Maria Mitsotaki and James Merrill

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Merrill, James, “Maria Mitsotaki and James Merrill”, circa early 1960s, James Merrill's Poetry Manuscripts, accessed February 11, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/james-merrill-poetry-manuscripts/item/38544

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
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Item sets: Merrill

Site pages: Mirror Image: "The Thousand and Second Night"

Media: MSS083_VI-1-c_497.jpg