Undated printed copies of poems ('The Wild Duck', 'The Swift comes the swift' and 'And the Phoenix has come') from poetry collection with a copy of the content page.
Partly typewritten and partly autograph. Includes a notebook of heavily annotated autograph drafts, in which some poems have different working titles and others were not included in the published collection. An exercise book with prose notes relating to Capriccio, Assia Wevill and a book by de Bo...
Undated typewritten poetry with autograph annotations consisting of drafts of the poems, 'Bride and Groom Lie Hidden for Three Days' and 'His Legs Ran About' which differ from the published versions. Notes on the poems in the collection are also included.
Prose and poetry drafts and notes relating to Hughes's continuing work on the Crow project. The original titles written on the folders have been retained for this material. Notes that appear to form an introduction to a poetry reading by Hughes that starts 'The poems I'm going to read belong to t...
Typewritten and printed poetry from the collection with autograph annotations and one autograph poem. Some of the drafts differ from the published versions and one does not appear to have been published in that form at all. One page includes one poem from Earth-numb and another from Moortown Diar...
Incomplete set of typescript copies of poems from the collection. The order of the poems, which have been arranged on numbered pages varies in places from the order of the published collection.
Partly typewritten and partly autograph. Contains poetry drafts, some of which are not included in the published collection including a number about daffodils, 'The Tacax', 'The Begonia for her pot', 'Balsam', 'Snowdrops', 'Wild Garlic', 'Harvest', 'Violet and Apple Blossom', 'The Flea', 'A Viole...