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.
Autograph diary entries have been written in loose papers or pages, which appear to have been removed from notebooks and then held together with paperclips. The entries date from different periods of Hughes's life and are not in any way a complete set. They provide accounts of his family life and...
These notebooks and loose papers contain a wide range of autograph material with records of household expenditure and finances; diary entries (including some relating to fishing trips); poetry and prose drafts (often of untitled material) and notes on literary projects; astrological charts and no...
Autograph notebooks containing notes on different subjects; names and addresses; astrological charts; notes of finances and drafts of poetry and prose.
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 Other poems are unpublished whilst 'Karlsbad Caverns', which is included was published in Birthday Letters (1998).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 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.