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21. Add MS 88918/1/23-34

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Title:
The Life and Songs of the Crow
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1960s-1990s]
Extent:
12 folders

22. Add MS 88918/1/24

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Title:
C[row] Prose
Scope & Content:
Photocopies of printed poems from The Life and Songs of the Crow (1970) including the front cover.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1970s-1990s]
Extent:
1 folder

23. Add MS 88918/1/25-26

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Title:
Valleys (old)
Scope & Content:
Contains undated loose leaf autograph poetry and prose drafts, and prose notes relating to Crow and the Fool. Many of the papers were recycled by Hughes who wrote on the back of entries sent in to a children's writing competition. This folder contains undated material.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1960s-1990s]
Extent:
2 folders

24. Add MS 88918/1/27-28

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Title:
Cro[w] misc.
Scope & Content:
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 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Sep 1973
Extent:
2 folders

25. Add MS 88918/1/29-30

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Title:
C[row] notes
Scope & Content:
Mainly autograph papers with some typewritten, which were previously arranged into folders (this arrangement has been retained and front covers have been kept). Includes papers with headings written on them that were originally in a folder marked 'Early days' and prose drafts about God, Crow and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1960s-1990s]
Extent:
2 folders

26. Add MS 88918/1/31-32

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Title:
Birth
Scope & Content:
Partly typewritten, partly autograph. Contains poetry drafts and prose notes on loose papers and in two exercise books. Some of the poetry drafts relate to poems published in Earth-Numb as well as The Life and Songs of Crow. Also includes a transmission script for a reading of 'Crow From the Life...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jul 1970
Extent:
2 folders

27. Add MS 88918/1/33

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Title:
Heaven
Scope & Content:
Undated autograph prose notes and poetry drafts, some of which appear to relate to scenes in a play and a diagram entitled 'God in Heaven', which is accompanied by a list of animals. A typewritten copy of a poem entitled 'Three Songs', 'Watersong' taken from a publication (name unknown), which wa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1960s-1990s]
Extent:
1 folder

28. Add MS 88918/1/34

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Title:
Crow notebook and poetry
Scope & Content:
Partly typewritten, partly autograph material comprising an autograph commentary on prose and poetry about Crow written in a spiral notebook and drafts of poems with some autograph annotations. The poems included were published in different collections relating to Crow as follows - 'Carnival' ('A...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1960s-1990s]
Extent:
1 folder

29. Add MS 88918/1/35

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Title:
Earth-numb
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[before 1979]
Extent:
1 folder

30. Add MS 88918/1/36

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Title:
The Earth-Owl and Other Moon-People
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[before 1963]
Extent:
1 folder