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Title: Maria Mitsotaki and James Merrill
Description: Maria Mitsotaki and James Merrill. Merrill's face is bound as a result of Bell's Palsy, an episode recounted in "The Thousand and Second Night" (see also the manuscript pages for that poem).

"[Maria] was pert, pretty, small and sweet...and able to choose her friends. [Jimmy] adopted her as a mock mother, making himself small in her presence, as if he were her boy, her puppet."
Subject: Merrill, James, 1926-1995
Creator: Merrill, James
Source: James Merrill Papers (MSS083) - Box 200, Folder 25
Relation: Series_VI_Audiovisual; Exhibit Cases 5-6: Greece; James Merrill: Life and Art, pp. 308-9
Type: Photograph
Date: circa early 1960s
Format: Photograph; 1 jpeg. 600 ppi.
Identifier: MSS083_VI-1-c_497.jpg
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Title: Strato Mouflouzelis
Description: Strato Mouflouzelis, "...the bittersweet muse of [James Merrill's] middle years..."

See also "Days of 1964" manuscripts, November 17, 1964 letter to Daryl Hine and "Violent Pastoral" broadside.
Subject: Merrill, James, 1926-1995
Creator: Merrill, James
Source: James Merrill Papers (MSS083) - Box 205, Folder 7
Relation: Series_VI_Audiovisual; Exhibit Cases 5-6: Greece; James Merrill: Life and Art, p. 348
Type: Photograph
Format: 1 photograph.; 1 jpeg. 600 ppi.
Identifier: MSS083_VI-1-c_1091.jpg
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Title: Judith Moffett
Description: Judith Moffett, who "...brought a strong moral idealism, sensitivity to the perspective of gay men, and an appetite for literature."
Subject: Merrill, James, 1926-1995
Creator: Merrill, James
Source: James Merrill Papers (MSS083) - Box 204, Folder 33
Relation: Series_VI_Audiovisual; Exhibit Cases 5-6: Greece; James Merrill: Life and Art, p. 416
Type: Photograph
Format: Photograph; 1 jpeg. 600 ppi.
Identifier: MSS083_VI-1-c_1055.jpg
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Title: David McIntosh
Description: David McIntosh, a disciplined, reserved painter of abstract landscapes who drew a "'firm and gentle line' between love and friendship, and what he wanted was the latter."
Subject: Merrill, James, 1926-1995
Creator: Merrill, James
Source: James Merrill Papers (MSS083) - Box 204, Folder 20
Relation: Series_VI_Audiovisual; Exhibit Cases 5-6: Greece; James Merrill: Life and Art, p. 441; See also Journal 7 and "Under Libra" manuscripts.
Type: Photograph
Format: Photograph; 1 jpeg. 600 ppi.
Identifier: MSS083_VI-1-c_1008.jpg
Date: Not dated
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Title: Tony Parigory and James Merrill
Description: Tony Parigory and James Merrill. "Tall, smiling, Alexandrian Tony...In his worldly wisdom, off-color jokes, and macaronic bons mots...he resembled none of Merrill's friends so much as Ephraim, the Familiar Spirit."
Subject: Merrill, James, 1926-1995
Creator: Merrill, James
Source: James Merrill Papers (MSS083) - Box 198, Folder 5
Relation: Series_VI_Audiovisual; Exhibit Cases 5-6: Greece; James Merrill: Life and Art, p. 307; See also November 27, 1973 letter from Merrill to Parigory, "Tony: Ending the Life" manuscript pages, and For James Merrill: A Birthday Tribute.
Type: Photograph
Format: 1 photograph.; 1 jpeg. 600 ppi.
Identifier: MSS083_VI-1-c_241.jpg
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Title: Stephen Yenser
Description: Stephen Yenser, Merrill's student, friend, correspondent, literary executor, and "ideal reader."
Subject: Merrill, James, 1926-1995
Creator: Merrill, James
Source: James Merrill Papers (MSS083) - Box 206, Folder 25
Relation: Series_VI_Audiovisual; Exhibit Cases 5-6: Greece; James Merrill: Life and Art, pp. 494-6
Type: Photograph
Format: Photograph; 1 jpeg. 600 ppi.
Identifier: MSS083_VI-1-c_1286.jpg
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Title: Mona Van Duyn
Description: Mona Van Duyn: fellow prize-winning poet, early champion and good friend of James Merrill, she successfully solicited Merrill's literary papers for Washington University. In this photo she is standing in front of a painting of herself.
Subject: Merrill, James, 1926-1995
Creator: Merrill, James
Source: James Merrill Papers (MSS083) - Box 205, Folder 39
Relation: Series_VI_Audiovisual; Exhibit Cases 5-6: Greece; James Merrill: Life and Art, photo inset and p. 344; See also For James Merrill: A Birthday Tribute, Van Duyn's June 24, 1964 letter to Merrill, and Merrill discussing the Modern Literature Collection.
Type: Photograph
Format: Photograph; 1 jpeg. 600 ppi.
Identifier: MSS083_VI-1-c_1208.jpg
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/