Peter Tourville
Item
“Peter Tourville”. n.d. Series_IV_Audiovisual, James Merrill: Life and Archive, accessed February 11, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/james-merrill-life-and-archive/item/39943
- Title
- Peter Tourville
- Description
- A photograph of Peter Tourville, James Merrill's friend from the early 1960s onward, who was "country-lean from outdoor labor, with a gravelly voice and easy laugh, [and] a stoner's squint[.]" Merrill purchased Tourville a small apple orchard, where the two of them spent many quiet weekends together. He is the subject of multi-part poem, "Peter."
- Subject
- Merrill, James, 1926-1995
- Source
- James Merrill Papers (MSS083) - Box 205, Folder 34
- Relation
- Series_IV_Audiovisual
- Exhibit Cases 9-10: Love and Death
- James Merrill: Life and Art, pp. 586, 662
- Format
- Photograph
- 1 jpeg. 600 ppi
- Type
- Photograph
- Identifier
- MSS083_VI-1-c_1192.jpg
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
- Site pages
- Love and Death - Audiovisual
- Media
MSS083_VI-1-c_1192.jpg
“Peter Tourville”. n.d. Series_IV_Audiovisual, James Merrill: Life and Archive, accessed February 11, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/james-merrill-life-and-archive/item/39943