The Sydney Jones Library at the University of Liverpool holds several typescripts of poems by Sylvia Plath.
Typescripts held are: "Three Women" [MS.26.1(64)], "The Moon and the Yew Tree" [MS.26.1(65)], "The Rabbit Catcher" [MS.26.1(66)], and "Among the Narcissi" [MS.26.1(67)]. The reference number is: GB 141 Plath.
The typescript of "The Rabbit Catcher" is annotated; the word "CHEVREAU" is handwritten in next to the first line, "It was a place a force." The handwriting does appear to be Plath's. There are other small annotations (not in Plath's hand) and variations on the typescripts to those Ariel typescripts held at the Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College. The typescript of "Three Women" appears to be a reading copy - or something similar - for a 1968 broadcast of the verse poem. The Special Collections also holds a respectible collection of books by Plath.
The Sydney Jones Library (Special Collections) at the University of Liverpool holds many Ted Hughes related items, as well as other contemporary poets such as Seamus Heaney. To search for items in their catalog, click here.
I would like to thank Edward Mendelson of Columbia University for directing me towards the Location Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters at the University of Reading (U.K.), which enabled me to locate these items. Last December, I posted a list of other Sylvia Plath items held by unknown or unlisted libraries. Many of these listings have been confirmed through the Location Register. I am in the process of confirming other holdings listed through this database and will report on each as I can.
Typescripts held are: "Three Women" [MS.26.1(64)], "The Moon and the Yew Tree" [MS.26.1(65)], "The Rabbit Catcher" [MS.26.1(66)], and "Among the Narcissi" [MS.26.1(67)]. The reference number is: GB 141 Plath.
The typescript of "The Rabbit Catcher" is annotated; the word "CHEVREAU" is handwritten in next to the first line, "It was a place a force." The handwriting does appear to be Plath's. There are other small annotations (not in Plath's hand) and variations on the typescripts to those Ariel typescripts held at the Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College. The typescript of "Three Women" appears to be a reading copy - or something similar - for a 1968 broadcast of the verse poem. The Special Collections also holds a respectible collection of books by Plath.
The Sydney Jones Library (Special Collections) at the University of Liverpool holds many Ted Hughes related items, as well as other contemporary poets such as Seamus Heaney. To search for items in their catalog, click here.
I would like to thank Edward Mendelson of Columbia University for directing me towards the Location Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters at the University of Reading (U.K.), which enabled me to locate these items. Last December, I posted a list of other Sylvia Plath items held by unknown or unlisted libraries. Many of these listings have been confirmed through the Location Register. I am in the process of confirming other holdings listed through this database and will report on each as I can.