HUGHES, TED, 1930-1998.
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Scope and Content Note

The subseries consists of communications of a contractual and/or editorial nature sent to Hughes by the editors or publishing houses that produced his volumes of poetry and other books from 1964-1996. The correspondence includes letters from his publishers Faber and Faber and Harper and Row, the British Broadcasting Corporation, as well as correspondence related to his work on behalf of the Arvon Foundation. The subseries also includes literary contracts from the 1950s-1990s.

Arrangement Note

Arranged in alphabetical order.

Scope and Content Note The subseries consists of communications of a contractual and/or editorial nature sent to Hughes by the editors or publishing houses that produced his volumes of poetry and other books from 1964-1996. The correspondence includes letters from his publishers Faber and Faber and Harper and Row, the British Broadcasting Corporation, as well as correspondence related to his work on behalf of the Arvon Foundation. The subseries also includes literary contracts from the 1950s-1990s.

Box	Folder	Content
11	1	Arvon, 1971, 1 item
11	2	Arvon, 1972, 10 items
11	3	Arvon, 1973, 10 items
11	4	Arvon, 1974, 2 items
11	5	Arvon, 1975, 6 items
11	6	Arvon, 1976, 3 items
11	7	Arvon, 1977, 5 items
11	8	Arvon, 1978, 9 items
11	9	Arvon, 1979, 17 items
11	10	Arvon, 1980, 18 items
11	11	Arvon, 1981, 32 items
11	12	Arvon, 1982, 34 items
11	13	Arvon, 1983, 14 items
11	14	Arvon, 1984, 12 items
11	15	Arvon, 1985, 7 items
11	16	Arvon, 1986, 5 items
11	17	Arvon, 1987, 2 items
11	18	Arvon, 1988, 2 items
11	19	Arvon, 1989, 3 items
11	20	Arvon, 1990, 5 items
11	21	Arvon, 1992, 1 item
11	22	Arvon, 1993, 13 items
11	23	Arvon, 1994, 11 items
11	24	Arvon, undated, 61 items
11	25	Arvon, Misc. material, 13 items
11	26	British Broadcasting Corporation, April 24, 1961-April 1968, 9 items [See also Subseries 2.3: "One Glance at the Sea"]
11	27	British Broadcasting Corporation, October 1970-October 1975, 23 items
11	28	British Broadcasting Corporation, January 1976-November 1977, 17 items
11	29	British Broadcasting Corporation, June 1978-December 1978, 10 items
11	30	British Broadcasting Corporation, January 1979-December 1985, 20 items
11	31	British Broadcasting Corporation, March 1992-1996, 11 items
11	32	The Cat and the Cuckoo, Various letters, etc.
11	33	Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath, Correspondence Sylvia Plath, Correspondence
12	1	Faber and Faber, before 1971, 10 items
12	2	Faber and Faber, 1971-1975, 43 items
12	3	Faber and Faber, 1976, 19 items
12	4	Faber and Faber, 1977, 28 items
12	5	Faber and Faber, 1978-1980, 40 items
12	6	Faber and Faber, 1981, 16 items
12	7	Faber and Faber, 1982, 26 items
12	8	Faber and Faber, 1983, 22 items
12	9	Faber and Faber, 1984, 20 items
12	10	Faber and Faber, 1985, 21 items
12	11	Faber and Faber, 1985, 18 item (includes 1 edit copy of Season Songs)
12	12	Faber and Faber, 1986, 7, items (includes 2 copies of Ffangs illustrations)
12	13	Faber and Faber, 1986, 15 items
12	14	Faber and Faber, 1987, 4 letters, 1 copy of original pages of Moon-Whales, 51 page proof of Moon-WhalesMoon-Whales
12	15	Faber and Faber, 1987, 8 items
13	1	Faber and Faber, 1987, 4 items [includes 1 illustration paste-up for Moon-Whales]
13	2	Faber and Faber, 1987, 1 item [includes 2 page proofs of Moon-Whales]
13	3	Faber and Faber, 1987, 8 items
13	4	Faber and Faber, 1988, 6 items [Includes 1 page proof of Tales of the Early World]
13	5	Faber and Faber, 1988, 13 items
13	6	Faber and Faber, 1989, 29 items
14	1	Faber and Faber, 1990, 19 items
14	2	Faber and Faber, 1991, 58 items
14	3	Faber and Faber, 1992, 45 items
14	4	Faber and Faber, 1993, 27 items
14	5	Faber and Faber, 1994, 24 items
14	6	Faber and Faber, 1995, 29 items
14	7	Faber and Faber, 1996 and undated, 29 items
14	8	Faber and Faber, Promotional material, 2 items
14	9	Faber and Faber, Misc. material, 8 items
14	10	Faber and Faber: Permissions, 1988, 1991, 5 items
14	11	Faber and Faber: Permissions, February-May 1992, 13 items
14	12	Faber and Faber: Permissions, June-December 1992, 9 items
15	1	Faber and Faber: Permissions, January-June 1993, 12 items
15	2	Faber and Faber: Permissions, July-August 1993, 10 items
15	3	Faber and Faber: Permissions, September 1993, 4 items
15	4	Faber and Faber: Permissions, October-December 1993, 7 items
15	5	Faber and Faber: Permissions, February-May 1994, 13 items
15	6	Faber and Faber: Permissions, June-July 1994, 8 items
15	7	Faber and Faber: Permissions, August-December 1994, 8 items
15	8	Faber and Faber: Permissions, January-March 1995, 13 items
15	9	Faber and Faber: Permissions, April-June 1995, 17 items
15	10	Faber and Faber: Permissions, July-December 1995, 9 items
15	11	Faber and Faber: Permissions, January-March 1996, 13 items
15	12	Faber and Faber: Permissions, April-July 1996, 15 items
15	13	Faber and Faber: Permissions, August-December 1996, 15 items
16	1	Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, February-March 1996, 2 items [includes notes on Ovid]
16	2	Harper and Row, August 1965-December 1974, 13 items and 1 copy of Ted Hughes NowHarper and Row, August 1965-December 1974, 13 items and 1 copy of
16	3	Harper and Row, January-November 1975-1977, 29 items [Includes January 1975 notes on Letters Home
16	4	Harper and Row, 1978-1980, 14 items
16	5	Harper and Row, January-November 1981, 14 items
16	6	Harper and Row, 1982-1993, 16 items
16	7	Harper and Row, Royalty statements, 1 item
16	8	Pilot Productions, April 1986, 5 items [Includes editing notes on Flowers and Insects]
16	9	Misc. permissions, 1993-1996, 24 items
16	10	Literary contracts list
16	11	Literary contracts, 1950s
16	12	Literary contracts, 1960s
16	13	Literary contracts, 1970s
16	14	Literary contracts, 1980s
16	15	Literary contracts, 1990s