue of the Amherst alumni magazine features a cover story on poetry entitled "The Uncertain Future of Poetry" that contains an interview with James Merrill.

Jim's Book, Charles Merrill's surprise gift for James Merrill for the Christmas of 1942. The book was privately printed and contained James Merrill's poetry and prose written while at Lawrenceville School.