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 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 ...
Printed publishers' proofs for the American edition of The Oresteia published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, with autograph annotations and corrections. Two pages (pp. 21 and 40) are missing from the proof, which has Paul Elie's business card attached to it.
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...
Letters from children, schools and colleges, G-Lanesborough
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Partly typewritten, partly autograph letters from children and teachers, some sent by schoolchildren with questions about Hughes's work and drawings, many relating to The Iron Man. Includes letters requesting support for fundraising by schools and colleges, and some examples of children's creativ...
Partly typewritten and printed, partly autograph poetry drafts with some autograph annotation. The following poems are included - 'Glimpse' (the poem 'Unless I was his secret', which is unpublished is included as it has been typed on the same paper), 'A Full House', 'Kore', 'If', 'Mayday', 'First...
HRH The Duke of Edinburgh Proposals for International Competition
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Mainly typewritten and printed with autograph annotations and signatures. Includes correspondence, journals and enclosures relating to Hughes's wish to establish an international competition for which entrants would write plays that could be performed by children on environmental themes. Enclosur...
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, ...
Partly autograph and partly typewritten. Drafts and notes made by Hughes in the course of writing the article, looking at the effect of hunting on the numbers of deer and foxes in the West Country and how such numbers might be affected if a ban was introduced. Including quotations from other sour...