Partly autograph and partly printed. Contains two uncorrected proofs and one published volume of Tales from Ovid with autograph annotations and corrections; correspondence with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Hughes's American publishers; a publishers' proof with some annotations and a copy of a dustc...
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...
Articles, Contributions to Publications and Reviews
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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...
Contains autograph and typewritten poetry drafts in loose leaf and notebook forms, some of which are not included in the published collection and a list of contents of Birthday Letters. Annotations, pasting over and editing of the text show the working nature of the material. Diary entry dated Ja...
Contains typewritten and autograph poetry drafts with annotations, lists of Crow poems to be sold 'in England' and 'in [the] States' and a diary entry (?) marked 'April 20th Easter Friday'. Prose notes, some in exercise books and others on loose sheets of paper, some of which are organised under ...
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 ...
Contains fifteen notebooks with annotated autograph notes, eleven of which are school exercise books, many with the names of their former owners written on them. Notebooks contain poetry drafts, with annotations and corrections. Includes untitled poems, some of which were not included in the pub...