Papers on the Jameson Raid. Includes copies of Lansdowne’s letters to the Queen; correspondence with Sir Arthur Bigge (later Baron Stamfordham), private secretary to the Queen, reporting the Queen’s opinion; and correspondence with Lord Salisbury, Arthur Haliburton, Sir Redvers Buller, and others.
Proceedings of Commander-in-Chief’s Committee to consider Questions relating to Operations in South Africa; 1899-1902. Printed, with a sheet of manuscript notes pinned at the beginning of vol. 1.
Papers on Ordnance Factories, arising from the appointment of Sir Henry Brackenbury as Director-General of Ordnance. Mostly printed and typewritten, including Cabinet memoranda. With a list of contents at the beginning of vol. 1.
Partly typewritten and partly autograph. Includes a notebook of heavily annotated autograph drafts, in which some poems have different working titles and others were not included in the published collection. An exercise book with prose notes relating to Capriccio, Assia Wevill and a book by de Bo...
Prose and poetry drafts and notes relating to Hughes's continuing work on the Crow project. The original titles written on the folders have been retained for this material. Notes that appear to form an introduction to a poetry reading by Hughes that starts 'The poems I'm going to read belong to t...
Partly printed and typewritten, partly autograph material the greater part of which consists of annotated poetry drafts with corrections by Hughes. A set of galley proofs for the volume (which was at that time entitled 'An Addendum of letters' with original illustrations by Leonard Baskin and an ...