Material relating to Hughes's sale of his archive to Emory University, letters between third parties, poems written for Hughes, artwork and other miscellaneous items in the archive.
Two printed volumes The Translations of EZRA POUND (Faber and Faber, London, 1970) and a copy of the journal, Shenandoah (vol. XIII, no.2, winter 1962) entitled 'A Symposium on Robert Graves'.
Partly typewritten, partly autograph material, which consists of the following - two poems written for Hughes by Assia Wevill and one poem written by Leonard Baskin; a letter 'from Bill [William] Merwin to Dido' dated 15th October 1970; a letter to Nicholas Hughes from Aurelia Plath dated 25th Au...
Side of a cardboard box marked 'Laureate's Choice Oloroso Seco Sherry Williams and Humbert'. This box was one of those in which Hughes's Poet Laureate sherry was sent to him. The motif of the bird within the laurel wreath was designed and drawn by Hughes himself (sketches of the motif can be foun...
Sketches, the majority of which are of people and animals drawn by Hughes on loose sheets of paper and in sketchbooks. These include a sheet of what appear to be aztec symbols and numerous sketches of a bull, which appear to be versions of the sketch included on the front cover of 'Moortown Diary...
Partly typewritten, partly autograph correspondence between Hughes, Ron Schuchard (Professor of English at Emory) and Steve Enniss (then Curator of Literary Collections).
Autograph detailed listing of the material, which Hughes sent to Emory University as part of the institution's purchase of his archive in 1997. Drafts of information about work that Hughes was keeping, its relationship to the material being sent to Emory and his future plans for it are also inclu...