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Add MS 88918/15/1-2
- Record Id:
- 037-000374598
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000374435
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000028.0x0001b8
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88918/15/1-2
- Title:
- The Rattle Bag
- Scope & Content:
- Partly printed and typewritten, partly autograph. Contains notes on poets, photocopies of poems presumably collected during the selection process, some of which are arranged by poet, lists of contents and a leaflet about W.B. Yeats's house. Letters from Faber and Faber relating to publication of the anthology, which was compiled and edited by Hughes and Seamus Heaney, and correspondence relating to a later project that would have involved copies of The Rattle Bag being placed in Forte hotel rooms is included. A partial copy of a letter by Hughes to Rebecca Desmarais and a letter to Hughes from Keith Sagar are also included.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000374435
036-000374595
037-000374598 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88918 : Edward James Hughes Papers
Add MS 88918/13-16 : Poetry Anthologies
Add MS 88918/15/1-2 : The Rattle Bag - Hierarchy:
- 032-000374435[0003]/036-000374595[0003]/037-000374598
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88918
- Record Type (Level):
- SubSeries
- Extent:
- 2 folders
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1981
- End Date:
- 1994
- Date Range:
- 8 Aug 1981-24 Nov 1994
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Arrangement:
- Originally found in a a box file containing correspondence relating to The School Bag and The Rattle Bag
- Publications:
- Published by Faber and Faber in 1982.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Heaney, Seamus Justin, poet and writer, 1939-2013