HUGHES, TED, 1930-1998.
Ted Hughes papers > Writings by Ted Hughes > Prose > Uncollected short stories

Subseries 2.4a
Uncollected short stories
Box 87: folders 1-4; OP8

Scope and Content Note

The subseries consists of manuscript and typescript drafts of uncollected short stories by Ted Hughes. Because of Hughes' propensity to reuse paper, cross-references are used to note locations of related materials in other parts of the collection.

Arrangement Note

Arranged in alphabetical order.

Box Folder Content
87 1 "Before much is changing constantly," MS
87 2 "The Callum-Makers: A Fable," TS [unpublished? Address given is "c/o S. Plath, Whitstead, 4 Barton Road, Cambridge"]
87 3 "The Caning," Texas Quarterly, Winter 1960 [C82], TS [See also Subseries 2.5: The Tiger's Bones, MS] The Tiger's Bones, MS]
- - "The Champion of the Universe," MS misc. prose [See Subseries 2.3: "Only Your Ivory Smooth Body"]
- - "The Courting of Petty Quinnett," TS fragment [See Subseries 2.3: "Lines of a Newborn Baby," "The rain came on during the battle," and "This fistful of freshly-turned vitality"]
OP8 2 "Miss Mambrett and the Wet Cellar," Texas Quarterly, Autumn 1961 [C102], uncorrected proof
- - "Patrick and the Fox-People: A Serial Story in Six Chapters" [See Subseries 2.4c: Five American Poets]
- - "Rats" [See Subseries 2.5: The Tiger's Bones, MS]
- - "Sparrow Desert," TS [See Subseries 2.4c: Five American Poets; Subseries 2.4c: Selected Poems, by Keith Douglas; and Subseries 2.6: The Earth Owl and Other Moon People, "The Adaptable Mountain-Dugong" and "Moon-Horrors"] Selected Poems, by Keith Douglas; and Subseries 2.6: The Earth Owl and Other Moon People, "The Adaptable Mountain-Dugong" and "Moon-Horrors"]
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