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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88918/1/56-57
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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88918/1/59-61
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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88918/3/1-4
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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88918/4/1-3
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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88918/4/4-5
Title:: Blood Wedding
Scope & Content:: Partly autograph and partly printed. Includes a notebook with an autograph draft of the script, a published copy of the original Spanish version of the play (published in 1994) and a photocopy of music entitled 'Canciones de "Bodas de sangre" y "Mariana Pindea" De "Bodas de Sangre"’. Also include...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1994-1996
Extent:: 2 folders

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88918/4/7-11
Title:: The Oresteia
Scope & Content:: Drafts, publishers' proofs and correspondence relating to the new version of The Oresteia of Aeschylus by Hughes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 25 May 1998-26 Apr 1999
Extent:: 5 folders

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88918/4/12-18
Title:: Phèdre
Scope & Content:: Drafts, correspondence, two published volumes and publishers' proofs relating to Hughes's version of Phèdre by Racine.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1996-3 Dec 1998
Extent:: 7 folders

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88918/4/21-23
Title:: Tales from Ovid
Scope & Content:: Notes, drafts, publisher's proofs and correspondence relating to Tales from Ovid.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 28 May 1997-1999
Extent:: 3 folders

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88918/6/7-10
Title:: Literary Criticism: Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being
Scope & Content:: Printed with some autograph annotations and corrections, and typewritten. Contains two loose leaf publishers’ proofs of Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being with annotations and corrections and some variation between the two copies (Add MS 88918/6/9 and Add MS 88918/6/10). Folders, Ad...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 15 May 1992-24 Jan 1993
Extent:: 4 folders and packages

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88918/7/1-3
Title:: Autobiographical notes and commentaries on literary works
Scope & Content:: Partly typewritten and printed, partly autograph material all of which contains autobiographical information about Hughes and / or insight into his literary work. These folders include undated material. Add MS 88918/7/1: This folder includes - a document entitled ‘Comments About Books at Sothe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 7 Jun 1985-6 Dec 1997
Extent:: 3 folders

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