An Evening at Sandover Draft

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Merrill, James. 1988. “An Evening at Sandover Draft”. Series_IV_Manuscripts, James Merrill: Life and Archive, accessed February 11, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/james-merrill-life-and-archive/item/38540

Title: An Evening at Sandover Draft
Description: Fifteen pages (out of sixty total) of a corrected typescript draft of An Evening at Sandover, Merrill's first stage adaptation of the Ouija board epic, performed as part of the revived Poets' Theatre at Hasty Pudding theater at Harvard. Peter Hooten worked with Merrill on both a stage and video adaptation, to very mixed results.
Subject: Merrill, James, 1926-1995
Creator: Merrill, James
Source: James Merrill Papers (MSS083) - Box 144, Folder 3796
Date: 1988: February 6
Relation: Series_IV_Manuscripts; Exhibit Cases 9-10: Love and Death; James Merrill: Life and Art, p. 725
Format: 15 leaves. Recto.; 15 jpegs. 600 ppi.
Language: English
Type: Manuscript
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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 Death - Manuscripts

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