Correspondence, notes and photocopies of poetry relating to the compilation of The School Bag poetry anthology, edited by Hughes and Seamus Heaney. Drafts of an afterword by Hughes are also included.
Partly typewritten and printed, partly autograph. Contains correspondence between Hughes, Seamus Heaney and staff at Faber and Faber relating to the anthology, including selection of poetry, order of the poetry in the anthology and publicity around its publication. Notes on poems to be included, ...
Mainly typewritten and printed, with some autograph material. The majority of the folders (Add MS 88918/16/5-9) contain photocopies of poems, some of which are arranged in paper enclosures. Add MS 88918/16/7 also contains sections of Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf. The poems were presuma...