Kimon Friar letter to James Merrill

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Friar, Kimon. 1962. “Kimon Friar Letter to James Merrill”. Series_I_Correspondence, James Merrill: Life and Archive, accessed February 12, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/james-merrill-life-and-archive/item/38386

Title: Kimon Friar letter to James Merrill
Description: Kimon Friar letter to James Merrill, airing his grievances and declaring simple friendship between them is impossible, coming after a decade of a "stiff, formal relationship" for the former lovers.
Subject: Merrill, James, 1926-1995
Creator: Friar, Kimon
Source: James Merrill Papers (MSS083) - Box 27, Folder 717
Date: 1962: June 14
Relation: Series_I_Correspondence; Exhibit Cases 5-6: Greece; James Merrill: Life and Art, p. 313
Language: English
Type: Correspondence
Identifier: Series_I-1-b_Kimon_Friar_to_JM_Jun_14_1962-001.jpg
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Format: 3 leaves. Recto.; 3 jpegs. 600 dpi
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Item sets: Merrill; Merrill Life Archive

Site pages: Greece - Correspondence

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