James Merrill Papers

The James Merrill Papers hold a wide variety of materials that deeply document James Ingram Merrill's entire life, including 112 boxes of correspondence, and thousands of pages of heavily annotated notebooks, typescripts, worksheets, and galleys towards poems, fiction, and drama. Extensive journals, Ouija board transcripts, photographs, realia, ephemera and more provide further insight into Merrill’s rich and complex inner, professional and social circles.

Only a portion of this collection is available digitally. For additional information about the collection, including portions not digitized, please consult the finding aid.