Printed publisher's proof of The Oresteia with autograph annotations and corrections, and an accompanying letter from English publisher, Faber and Faber to Carol Hughes.
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.
Typewritten drafts of stories from the collection - 'The Screw' (with slight variation from published version); an annotated draft of 'Camel' and a photocopy of a printed version of 'How God Got His Golden Head'.
Two printed loose leaf copies of Tales of the Early World, with slight variation in the layout of the text at the beginning of the volume. Pages from a draft of the story 'The Guardian' are also included.
Partly typewritten and printed, partly autograph. Contains drafts of an essay 'The Poetry of Keith Douglas' published in Critical Quarterly 5 (1963) and as 'Introduction to the Selected Poems of Keith Douglas (Faber and Faber, 1964), together with proof corrections for the volume; and drafts and ...
Printed with autograph annotations. This is a photocopy of the publisher's proof of 'Ted Hughes' Tales from Ovid adapted by Tim Supple and Simon Reade'.
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...
Undated autograph prose notes and poetry drafts, some of which appear to relate to scenes in a play and a diagram entitled 'God in Heaven', which is accompanied by a list of animals. A typewritten copy of a poem entitled 'Three Songs', 'Watersong' taken from a publication (name unknown), which wa...
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 ...