Partly typewritten, partly autograph consisting of autograph copies of 'Shrike' and 'Pheasant'. The copies of 'Pheasant' differ from the published version. A typewritten page of introduction to the collection is also included.
Typewritten poetry drafts with autograph annotations for the collection of poetry written by Hughes in his capacity as Poet Laureate. Contains drafts of 'The Honey Bee and the Thistle' (written for the wedding of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson), 'A Masque for Three Voices' and 'The Zodiac in th...
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...
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 ...
Partly typewritten and printed, partly autograph drafts of poems from the River collection and some notes. Some poems differ significantly from the published collection whilst others appear to be unpublished. Two sketches of fish heads and commentary notes about the poems for a poetry reading are...
Partly typewritten and partly autograph. Contains exercise books of poetry drafts, notes and diary entries. The exercise book that previously belonged to ‘M.I. Cunningham’ contains drafts of a speech that Hughes gave on farming and the environment. Further notes about the poetry, unpublished poe...
Partly printed and partly autograph material originally in box marked 'Gawain'. Comprises five volumes, four of which are different printed editions of the text, as follows - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight edited by J.R.R. Tolkien and E.V. Gordon, 2nd edn. Norman Davis (Oxford University Press, ...