Love and Death - Audiovisual · James Merrill: Life and Archive

Love and Death - Audiovisual

Title: Peter Hooten
Description: A photo of Peter Hooten, James Merrill's last partner. Their relationship started in 1983, when Hooten declared his love for Merrill "on Valentine's Eve," in Key West, Florida.
Subject: Merrill, James, 1926-1995
Source: James Merrill Papers (MSS083) - Box 198, Folder 21
Relation: Series_VI_Audiovisual; Exhibit cases 9-10: Love and Death; James Merrill: Life and Art, p. 666
Format: 1 Photograph; 1 jpeg. 600 ppi
Type: Photograph
Identifier: MSS083_VI-1-c_291.jpg
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Title: Hooten, Merrill, and Yenser
Description: Hooten, Merrill, Yenser in a photo capturing a happy moment between the three.
Subject: Merrill, James, 1926-1995
Creator: Merrill, James,
Source: James Merrill Papers (MSS083) - Box 204, Folder 10
Relation: Series_VI_Audiovisual; Exhibit Cases 9-10: Love and Death
Type: Photograph
Format: 1 photograph.; 1 jpeg. 600 ppi.
Identifier: MSS083_VI-1-c_970.jpg
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Title: Richard & Charlee Wilbur
Description: Richard & Charlee Wilbur, Merrill's Key West neighbors. Richard Wilbur was a fellow Amherst grad and accomplished poet, as well as a longtime friend and supporter of Merrill's work. Charlee Wilbur played matchmaker with Merrill and Peter Hooten. Richard celebrated his birthday with Merrill (March 1 and 3 respectively) for a decade by "trading deftly rhymed gift cards."
Subject: Merrill, James, 1926-1995
Creator: Merrill, James
Source: James Merrill Papers (MSS083) - Box 214, Folder 40
Relation: Series_VI_Audiovisual; Exhibit Cases 9-10: Love and Death; James Merrill: Life and Art, photo insert and p. 758; See also For James Merrill: A Birthday Tribute
Type: Photograph
Format: 1 photograph.; 1 jpeg. 600 ppi.
Identifier: MSS083_VI-1-c_2442.jpg
Date: not dated
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Title: Jim Boatwright
Description: Jim Boatwright, a.k.a. "the Colonel," was a professor at Washington and Lee University and editor of the literary magazine Shenandoah. Merrill had gotten to know Boatwright in Athens, although he also lived in Key West. Like Merrill, Boatwright died of AIDS.
Subject: Merrill, James, 1926-1995
Creator: Merrill, James
Source: James Merrill Papers (MSS083) - Box 196, Folder 4
Relation: Series_VI_Audiovisual; Exhibit Cases 9-10: Love and Death; James Merrill: Life and Art, p. 622
Type: Photograph
Format: 1 photograph.; 1 jpeg. 600 ppi.
Identifier: MSS083_VI-1-c_013.jpg
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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
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Title: Shirley Baker, Helen Vendler, and James Merrill
Description: Shirley Baker, Helen Vendler, and James Merrill at "James Merrill: A Life in Writing" symposium at Washington University, Nov. 18-19, 1994. Vendler is an esteemed professor and poetry critic who had been championing Merrill's work at least since 1972. The symposium was organized by Holly Hall, Head of Special Collections at Washington University, and included speakers such as Rachel Hadas, Richard Kenney, Stephen Yenser, and Vendler.
Subject: Merrill, James, 1926-1995
Source: James Merrill Papers (MSS083) - Box 187, Folder 50
Date: 1994: November 18-19
Relation: Series_VI_Audiovisual; Exhibit Cases 9-10: Love and Death; James Merrill: Life and Art, p. 784
Type: Photograph
Format: Photograph; 1 jpeg. 600 ppi.
Identifier: MSS083_VI-1-a_820.jpg
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Title: James Merrill and David Jackson at the Ouija board
Description: James Merrill and David Jackson at Ouija board in Stonington. The photo was taken by Harry Pemberton, who took a roll of the mediums in action.
Subject: Merrill, James, 1926-1995
Creator: Pemberton, Harry
Source: James Merrill Papers (MSS083) - Box 234
Date: 1983
Relation: Series_VI_Audiovisual; Exhibit Cases 9-10: Love and Death; James Merrill: Life and Art, pp. 663-4
Type: Photograph
Format: 1 photograph.; 1 jpeg. 600 ppi.
Identifier: MSS083_VI-1-g_JM_and_David_Jackson_at_Ouija_board_1983.jpg
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