Looking at Mummy
Item
James Merrill. “Looking at Mummy.”, James Merrill's Poetry Manuscripts, accessed February 11, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/james-merrill-poetry-manuscripts/item/35642
- Title
- Looking at Mummy
- Description
- Merrill poem as transcribed by his mother. McClatchy published a facsimile of the poem in his article "The Inner Room," Raritan (Summer 1999), 19.1: 1-22. He wrote that "Because he was a devoted mother's only child or because he was the pampered son of a wealthy man, every scrap of his childhood seems to have been preserved--drawings, report cards, letters, and cards. And among all this I found a little verse, copied out in his mother's hand, and dated 29 October 1932. Its author was six years old" (12). © Literary Estate of James Merrill at Washington University Libraries.
- Creator
- James Merrill
- Date
- October 29, 1932
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
- Item sets
- Merrill
- Site pages
- "Looking at Mummy" (childhood poem)
James Merrill. “Looking at Mummy.”, James Merrill's Poetry Manuscripts, accessed February 11, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/james-merrill-poetry-manuscripts/item/35642