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1. Add MS 88918/1-6

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Title:
Drafts of poetry, prose, plays, radio scripts and non-fiction
Scope & Content:
Drafts, working notes and correspondence connected with Hughes's literary work.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1954]-1 Dec 2000
Extent:
118 folders, packages and volumes

2. Add MS 88918/4/1-23

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Title:
Plays
Scope & Content:
Drafts, notes, correspondence and proofs relating to Hughes's work as a playwright.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1968-1999
Extent:
23 folders

3. Add Ms 88918/3/1-11

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Title:
Prose
Scope & Content:
Drafts, notes, publisher's proofs and correspondence relating to Hughes's prose work.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1956]-1997
Extent:
11 folders and envelopes

4. Add MS 88918/6/1-12

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Title:
Non-fiction
Scope & Content:
Notes, drafts and correspondence relating to Hughes's non-fiction work, which included articles, introductions, reviews, forewords and speeches. Work relating to Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being, his work of literary criticism is also included.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1962-1 Dec 2000
Extent:
12 folders and packages

5. Add MS 88918/1/1-63

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Title:
Collected Poetry
Scope & Content:
Partly typewritten, autograph and printed poetry drafts, prose, notes and correspondence connected with Hughes's collected poetry.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1954]-20 Jul 1998
Extent:
63 folders, packages and volumes

6. Add MS 88918/5/1

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Title:
Radio Scripts
Scope & Content:
Partly typewritten and partly autograph. Contains copy of script for 'The Worst Journey in the World' written and recorded by Hughes with Fraser Kerr and Norman Claridge for the BBC (recorded 13th March and transmitted on 10th April 1964) with accompanying letter; script for 'The Novel Today: "Vo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Dec 1961-31 Mar 1964
Extent:
1 folder

7. Add MS 88918/2/1-8

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Title:
Uncollected Poems
Scope & Content:
Some of these poems were included in anthologies or published in pamphlet form. The majority were posthumously published with Hughes' poetry collections in Ted Hughes Collected Poems in 2003.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1957-1998]
Extent:
8 folders

8. Add MS 88918/6/6

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Title:
Grimersta
Scope & Content:
Partly typewritten, partly autograph material about Grimersta, a fishery in the Outer Hebrides where Hughes had fished many times, mostly relating to a book being written about the fishery by Michael Wigan. Before his death Hughes agreed to write a foreword to the book, but he died before he was ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Aug 1996-1 Dec 2000
Extent:
1 folder

9. Add MS 88918/4/1-3

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Title:
Alcestis
Scope & Content:
Partly printed, partly autograph drafts of Hughes's version of Euripides' play with autograph annotations, one of which is written in a Challenge notebook. Includes proofs from Farrar, Straus and Giroux dated 1999, which suggests that it was proof read and annotated following Hughes's death. Mate...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1998]-17 Aug 1999
Extent:
3 folders

10. Add MS 88918/4/12-18

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Title:
Phèdre
Scope & Content:
Drafts, correspondence, two published volumes and publishers' proofs relating to Hughes's version of Phèdre by Racine.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1996-3 Dec 1998
Extent:
7 folders