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1. Add MS 88918/17-26

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Title:
Translation
Scope & Content:
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
Date Range:
7 Jul 1956-[1990s]
Extent:
17 folders

2. Add MS 88918/26

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Title:
Translation papers
Scope & Content:
Partly typewritten and printed, partly autograph material relating to translation of foreign poetry into English. Includes copies of poetry and prose, some of which are taken from The New Hungarian Quarterly. Notes about poets, what appear to be drafts of Hughes's translations from quite early in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jul 1978-Aug 1978
Extent:
1 folder

3. Add MS 88918/19

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Title:
Bosnian poetry anthology
Scope & Content:
Partly typewritten and printed, partly autograph correspondence and poetry exchanged between Hughes, the Serbian publisher, Књижевне новине, Chris Agee (about Scar on the Stone: Contemporary Poetry from Bosnia) and Bloodaxe Books. Literal translations, copies of original poetry in Bosnian, transl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Bosnian and English
Date Range:
10 Nov 1994-31 May 1998
Extent:
1 folder

4. Add MS 88918/20

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Title:
Attila Jozsef
Scope & Content:
Mainly typewritten with some autograph material. Contents relate to the publication of Selected Poems of Attila Jozsef in English by Lucas Myers and Agnes Vadas Myers for which Hughes wrote a foreword. Includes a letter from The Hungarian Quarterly, drafts of Hughes's foreword and a copy of poetr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Apr 1994-22 Nov 1995
Extent:
1 folder

5. Add MS 88918/23

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Title:
Daniel Weissbort
Scope & Content:
Partly typewritten, partly autograph correspondence between Hughes and Weissbort, mostly letters (with some enclosures) sent by Weissbort. The letters relate to translation work and collaborative projects but also refer to friends and other personal matters.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Aug 1991-24 Jun 1998
Extent:
1 folder

6. Add MS 88918/24

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Title:
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Scope & Content:
Typewritten text with autograph annotations and corrections. Text entitled 'My Russia' has been heavily annotated and the final page is signed by the Russian writer and dramatist. Hughes appears to have started to write a new version of the text using the literal translation provided. This materi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1960s-1990s]
Extent:
1 folder

7. Add MS 88918/18/1-6

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Title:
Yehuda Amichai
Scope & Content:
Notes, poetry, letters and articles relating to the Israeli poet, Yehuda Amichai, whom Hughes first met in the 1960s.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, German, and Hebrew
Date Range:
1968-26 Jul 1998
Extent:
6 folders

8. Add MS 88918/22

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Title:
Veno Taufer
Scope & Content:
Mainly typewritten with some autograph material. Includes letters to Hughes from Taufer and a French publisher about Taufer’s poetry. Notes about the poet, drafts of Hughes’s translations of his work from literal English translations, and copies of Taufer’s poetry in French and English (includes ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Slovenian
Date Range:
15 Apr 1994-24 Jan 1997
Extent:
1 folder

9. Add MS 88918/21

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Title:
Janos Pilinszky
Scope & Content:
Partly typewritten, partly autograph material relating to the publication of Janos Pilinszky's poetry in English. Most of the material consists of letters (with some poetry enclosures) sent to Hughes by Michael Schmidt of Carcanet Press, which published Pilinszky's poetry in English, Peter Jay of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Mar 1972-9 Dec 1988
Extent:
1 folder

10. Add MS 88918/25

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Title:
Nickolay Zabolotsky
Scope & Content:
Typewritten loose leaf copy of 'Selected Poems of Nikolay Zabolotsky' edited by Daniel Weissbort with some autograph annotations. This material is undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1970s-1990s]
Extent:
1 folder