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21. Add MS 88918/9/1

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Title:
Bardo Thodol
Scope & Content:
Autograph drafts of poetry, prose and notes relating to Hughes's work on Bardo Thodol. Hughes was asked to write a libretto for an opera based on Bardo Thodol, The Tibetan Book of the Dead by the Chinese American composer, Chou Wen-chung, when the two met at the Yaddo artist colony in 1959. Hughe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[After 1959]-1989
Extent:
1 folder

22. Add MS 88918/12/10

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Title:
Shakespeare miniatures
Scope & Content:
39 miniature volumes published by Allied Newspapers Ltd. A note at the front of each volume explains that the plays have been 'carefully edited and compared with the best texts'. Includes printed copies of all Shakespeare's plays with the exception of King Lear. Also includes a volume containing...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1930s]
Extent:
1 box

23. Add MS 88918/9/2

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Title:
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Scope & Content:
Partly printed and typewritten, partly autograph consisting of a published copy of The Epic of Gilgamesh, (English version) by N.K. Sanders (Penguin, 1960), notes about the poem and correspondence between Hughes and Tim Supple about the possibility of writing a new version of Gilgamesh. This mate...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1960-8 Jun 1998
Extent:
1 folder

24. Add MS 88918/11/5

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Title:
Research notes and drafts
Scope & Content:
Partly typewritten, partly autograph drafts and research notes on the following subjects - fishing, Ovid, and Reg Lloyd; list of words; notes about copies of his work; a draft of a letter apologising for not being able to attend a meeting of Index; notes on 'The Case Againist the Global Economy; ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1980s-1990s]
Extent:
1 folder

25. Add MS 88918/8/2-4

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Title:
Unpublished Creation Tales material
Scope & Content:
Partly typewritten and partly autograph. Most of the material consists of twenty-four exercise books of autograph notes, mindmaps and drafts of children's stories. The exercise books are entitled as follows - 'Final mouse', 'Monkey', 'The Missing One A', 'The Missing One B', 'Cockroach', 'Garden ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1980s-1990s]
Extent:
3 folders

26. Add MS 88918/9/11

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Title:
Unpublished prose and scripts
Scope & Content:
Autograph prose drafts written by Hughes the earliest of which may date from his time during National Service (1949-1951). Exercise book contains mainly untitled stories, whilst drafts written on loose papers are entitled 'The Son of the Mantis, the Baboons and the Mantis' and 'Jataka I'. A scrip...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1949-c 1951]
Extent:
1 folder

27. Add MS 88918/11/6

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Title:
Poetry Anthology index cards
Scope & Content:
Undated autograph notes about poets and their poetry made on index cards, apparently for an anthology.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1980s-1990s]
Extent:
1 folder

28. Add MS 88918/8/5

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Title:
Children's literature drafts
Scope & Content:
Partly typewritten and partly autograph drafts and notes about children's literature the majority of which are prose. Consists of titled and untitled material, titles include 'The Tigerboy', 'Ffangs II', 'The Roar', 'Book II', 'The Angel', 'The House of Karma', 'Milwepa Boy', 'My brother Mo' and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Jun 1979
Extent:
1 folder

29. Add MS 88918/10/10

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Title:
Memory book vol. 2
Scope & Content:
Autograph notes written in a notebook and on eight loose pages. The notebook contains notes about memorising poetry including techniques to use; notes about Hughes's work with Seneca's Oedipus and Iron Man (these bear some similarities to notes about the literary works found in a draft of a docum...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1980s-1990s]
Extent:
1 folder

30. Add MS 88918/10/12

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Title:
Poetry and prose D of B
Scope & Content:
Mainly autograph with some typewritten material. Includes drafts of poetry and prose, which appear to be unpublished; three are entitled 'Godan sleepless', 'God's Dream' and 'Under the Gatepost of Heaven'. Also includes some material relating to Crow entitled 'Crow's first dreams' and 'Crow's les...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1960s-1990s]
Extent:
1 folder