Autograph notebooks containing poetry drafts, notes on events and places in Hughes's life including Moortown farm. Diary entries, names and addresses, financial information, research notes, notes on literary projects and drawings possibly by Hughes's older brother, Gerald are also included. A let...
Autograph notebooks containing notes on different subjects including environmental issues relating to fishing and rivers and poetry drafts including versions of poems from Cave Birds, which differ from the final published poems. Names, addresses and telephone numbers, notes about contemporary eve...
Autograph notebooks containing notes on different subjects including historical figures; list of some of Hughes's poems, notes relating to The Iron Woman, What is the Truth? A Farmyard Fable for the Young, Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being and poems from Raincharm for the Duchy, names...
Autograph notebooks containing names and contact details, diary entries including an account of a fishing trip to Grimersta (9th-16th July 1998) and feelings about publication of Birthday Letters, notes on poets and their poetry, lists of poems in Birthday Letters and notes about memorising poems...
Large autograph notebook containing poetry drafts some of which were published in Ted Hughes Collected Poems under 'Uncollected Poems 1992-1997'. Other poems are unpublished whilst 'Karlsbad Caverns', which is included was published in Birthday Letters (1998). Mind maps relating to Prometheus are...
Autograph address book with contact details of friends and family (although undated the book contains addresses written by Sylvia Plath, so at least part of the book must date from before 1963).
Autograph notebooks containing notes on historical figures and philosophy, untitled poetry drafts, lists and accounts of dreams. The material in this folder is undated and the date range given is an approximation.
Autograph notebooks containing notes including some on Shakespeare's plays, prose and poetry drafts including a passage relating to 'D of B', which presumably stands for Difficulties of a Bridegroom. The material in this folder is undated and the date range given is an approximation.
Autograph notebooks containing names and contact details, notes on different subjects, finances and expenses; poetry drafts and notes that appear to relate to Hughes's work on 'Crow'. The material in this folder is undated and the date range given is an approximation.