James Merrill letter to Hellen Ingram Merrill

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Merrill, James. 1950. “James Merrill Letter to Hellen Ingram Merrill”. Series_I_Correspondence, James Merrill: Life and Archive, accessed March 9, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/james-merrill-life-and-archive/item/38380

Title: James Merrill letter to Hellen Ingram Merrill
Description: James Merrill letter to Hellen Ingram Merrill with a poem draft inspired by Hans Lodeizen, shortly after his death. This later turned into "The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace," a pastoral elegy that imagined a world "under the world."
Subject: Merrill, James, 1926-1995
Creator: Merrill, James
Source: James Merrill Papers (MSS083) - Box 80, Folder 2055
Date: 1950: August 5
Relation: Series_I_Correspondence; Exhibit Cases 1-2: Love & Money; James Merrill: Life and Art, pp. 126-8; See also Hans Lodeizen silhouette and letter, Merrill's September 2, 1955 letter to Plummer, Journal 47 and Plummer's November 26, 1972 letter to Merrill
Format: 1 leaf. Recto and verso; 2 jpegs. 600 ppi
Language: English
Type: Correspondence
Identifier: JM_to_Hellen_Ingram_Merrill-032.jpg
JM_to_Hellen_Ingram_Merrill-033.jpg
Rights Holder: Washington University in St. Louis
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Item sets: Merrill; Merrill Life Archive

Site pages: Love and Money - Correspondence

Media: JM_to_Hellen_Ingram_Merrill-032.jpg; JM_to_Hellen_Ingram_Merrill-033.jpg