Working notes on multiple subjects including unpublished work
Scope & Content:
Poetry and prose drafts relating to published and unpublished material. Notes, correspondence, diagrams, sketches, personal reflections, diary entries, autobiographical writings and research material on a wide variety of subjects written and compiled by Hughes are also included. Some papers relat...
Notes, drafts, correspondence and publishers' proofs connected with Hughes's work as editor of three anthologies, The Rattle Bag, The School Bag and By Heart: 101 Poems to Remember, two of which he edited with Seamus Heaney.
Material relating to Hughes's work with foreign poets and writers and his involvement with projects to publish their work in English, both in individual volumes and in the journal, Modern Poetry in Translation.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Bosnian, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Icelandic, and Slovenian
Correspondence and enclosures relating to Hughes's professional writing, much of which consists of letters from publishers. Requests to include Hughes's work in other publications and invitations for him to participate in events, television and radio programmes are also included.
Correspondence, mostly sent to Hughes,with some printed enclosures. Includes letters sent by friends and literary figures, acquaintances and members of the public (including children) as well as copy letters sent out by Hughes and letters sent to his wife, Carol Hughes after his death.
Contains material sent to Hughes by friends, acquaintances and strangers, much of which consists of original writing and poetry, some with accompanying letters. Many of the enclosures appear to have been sent by the author. However in some cases the identity of the sender is unclear, and material...
Autograph diary entries and notebooks containing research notes, personal reflections, accounts of daily life, names and addresses dating throughout Hughes's life from the mid 1950s.
Press cuttings included here were originally stored together and relate to literary works and organisations, and environmental issues. Other press cuttings on single issues found elsewhere in the archive have been retained in their original positions.