
In Thailand, during his round-the-world tour in the mid-1950's.

JM at the grave of Keats in Rome, early 1950's.

In Greece.

JM with his Greek friend Maria Mitsotakis, "the muse of my off days," Athens, early 1960s. Merrill's face is bound as a result of Bell's Palsy, an episode recounted in his poem "The Thousand and Second Night."
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