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1. Add MS 88918/6/1-12

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Title:
Non-fiction
Scope & Content:
Notes, drafts and correspondence relating to Hughes's non-fiction work, which included articles, introductions, reviews, forewords and speeches. Work relating to Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being, his work of literary criticism is also included.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1962-1 Dec 2000
Extent:
12 folders and packages

2. Add MS 88918/6/6

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Title:
Grimersta
Scope & Content:
Partly typewritten, partly autograph material about Grimersta, a fishery in the Outer Hebrides where Hughes had fished many times, mostly relating to a book being written about the fishery by Michael Wigan. Before his death Hughes agreed to write a foreword to the book, but he died before he was ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Aug 1996-1 Dec 2000
Extent:
1 folder

3. Add MS 88918/6/3

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Title:
Your World review
Scope & Content:
Printed material with some autograph annotation. Includes a copy of Your World photographic competition publication produced by the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) with Canon Inc in 1992. Also includes a draft and final published copy of the review written by Hughes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1991-1992
Extent:
1 folder

4. Add MS 88918/6/5

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Title:
The Folding Cliffs
Scope & Content:
Partly printed and typewritten, partly autograph material relating to a piece which Hughes wrote for the cover of Merwin's publication. Material consists of drafts of Hughes's piece; correspondence between Hughes, Merwin and Merwin's publishers; and a copy of the publication. The letter from Merw...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Aug 1998-11 Aug 1998
Extent:
1 folder

5. Add MS 88918/6/1

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Title:
Article - The Hunt and the Hunted
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1997]
Extent:
1 folder

6. Add MS 88918/6/4

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Title:
Introductions and Forewords
Scope & Content:
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 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1962-7 Sep 1996
Extent:
1 folder

7. Add MS 88918/6/7-10

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Title:
Literary Criticism: Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being
Scope & Content:
Printed with some autograph annotations and corrections, and typewritten. Contains two loose leaf publishers’ proofs of Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being with annotations and corrections and some variation between the two copies (Add MS 88918/6/9 and Add MS 88918/6/10). Folders, Ad...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 May 1992-24 Jan 1993
Extent:
4 folders and packages

8. Add MS 88918/6/12

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Title:
Non-fiction drafts
Scope & Content:
Partly typewritten, partly autograph material consisting of complete and partial drafts in varying states of completion. The drafts include the 'First paragraphs for defining 'The Two Planes''; an article for Country Life entitled 'Arts for Nature' with drafts about Prince Philip and his environm...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Feb 1993
Extent:
1 folder

9. Add MS 88918/6/2

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Title:
Articles, Contributions to Publications and Reviews
Scope & Content:
Partly typewritten and printed, partly autograph. Contains partial drafts of 'The Interpretation of Parables' (1992), three drafts of 'Subsidy for Poetry' (1984), four drafts of 'Baboons and Neanderthals: A Re-Reading of The Inheritors' (written for William Golding: A Man and His Books (1986)). A...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1962-c 1992
Extent:
1 folder

10. Add MS 88918/6/11

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Title:
Speeches, Eulogies and biographical pieces
Scope & Content:
Typewritten and autograph, a photocopy of autograph draft of eulogy given by Hughes at the funeral of his former teacher and friend, John Fisher, drafts of a piece written about Stephen Spender, a draft of 'Memorial Reading for William Golding, Salisbury Cathedral, November 20th [19]93' and two d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Sep 1988-20 Nov 1993
Extent:
1 folder