The Location Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters at the University of Reading (U.K.) indicates that the University of Edinburgh owns typescripts and/or photocopies of the following poems by Sylvia Plath: "Daddy", "Morning Song", and "Lady Lazarus". These Plath materials are held in the Norman MacCaig papers (MS.3208.10-11). All three poems are typescripts, possibly carbons. They are typed, but it is unclear by whom.
Both "Daddy" and "Lady Lazarus" merge two stanzas together, and someone in an unidentified hand wrote "space" in the margins. Here and there words are crossed out. These typecripts do not necessarily match typescripts of the those poems held at the Mortimer Rare Book Room at Smith College. The typescript of "Morning Song" is unmarked.
Handwritten on each typescript is "Sylvia Plath" in the top right corner. The handwriting is the same as handwriting on "Daddy" and "Lady Lazarus". It is possible that the handwriting is MacCaig's. "Daddy" and "Lady Lazarus" appeared in print together several times through 1963 in various periodicals such as The New Yorker, The Review, and Encounter. In 1966 they were printed in an issue TriQuarterly which focused on Plath.
The University of Edinburgh also has poems by Plath that are unbound and possibly galley proofs. These poems include: "Daddy", "Morning Song", "Lady Lazarus", "Poppies in October", "The Moon and the Yew Tree", and "You're".
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 item.
Both "Daddy" and "Lady Lazarus" merge two stanzas together, and someone in an unidentified hand wrote "space" in the margins. Here and there words are crossed out. These typecripts do not necessarily match typescripts of the those poems held at the Mortimer Rare Book Room at Smith College. The typescript of "Morning Song" is unmarked.
Handwritten on each typescript is "Sylvia Plath" in the top right corner. The handwriting is the same as handwriting on "Daddy" and "Lady Lazarus". It is possible that the handwriting is MacCaig's. "Daddy" and "Lady Lazarus" appeared in print together several times through 1963 in various periodicals such as The New Yorker, The Review, and Encounter. In 1966 they were printed in an issue TriQuarterly which focused on Plath.
The University of Edinburgh also has poems by Plath that are unbound and possibly galley proofs. These poems include: "Daddy", "Morning Song", "Lady Lazarus", "Poppies in October", "The Moon and the Yew Tree", and "You're".
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 item.