Sylvia Plath collection, 1940-1981.

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Sylvia Plath collection, 1940-1981.

The collection contains approximately 4,000 pages of Plath's manuscripts and typescripts. This includes a group of 67 poems in successive draft that are part of the Ariel poems. Also drafts of early poems, some with notes by Alfred Young Fisher. There are typescripts of The bell jar. Also drafts of articles, broadcasts, reviews and short stories. There are her journals, drawings and correspondence. Correspondence includes letters to and/or from Al Alvarez, Dorothy Schober Benotti, Ruth Barnhouse, Ruth Fainlight, Ann Davidow Goodman Hayes, Elinor Friedman Klein, Philip Emerald McCurdy, Enid Epstein Mark, James Michie, Marianne Moore, Howard Moss, Hans-Joachim Neupert, Aurelia Schober Plath, Otto Emil Plath, Olive Higgins Prouty, G. Jon Rosenthal, Stevie Smith, Marcia Brown Stern, and other friends, publishers and editors. Also memorabilia from childhood, school and adult life. Included in the realia is her English elm writing board, furniture she painted and her typewriter.

ca. 12 linear ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7671269

Smith College, Neilson Library

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Stern, Marcia Brown.

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Smith, Stevie, 1902-1971

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Hughes, Ted, 1930-1998

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Fainlight, Ruth

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Prouty, Olive Higgins, 1882-1974

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Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972

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Michie, James 1861-1919

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Alvarez, A. (Alfred), 1929-

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English poet and novelist. From the description of The catharsis : manuscript copy of the poem in the hand of Edith Sitwell, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 772521905 ...

Hughes, Ted, 1913-

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Hughes, Olwyn.

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Neupert, Hans-Joachim 1929-

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Mark, Enid

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Plath, Aurelia Schober

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Barnhouse, Ruth Tiffany, 1923-

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Benotti, Dorothy Schober.

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Rosenthal, G. Jon.

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Moss, Howard, 1922-1987

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Davidow-Goodman, Ann.

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McCurdy, Philip Emerald.

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Klein, Elinor

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Fisher, Alfred Young

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Fisher was educated at Princeton University (A.B., 1927) and received his doctorate in 1931 from the University of Dijon. He taught English at the Valley Ranch Preparatory School, Valley, Wyoming, 1927-1929; University of Dijon, 1930-1931; Occidental College, 1934-1936; and Smith College, 1937-1967. He died 1970 in Princeton, N.J. From the description of Alfred Young Fisher papers, ca. 1930-1970. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 53452857 ...