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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88918/145
Title:: Sketches and artwork
Scope & Content:: Sketches, the majority of which are of people and animals drawn by Hughes on loose sheets of paper and in sketchbooks. These include a sheet of what appear to be aztec symbols and numerous sketches of a bull, which appear to be versions of the sketch included on the front cover of 'Moortown Diary...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1950s-1990s]
Extent:: 1 folder

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88918/146
Title:: Published volumes
Scope & Content:: Two printed volumes The Translations of EZRA POUND (Faber and Faber, London, 1970) and a copy of the journal, Shenandoah (vol. XIII, no.2, winter 1962) entitled 'A Symposium on Robert Graves'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1962-1970
Extent:: 1 folder

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88918/147
Title:: Miscellaneous items
Scope & Content:: Partly typewritten, partly autograph material, which consists of the following - two poems written for Hughes by Assia Wevill and one poem written by Leonard Baskin; a letter 'from Bill [William] Merwin to Dido' dated 15th October 1970; a letter to Nicholas Hughes from Aurelia Plath dated 25th Au...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 19 Dec 1890-15 Oct 1970
Extent:: 1 folder

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88918/148
Title:: Poet Laureate's sherry box
Scope & Content:: Side of a cardboard box marked 'Laureate's Choice Oloroso Seco Sherry Williams and Humbert'. This box was one of those in which Hughes's Poet Laureate sherry was sent to him. The motif of the bird within the laurel wreath was designed and drawn by Hughes himself (sketches of the motif can be foun...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1984-1990s]
Extent:: 1 item

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