Hellen Plummer letter to James Merrill

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Plummer, Hellen. 1972. “Hellen Plummer Letter to James Merrill”. Series_I_Correspondence, James Merrill: Life and Archive, accessed February 11, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/james-merrill-life-and-archive/item/38391

Title: Hellen Plummer letter to James Merrill
Description: Hellen Plummer letter to James Merrill regarding "Lost in Translation" and how much his work keeps impressing her. She shows herself to be a "fair literary critic" in this letter.
Subject: Merrill, James, 1926-1995
Creator: Plummer, Hellen
Source: James Merrill Papers (MSS083) - Box 88, Folder 2147
Date: 1972: November 26
Relation: Series_I_Correspondence; Exhibit Cases 7-8: Other World; James Merrill: Life and Art, pp. 526-7; See also "Lost in Translation" drafts, Merrill's Aug. 5, 1950 letter and Sept. 2, 1955 letter to Plummer, and Journal 47
Format: 1 leaf. Recto and verso; 2 jpegs. 600 ppi.
Language: English
Type: Correspondence
Identifier: HIM_to_JM_Nov_26_1972_001.jpg
HIM_to_JM_Nov_26_1972_002.jpg
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Item sets: Merrill; Merrill Life Archive

Site pages: The Other World - Correspondence

Media: HIM_to_JM_Nov_26_1972_001.jpg; HIM_to_JM_Nov_26_1972_002.jpg