One typewritten page of draft of Nessie the Mannerless Monster, the content of which differs from the published version. This draft is closer to draft pages of Nessie the Mannerless Monster in Add MS 53784.
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, ...
Undated printed copies of poems ('The Wild Duck', 'The Swift comes the swift' and 'And the Phoenix has come') from poetry collection with a copy of the content page.
Printed published volume of poetry and part of the poem 'The Martyrdom of Bishop Farrar' taken from 'The Pocket Book of Modern Verse'. An edition of English Poetry Now Critical Quarterly Poetry Supplement number 3, which contains two Hughes poems 'The Road to Easington' and 'Six Young Men'; and a...
Partly typewritten and partly autograph. Contains poetry drafts, some of which are not included in the published collection including a number about daffodils, 'The Tacax', 'The Begonia for her pot', 'Balsam', 'Snowdrops', 'Wild Garlic', 'Harvest', 'Violet and Apple Blossom', 'The Flea', 'A Viole...
Partly printed and typewritten, partly autograph material the greater part of which consists of annotated poetry drafts with corrections by Hughes. A set of galley proofs for the volume (which was at that time entitled 'An Addendum of letters' with original illustrations by Leonard Baskin and an ...
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.
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...