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Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

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1 typescript letter signed from Hughes to Cooke, 1973

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Reference Code: GBR/1058/COO/5/38/1
Scope and Contents

1 typescript letter signed with manuscript annotations enclosing a copy of Sylvia Plath's poem 'Burning the Letters', illustrated by Leonard Baskin and published by the Rainbow Press and a small annotated cutting.

Dates: 1973
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Archive reading room is open by appointment, Wednesdays-Fridays, but all visits must be booked in advance. Photographs may not be taken of the Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes material without the permission of the Estates. The Archivist can provide further information and contact details for permissions. The remainder of the collection may be photographed for private research, subject to UK copyright provisions. Those wishing to publish from the collection should seek advice from the Archivist prior to publication.
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'Kinship' and other poems, 1974

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Reference Code: GBR/1058/COO/1/1/10
Scope and Contents Unsigned typescripts, many with illustrations by Cooke. 'Turf Burning' Typescript. 'Come to the Bower' Typescript with manuscript annotations and drawings by Cooke. 'Kinship' 1-5 Typescripts, with an alternative version for part 4. Parts 1, 2, 3 and 5 have drawings and watercolours by Cooke 'Punishment' 2 different typescripts, one of which has...
Dates: Publication: 1974
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Fonds: The Seamus Heaney material is open for consultation but photographs may not be taken without the permission of the Seamus Heaney Estate. Those wishing to publish any material that is the copyright of the Seamus Heaney Estate should seek permission from the Estate prior to publication. The Archivist can provide further information and contact details for the Estate.
 Sub-Series

Olwyn Hughes (1928-2016), 1973

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/1058/COO/5/38
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

Correspondence, prose and poetry.

Dates: 1973
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Archive reading room is open by appointment, Wednesdays-Fridays, but all visits must be booked in advance. Photographs may not be taken of the Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes material without the permission of the Estates. The Archivist can provide further information and contact details for permissions. The remainder of the collection may be photographed for private research, subject to UK copyright provisions. Those wishing to publish from the collection should seek advice from the Archivist prior to publication.
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Rainbow Press, 1979

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9816/B1/17
Scope and Contents

Broadsides of 2 poems, 'February 17th' and 'Ravens' by Ted Hughes.

Dates: 1979
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Robert Lowell, Sonnets (project of the Rainbow Press; not printed), 1971

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9816/A/38
Scope and Contents

Trial copy (typescript) and settings; correspondence between the Rainbow Press (Olwyn Hughes) and Will and Sebastian Carter.

Dates: 1971
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Sylvia Plath, Dialogue over a ouija board; with a drawing by Leonard Baskin (Rainbow Press, 1981), 1978-1981

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9816/A/110
Scope and Contents

Copy (typescript); layouts; artwork; page proofs; correspondence with Sebastian Carter and other papers. Correspondence is with the Rainbow Press (Olwyn Hughes), including a letter of 1978 on another project to print short stories of Sylvia Plath.

Dates: 1978-1981
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Sylvia Plath, Lyonnesse (Rainbow Press, 1971), 1971

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9816/A/33
Scope and Contents

Copy (photocopy of autograph manuscript); layouts; galley proofs; artwork; dummies; correspondence between the Rainbow Press (Olwyn Hughes) and Will Carter.

Dates: 1971
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Sylvia Plath, Pursuit (Rainbow Press, 1973), 1973

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9816/A/54
Scope and Contents

Page proof; letters from Olwyn Hughes to Will Carter.

Dates: 1973
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Ted Hughes, Earth-moon (Rainbow Press, 1976), 1973-1976

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9816/A/72
Scope and Contents

Galley proof, marked; layout; artwork; paste-up; correspondence between the Rainbow Press (Olwyn Hughes) and Sebastian Carter, and other papers.

Dates: 1973-1976
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Ted Hughes, Henry Williamson: a tribute (Rainbow Press, 1979), 1978-1979

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9816/A/95
Scope and Contents

Various proofs; paste-up; correspondence between the Rainbow Press (Olwyn Hughes) and Sebastian Carter, and other papers.

Dates: 1978-1979
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Ted Hughes, Moortown elegies (Rainbow Press, 1978), 1977-1978

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9816/A/90
Scope and Contents

Layouts; estimate; artwork; proofs of illustration by Leonard Baskin; trial layouts of cover; paper and leather samples; various partial proofs; letters from Olwyn Hughes to Will Carter.

Dates: 1977-1978
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Ted Hughes, Remains of Elmet; photographs by Fay Godwin (Rainbow Press, 1979), 1976-1979

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9816/A/96
Scope and Contents

Copy (typescript photocopy); drawings, layouts, artwork (in a folder marked 'Preparatory'); layouts and memoranda (in a folder marked 'Printing plan'); paste-up of title-page spread, cover labels, partial proofs of text (in a folder marked 'Pasteup/proofs'); original photographs and proofs, marked; correspondence between the Rainbow Press (Olwyn Hughes) and Sebastian Carter, including a typescript of an extra poem for inclusion (in a folder marked 'Correspondence').

Dates: 1976-1979
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Ted Hughes, Spring, summer, autumn, winter (Rainbow Press, 1973), 1973

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9816/A/55
Scope and Contents

Layouts; estimates; page proof; paste-up; correspondence between the Rainbow Press (Olwyn Hughes) and Sebastian Carter.

Dates: 1973
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

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