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1. Add MS 88918/7-12

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Title:
Working notes on multiple subjects including unpublished work
Scope & Content:
Poetry and prose drafts relating to published and unpublished material. Notes, correspondence, diagrams, sketches, personal reflections, diary entries, autobiographical writings and research material on a wide variety of subjects written and compiled by Hughes are also included. Some papers relat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
[1930s]-1998
Extent:
57 folders, volumes and boxes

2. Add MS 88918/7/1-4

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Title:
Autobiographical and biographical notes
Scope & Content:
Consists of biographical and autobiographical material written by Hughes. Most of the material is autobiographical, or commentaries on Hughes's literary works written in response to enquiries from academics and members of the public.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Oct 1977-6 Dec 1997
Extent:
4 folders

3. Add MS 88918/10/1-18

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Title:
Research files
Scope & Content:
Drafts of poetry, prose, plays and research notes by Hughes relating to different research topics. Some copies of articles and dream diary entries are also included.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
[c 1960]-[1990s]
Extent:
18 folders and volumes

4. Add MS 88918/9/1-14

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Title:
Unpublished prose and poetry
Scope & Content:
Drafts of poetry and prose, notes and correspondence by Hughes in relation to his unpublished work. This includes two projects, which were never completed, the writing of a libretto for an opera based on Bardo Thodol (the Tibetian Book of the Dead) and a version of the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1940s]-8 Jun 1998
Extent:
14 folders

5. Add MS 88918/8/1-5

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Title:
Children's literature
Scope & Content:
Notes, mindmaps and drafts by Hughes, made in connection with his literary work for children. Mostly unpublished.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1960s-1990s]
Extent:
5 folders

6. Add MS 88918/11/1-6

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Title:
Research notes and drafts
Scope & Content:
Research notes and literary drafts on a wide variety of different subjects.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Dec 1956-[1990s]
Extent:
6 folders

7. Add MS 88918/12/1-10

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Title:
Material from Hughes's workroom and workhut
Scope & Content:
Notes, poetic and prose drafts, copies of articles, correspondence and sketches by Hughes that were on the tables in his workroom and workhut at the time of his death. This material was worked on by Hughes in a workroom in his house at North Tawton in Devon and a workhut, which he had in the gard...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1930s]-1998
Extent:
10 folders and boxes

8. Add MS 88918/10/1

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Title:
Agdistis
Scope & Content:
Partly typewritten, partly autograph research notes and poetry drafts relating to Agdistis who was an androgynous deity in Roman, Greek and Anatolian mythology. Material was described by Hughes in a letter to Emory University as being '1 box file of drafts and outlines of pieces based on the myth...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1960s-1990s]
Extent:
1 folder

9. Add MS 88918/10/8

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Title:
Medici
Scope & Content:
Partly typewritten, partly autograph. Draft translations of poems and poetic fragments with autograph annotations; and copies of poems in English and Italian are included. An exercise book with some notes relating to Medici as well as Hughes's opinion on science are also included. Some annotation...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
[1980s-1990s]
Extent:
1 folder

10. Add MS 88918/10/11

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Title:
Playlets
Scope & Content:
Partly printed and typewritten, partly autograph. Copies of 'Komachi At Sekidera (Sekidera Komachi)' and 'Komachi and the Hundred Nights (Kayoi Komachi) from 20 Plays of theNoh theatre (ed. Donald D. Keene, 1970); 'Sotoba-Komachi' from Japanese Noh Drama (Nippon Babaujutsu Shinkokai, 1960) and ar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Sep 1995
Extent:
1 folder