James Merrill as a boy on slide

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“James Merrill as a boy on slide”, Circa early 1930s, James Merrill: Life and Archive, accessed February 11, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/james-merrill-life-and-archive/item/38537

Title: James Merrill as a boy on slide
Description: James Merrill as a boy on a slide. "As a child, Jimmy was always attended by someone...So it's striking that, as an adult, he remembered his childhood as painfully lonely...the loneliness of a young mind engaged with private thoughts of mortality, puppets, and romantic legends...Jimmy was essentially an only child."
Subject: Merrill, James, 1926-1995
Source: James Merrill Papers (MSS083) - Box 183, Folder S25
Date: Circa early 1930s
Relation: Series_VI_Audiovisual; Exhibit Cases 1-2: Love and Money; James Merrill: Life and Art, pp. 33-4
Format: Photograph; 1 jpeg. 600ppi.
Type: Photograph
Identifier: MSS083_VI-1-a_062.jpg
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Item sets: Merrill

Site pages: Love and Money - Audiovisual

Media: MSS083_VI-1-a_062.jpg