Partly typewritten and partly autograph. Consists of five school exercise books and loose papers containing notes and poetry much of which is connected with the Hughes family, particularly Hughes’s parents. A red exercise book contains notes about Hughes’s father and a passage written after some...
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Partly typewritten and printed, partly autograph. Contains partial drafts of 'The Interpretation of Parables' (1992), three drafts of 'Subsidy for Poetry' (1984), four drafts of 'Baboons and Neanderthals: A Re-Reading of The Inheritors' (written for William Golding: A Man and His Books (1986)). A...
Typewritten and autograph, a photocopy of autograph draft of eulogy given by Hughes at the funeral of his former teacher and friend, John Fisher, drafts of a piece written about Stephen Spender, a draft of 'Memorial Reading for William Golding, Salisbury Cathedral, November 20th [19]93' and two d...
Printed and typewritten with some autograph annotations. Includes an annotated copy of the published volume and drafts of the poetry, some of which vary from the final published versions. In the annotated volume, which is a copy of the 1979 edition of the poetry collection Hughes has noted which ...