Manuscripts of "Days of 1964"
1) "I kept on walking." Ink, pencil, draft paper.
2) Verso of 1. "Startled, mute." Ink, pencil, draft paper. Pencil sketch.
3) "Startled mute." Ink, pencil, draft paper.
4) Verso of 3. "I turned a corner." Pencil, ink, draft paper.
5) "Dibols Notebook." Contains lines from "The Thousand and Second Night" but not "Days of 1965." Ink, draft paper. Five ink sketches.
6) Verso of 5 "I am an effigy, / No need to fear me. Love me." Ink, draft paper.
7) "The mask that tells in any language, clearly." Half-sheet. Ink.
8) "Apartment houses. Stores." Ink and pencil on draft paper. Pencil sketch.
9) Verso of 8. "Indeed / One must be desperate to love." Pencil, draft paper.
10) "It is night now." Ink, pencil, draft paper. One pencil and two ink sketches.
11) "Forgive me if you read this." Half-sheet. Ink.
12) "Open in the lamp light." Pencil, draft paper.
13) "Copied in lard." Verso of 13. Ink and pencil.
14) "I did not know what I was saying." Ink, pencil.
15) "To the simple weddings of itself & greed." Pencil.
16) "Where I hid my face."
17) "If not olympus." Pencil.
18) "Where I hid my face." Pencil.
19) "I brought home flowers from my climb." Three-quarters sheet. Ink.
20) "Days of 1964. for S. M." Ink, pencil.
21) "And read it aloud to her." Pencil.
22) "DAYS OF 1964." Ink, pencil.
23) "DAYS OF 1964." Pencil.
24) DAYS OF 1964."
25) "And read it aloud to her."
26) "DAYS OF 1964. for S." Pencil.
27) DAYS OF 1964." Pencil.
28) "And read it aloud to her."
29) "DAYS OF 1964." Pencil.
30) "I didn't <hardly knew> know what I was <thinking> saying." Pencil.
31) "Startled mute, we had stared. Delusion." Note card. Ink.
Manuscripts of "Days of 1964"
Click on any image to view and enlarge texts. The text will appear at the bottom left with viewing tools. The manuscripts are in the order Merrill placed them in before sending to Special Collections, Washington University.