Contains autograph and typewritten poetry drafts in loose leaf and notebook forms, some of which are not included in the published collection and a list of contents of Birthday Letters. Annotations, pasting over and editing of the text show the working nature of the material. Diary entry dated Ja...
Contains undated mainly typewritten poetry drafts though some autograph on loose leaf paper, many of which have been adapted by taping new lines of poetry over or underneath old ones or have autograph annotations. Some of the poems have different working titles to those found in the published col...
Contains fifteen notebooks with annotated autograph notes, eleven of which are school exercise books, many with the names of their former owners written on them. Notebooks contain poetry drafts, with annotations and corrections. Includes untitled poems, some of which were not included in the pub...
Contains undated photocopies of typewritten copies of Birthday Letters, one copy includes a contents page, whilst many of pages have autograph annotations on them. Two printed publisher's proofs with different autograph corrections and annotations are also included.
Contains mainly typewritten and autograph poetry drafts with autograph annotations and corrections. Some of the poems can be found in other collections including Howls and Whispers and Capriccio, whilst others are unpublished. Also includes correspondence with Faber and Faber publishers relating ...
Contains undated loose leaf autograph poetry and prose drafts, and prose notes relating to Crow and the Fool. Many of the papers were recycled by Hughes who wrote on the back of entries sent in to a children's writing competition. This folder contains undated material.
Contains typewritten and autograph poetry drafts with annotations, lists of Crow poems to be sold 'in England' and 'in [the] States' and a diary entry (?) marked 'April 20th Easter Friday'. Prose notes, some in exercise books and others on loose sheets of paper, some of which are organised under ...