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41. Add MS 88918/4/12-13

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Title:
Phèdre
Scope & Content:
Partly autograph, partly typewritten and printed. Contains undated drafts of the play with annotations and corrections on loose papers and in two notebooks. A page taken from the New York Review (dated 5th October 1997), which was inserted into one of the notebooks together with a few pages of a ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Aug 1997-24 Aug [1998]
Extent:
2 folders

42. Add MS 88918/4/15-17

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Title:
Phèdre
Scope & Content:
Partly typewritten and printed, partly autograph material, mostly annotated drafts and proofs of Phèdre. Pages of corrections faxed to Jonathan Kent, a copy of Racine's Phaedra by Derek Mahon (The Gallery Press, 1996) and an annotated copy of Hughes's version of the play are also included. This m...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1996-31 Aug 1998
Extent:
3 folders

43. Add MS 88918/3/1-4

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Title:
Difficulties of a Bridegroom
Scope & Content:
Partly typewritten and printed, partly autograph with some autograph annotations and corrections. Drafts of 'O'Kelly's Angel', 'The Deadfall', 'The Head' and the foreword for the short story collection, Difficulties of a Bridegroom are included. In the foreword Hughes writes that 'These nine piec...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1956]-c 1995
Extent:
4 folders and envelopes

44. Add MS 88918/4/20

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Title:
The Story of Vasco
Scope & Content:
Partly typewritten and partly autograph. Contains annotated copies of the script for the libretto, one of which is described as being 'based on an English version, by Ted Hughes, of the play "L'Histoire De Vasco" by Georges Schehade'. Letters from Gordon Crosse, who wrote the musical score for th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Sep 1969-12 Mar 1974
Extent:
1 folder

45. Add MS 88918/4/7-8

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Title:
The Oresteia
Scope & Content:
Printed with autograph annotations and corrections. Contains versions of The Oresteia, one of which is marked ‘Ted’s copy revised’ and ‘Final Corrected Revision’. Includes information about a collection of the working papers of Robert Lowell who produced a translation of Eumenides, part of The Or...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 May 1998
Extent:
2 folders

46. Add MS 88918/1/49

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Title:
Primer of the Birds
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[before 1981]
Extent:
1 folder

47. Add MS 88918/1/50

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Title:
Rain-Charm For The Duchy
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[before 1992]
Extent:
1 folder

48. Add MS 88918/1/58

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Title:
Under the North Star
Scope & Content:
Partly typewritten, partly autograph poetry drafts for the poems 'Musk Ox', 'Arctic Fox' and 'Mooses'. Part of a contents list for the collection is also included.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1979
Extent:
1 folder

49. Add MS 88918/4/14

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Title:
Phèdre
Scope & Content:
Two printed publisher's proofs with autograph annotations and corrections, with some slight variation between the two copies.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1996-1998]
Extent:
1 folder

50. Add MS 88918/4/18

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Title:
Phèdre
Scope & Content:
Printed with autograph annotations. A proof of the play sent with an accompanying letter from Faber and Faber and an annotated proof of the American publication of the play by Farrar, Straus and Giroux are included.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 May 1998-03 Dec 1998
Extent:
1 folder