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Broadside advertisement for "Celebrating the Poetry of James Merrill" sponsored by Washington University in St. Louis and The Bookmark Society, April 21, 1985.

James Merrill's poem "Death Masks" from an issue of the Lawrenceville publication The Lit. The poem is a dramatic monologue spoken by a man who sells death masks made from the faces of artists.

Advertisement for "James Merrill, Poet, Will Read His Poetry in Boll Theatre" sponsored by the University of Dayton, November 7, 1984.

Printout draft of "Limerical History of the World" by Gass, for inclusion in The Tunnel.

"Not a Very Good Limerick" by Claro--the French translator of The Tunnel. Claro sent this limerick to Gass.

"On Being Photographed" by William H. Gass, Webster Review, Volume 5, Number 2 (Fall 1980)

"The Poet: Private" in Saturday Review, featuring the poem "Yannina" and an interview with literary critic and good friend, David Kalstone. They discuss "Yannina," a poem about coming to terms with the past, and dedicated to Stephen Yenser. In the…

"Violent Pastoral," here in a broadside printed by Laurence Scott, is a poem "set in a Greece of the mind." It's unclear whether Strato Mouflouzelis is the eagle and James Merrill the lamb, or vice versa.

See also photograph of Strato…

Cover of David Jackson: Scenes from His Life - a "lavish chapbook" James Merrill produced for Jackson's 70th birthday, containing fourteen of David's sketches and paintings from the 1950s to 70s - each image paired with a related passage from…

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.