Add MS 78757

TED HUGHES CORRESPONDENCE. VOL. II. (ff.198). Correspondence between Ted Hughes and Keith Sagar. Mostly autograph, with enclosures chiefly typescript with autograph corrections and notes, including some photocopied folios. Works discussed include: Gaudete (ff.1, 7, 31-34); ‘The Thought Fox’ (ff.22-23); ‘Truth Kills Everybody’, ‘Ghost Crabs’, ‘Love Song’, The Iron Man, ‘Song for a Phallus’ (ff.31-34); The Pig Organ (f.38); Prometheus on his Crag (ff.39-41); ‘Rain Charm’ (f.149); ‘The Best Worker in Europe’ (f.150); ‘The Dream of the Lion’ (ff.157-158); ‘A Centenary Toast to T.S. Eliot’ (f.196). Enclosures include: ‘If searching can’t find you’ (f.9); Forward to a collection of Sagar’s poetry (ff.36-37); List of “uncollected” poems belonging to Sagar, many of which are present in Adds. 78756-78761, (reverse of ff.55-56); ‘Crow Outlawed’, ‘A crow Joke’, ‘A Near Thing’, ‘Opportunity’, ‘Crow Fails’ (see also Add.78761 f.126), ‘Carrion Tiresias Examines the Sacrifice’, ‘Crow Compromises’ (see also Add. 78761 f.127) (ff.58-64); ‘Gulcana River’ (f..79-82); ‘The Honey Bee’ (f.91); ‘Sunstruck Foxglove’ (f.92); Blundell School Magazine, Enter Rumour (f.94-117), in which is reproduced ‘Milesian Encounter on the Sligachan’ (ff.106-107); ‘The Hanged Man and the Dragonfly: A Note for a Panegyric Ode, Celebrating the Publication of Leonard Baskin’s Collected Prints’ (ff.121-135); ‘Cormarants’ (f.139); ‘Ballad of the Bideford Browns’ (f.143, author unclear); excised lines from ‘Rain Charm’ (f.149); lines from ‘The Best Worker in Europe’ (f.150); “expunged” version of ‘The Old Goat’ (f.164); ‘The Hen’ and ‘The Old Crow’ (ff.167); ‘A Centenary Toast to T.S. Eliot’ (f.173-195).