Greece - Correspondence · James Merrill: Life and Archive

Title: Kimon Friar letter to James Merrill
Description: Kimon Friar letter to James Merrill, airing his grievances and declaring simple friendship between them is impossible, coming after a decade of a "stiff, formal relationship" for the former lovers.
Subject: Merrill, James, 1926-1995
Creator: Friar, Kimon
Source: James Merrill Papers (MSS083) - Box 27, Folder 717
Date: 1962: June 14
Relation: Series_I_Correspondence; Exhibit Cases 5-6: Greece; James Merrill: Life and Art, p. 313
Language: English
Type: Correspondence
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Title: Mona Van Duyn letter to James Merrill
Description: Mona Van Duyn letter to James Merrill in which Van Duyn requests on behalf of Washington University Libraries to start collecting Merrill's literary papers at Washington University. Van Duyn’s personal inquiry persuaded Merrill to accept the invitation.
Subject: Merrill, James, 1926-1995
Creator: Van Duyn, Mona
Source: James Merrill Papers (MSS083) - Box 69, Folder 1840
Date: June 24, 1964
Relation: Series_I_Correspondence; Exhibit Cases 5-6: Greece; James Merrill: Life and Art, p. 334; See also For James Merrill: A Birthday Tribute, photograph of Van Duyn, and Merrill discussing the Modern Literature Collection.
Format: 1 leaf. Recto; 1 jpeg. 600 ppi
Language: English
Type: Correspondence
Identifier: MSS083_I_1_b_Mona_Van_Duyn_to_Merrill_19640624.jpg
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Title: James Merrill letter to Daryl Hine
Description: James Merrill letter to Daryl Hine describing his and David Jackson's latest sexual partner. Merrill mentions his new relationship with Strato Mouflouzelis and also complains of spiritual and historical debates with Tony Harwood.

See also Journal 58, the photograph of Strato Mouflouzelis, "Days of 1964" manuscript pages, and "Violent Pastoral" broadside.
Subject: Merrill, James, 1926-1995
Creator: Merrill, James
Source: James Merrill Papers (MSS083) - Box 5, Folder 73
Date: 1964: November 17
Relation: Series_I_Correspondence; Exhibit Cases 5-6: Greece; James Merrill: Life and Art, pp. 347-50
Language: English
Type: Correspondence
Identifier: Series_I-1-a_JM_to_Daryl_Hine_Nov_17_1964-001.jpg
Format: 1 leaf. Recto; 1 jpeg. 600 ppi.
Rights Holder: Washington University in St. Louis
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Title: James Merrill letter to Irma Brandeis
Description: James Merrill letter to Irma Brandeis explaining Psyche's realization in "From the Cupola," the drafts of which he had been sending to her (see also "From the Cupola" draft page).
Subject: Merrill, James, 1926-1995
Creator: Merrill, James
Source: James Merrill Papers (MSS083) - Box 1, Folder 18
Date: 1965: February 18
Relation: Series_I_Correspondence; Exhibit Cases 5-6: Greece; James Merrill: Life and Art, pp. 368-72
Language: English
Type: Correspondence
Format: 1 leaf. Recto and verso.; 2 jpegs. 600 ppi
Identifier: MSS083-I-1-a-JM-to-Irma-Brandeis-19650218-001.jpg
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Rights Holder: Washington University in St. Louis
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Title: James Merrill letter to Daryl Hine
Description: James Merrill letter to Daryl Hine including Merrill's realization that he's using psychoanalytic thinking as a tool for enchantment rather than demystification, making life and art even more intertwined (see also "Under Libra" draft).
Subject: Merrill, James, 1926-1995
Creator: Merrill, James
Source: James Merrill Papers (MSS083) - Box 3, Folder 74
Date: 1969: January 17
Relation: Series_I_Correspondence; Exhibit Cases 5-6: Greece; James Merrill: Life and Art, p. 453
Language: English
Type: Correspondence
Identifier: MSS083-I-1-a-JM-to-Daryl-Hine-19690117.jpg
Format: 1 leaf. Recto.; 1 jpeg. 600 ppi.
Rights Holder: Washington University in St. Louis
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