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1. Add MS 88918/1/2-16

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Title:
Birthday Letters
Scope & Content:
Poetry drafts, notes, personal reflections and correspondence relating to the creation, development and publication of Birthday Letters.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[before Feb 1998] - 26 Feb 1998
Extent:
15 folders and volumes

2. Add MS 88918/1/17-18

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Title:
Capriccio
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1967-8 Nov 1993
Extent:
2 folders

3. Add MS 88918/1/21-22

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Title:
Collected Animal Poems
Scope & Content:
Printed publishers' proofs of Collected Animal Poems volumes 1-4 with some annotations including a bound uncorrected proof.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1995
Extent:
2 folders

4. Add MS 88918/1/23-34

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Title:
The Life and Songs of the Crow
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1960s-1990s]
Extent:
12 folders

5. Add MS 88918/1/39-40

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Title:
Howls and Whispers
Scope & Content:
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 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Feb 1998
Extent:
2 folders

6. Add MS 88918/1/52-53

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Title:
Remains of Elmet
Scope & Content:
Printed, typewritten and autograph published and unpublished poetry drafts and notes relating to the Remains of Elmet poetry collection.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1978-c 1994
Extent:
2 folders

7. Add MS 88918/1/56-57

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Title:
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Scope & Content:
Partly printed and partly autograph material originally in box marked 'Gawain'. Comprises five volumes, four of which are different printed editions of the text, as follows - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight edited by J.R.R. Tolkien and E.V. Gordon, 2nd edn. Norman Davis (Oxford University Press, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1974-1995
Extent:
2 folders

8. Add MS 88918/1/59-61

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Title:
What is the Truth? A Farmyard Fable for the Young
Scope & Content:
Partly printed, partly typewritten and autograph. What is the Truth? consists of a series of untitled poems connected by a narrative. Material includes three printed proofs with autograph annotations and revisions of the content and layout of the poetry and prose. The proofs are dated 12th July 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Jul 1983-21 Mar 1984
Extent:
3 folders and packages

9. Add MS 88918/3/1-4

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Title:
Difficulties of a Bridegroom
Scope & Content:
Partly typewritten and printed, partly autograph with some autograph annotations and corrections. Drafts of 'O'Kelly's Angel', 'The Deadfall', 'The Head' and the foreword for the short story collection, Difficulties of a Bridegroom are included. In the foreword Hughes writes that 'These nine piec...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1956]-c 1995
Extent:
4 folders and envelopes

10. Add MS 88918/4/1-3

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Title:
Alcestis
Scope & Content:
Partly printed, partly autograph drafts of Hughes's version of Euripides' play with autograph annotations, one of which is written in a Challenge notebook. Includes proofs from Farrar, Straus and Giroux dated 1999, which suggests that it was proof read and annotated following Hughes's death. Mate...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1998]-17 Aug 1999
Extent:
3 folders