Add MS 83684

Hughes-Baskin Papers Vol. i (ff. 185). Correspondence between Ted Hughes and Leonard Baskin, including enclosures of poetic manuscripts with some illustrations by Baskin; 1958-1972. Autograph and typewritten, with enclosures chiefly typewritten with autograph corrections. Also includes occasional letters and enclosed manuscripts from Sylvia Plath (b.1932, d.1962), one letter from Olwyn Hughes (b.1928) and two publishers' letters to Baskin. The letters include discussion of individual poems and collections, Hughes's children (ff. 25, 30, 32-33), domestic news including the Court Green house in Devon and his Yorkshire home (f. 30, f.171, f. 185) and Sylvia Plath (f. 30). Individual poems and sequences discussed and enclosed include: Pike (ff. 1-9, 14-17); Meet My Folks (f. 11, ff. 18-20); broadcast of radio play, The Wound, which was collected in Wodwo (ff. 32-33); Crow (ff. 36-108, 110-169, 173-183); and Orghast (ff. 181-183). Plath's letters include discussion and typewritten draft of 'Goatsucker' (ff. 14-15, 22-23, 27-29). Also includes two letters jointly penned by Plath and Hughes, comprising one in which Plath discusses her poem 'Sculptor' and Hughes asks Baskin to design the cover for The Feast of Lupercal (f. 16) and a second letter in which Plath writes about the difficulties of balancing writing with domestic duties and Hughes discusses his introduction for the catalogue to Baskin's exhibition, part of the Graven Image Exhibition held in London in 1962 (f. 34). There is also one letter from Baskin to Hughes relating to a major exhibition of Baskin's work at the Boyman's Museum in Rotterdam (f. 26).