Newspaper clippings related to Charles Merrill's and Hellen Ingram Merrill's divorce

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“Newspaper Clippings Related to Charles Merrill’s and Hellen Ingram Merrill’s Divorce”. n.d. Series_VIII_Ephemera, James Merrill: Life and Archive, accessed February 11, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/james-merrill-life-and-archive/item/38708

Title: Newspaper clippings related to Charles Merrill's and Hellen Ingram Merrill's divorce
Description: Newspaper clippings related to Charles Merrill's and Hellen Ingram Merrill's divorce. The "broken home" had a profound effect on James Merrill remembering his childhood as a lonely one.
Subject: Merrill, James, 1926-1995
Source: James Merrill Papers (MSS083) - Box 296, Folder 5780
Relation: Series_VIII_Ephemera; Exhibit Cases 1-2: Love and Money; James Merrill: Life and Art, pp. 45-6, 53, 60
Language: English
Type: Clippings
Format: 2 jpegs. 600 ppi.
Identifier: Three_newspaper_clippings_related_to_Charles_Merrill's_and_Hellen_Ingram_Merrill's_divorce, 1938-9-001.jpg
Three_newspaper_clippings_related_to_Charles_Merrill's_and_Hellen_Ingram_Merrill's_divorce, 1938-9-002.jpg
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Item sets: Merrill; Merrill Life Archive

Site pages: Love and Money - Ephemera

Media: Three_newspaper_clippings_related_to_Charles_Merrill's_and_Hellen_Ingram_Merrill's_divorce, 1938-9-001.jpg; Three_newspaper_clippings_related_to_Charles_Merrill's_and_Hellen_Ingram_Merrill's_divorce, 1938-9-002.jpg