The writings are arranged in the following series: Major works, such as articles,
books, broadcasts, plays, radio scripts, screenplays, and short stories;
Introductions to books; Poetry; Reviews; Speeches and lectures; miscellaneous
writings by Hughes; and Writings by others. Each work may include drafts, final
versions and other related materials.
Subseries:
Major Works
Arranged alphabetically by title, one folder for each title, unless otherwise
indicated.
Box 10
Administration of war production, by Hughes and J.D. (John Dick)
Scott
African authors - read your contracts (article)
Albert Schweitzer - Question mark in the jungle (article)
All went wrong (article)
(see also: In the lap of Atlas)
...And Sidi Heyar...
(see: In the Lap of Atlas)
The ants (short story)
(see also: The spider's palace)
Ardudwy (radio broadcast)
Are we right to stick to open fires?
The art of Stevenson (radio script)
As they were driving (short story)
(see also: The spider's palace)
Atlantis: A traveller's notes on the island of Manhattan
(article)
Barring the colored man (article)
Bath Bath (article)
Beyond common sense
(see: Physics, astronomy and mathematics; or beyond common sense)
Bibury (synopsis of story?)
Big seas and little ships (article)
The birth of a hurricane (for radio broadcast?)
The birth of radio drama (radio broadcast)
The blind art (article)
Book talk programs, substituting for Strachey (radio
broadcast)
Boots in cream (short story)
A box of matches (short story)
C.P.R.W. (article)
Calling all bird watchers (radio broadcast)
The canary (see: In the lap of Atlas)
The cart (see: A moment of time)
The cart
(see: A moment of time)
The cat and the mouse (short story)
The cat who had no friends (short story)
Catching Indians (short story)
Cave drawings (article)
Charterhouse and Oxford essays.
(21 items), (3 folders)
The chest
(see: A moment of time)
Childhood days
(see: Harking back)
The China spaniel (short story)
(see also: The spider's palace)
The Christmas Tree (short story)
(see also: The spider's palace)
A comedy of good and evil (stage play)
(8 folders)
(see also: The man born to be hanged)
A comedy of good and evil (radio play)
(2 folders)
The comforter (short story)
Communism (article)
Congo night (radio script)
The conjuror (article)
The constant nymph (play adapted by Hughes from a book by Margaret
Kennedy
(3 folders)
Cornelius Kate
(see: A moment of time)
The country parson
(see: In the lap of Atlas)
The country they forgot (novel)
(6 folders)
The cow
(see: In the lap Atlas)
Box 11
Craig Ddrwg (article)
The crooked answer (short story)
The cruise of the "Tight Little-John," 1917 . Illustrated with pencil
drawing
Cruising round Wales (radio broadcast).
The curse of God (article)
Danger
(2 folders)
(radio script, Jan. 15, 1924 and play at Charterhouse, Feb. 22,
1930; Italian translation of radio script: Pericolo)
The dark child (short story)
(see also: The spider's palace)
Daughter-in-law (play adapted by Hughes from a novel by D.H.
Lawrence)
(4 folders)
The demigod (short story)
The devil-stick
(see: A moment of time)
Diana and the tax collector (short story)
The diary of a steerage passenger
(see: A moment of time)
Dinner for six (short story)
The divided hearts (screenplay)
(9 folders)
Do you understand your children (article)
Does it pay to have five children
(see: Make parenthood possible)
The doll and the mermaid
(see: Gertrude and the mermaid)
The doll who didn't undress (short story)
Don't blame me (short story)
Don't blame me (collection of short stories)
Dry land
(article - see: Miscellaneous. North Wales Hydro-Electric
Development)
The duck and the hen (short story)
Early closing (short story)
The effects of hashish
(see: In the lap of Atlas)
Eheu Fugaces (article)
The elephant's circus (short story)
The elephant's picnic (short story)
An enquiry (article)
The escape of the king (short story)
Evacuation (article)
Exodus (short story)
The eyes of Ben 'Adi
(see: In the lap of Atlas)
The fine traveller (short story)
First cruise of the season (article)
First day in the air (article)
Five of you (see: The five people)
The five people (radio broadcast)
(see also: Poets, painters, puddings)
The fool and the fifteen thieves
(see: In the lap of Atlas)
The fox in the attic
(see: The human predicament, v. I)
The fox's Christmas (short story)
The "friendly" sea (article)
The future looks back: 2 (radio broadcast)
The gardener and the white elephant (short story)
(see also: The spider's palace)
George Barrow: Victorian rebel
(see: Nowhere at home)
Gertrude and the mermaid (short story)
(2 folders)
(see also: The Gertrude story)
The Gertrude story (book of short stories)
The Gertrude story (radio scripts adapted by Jean
Sutcliffe)
The doll and the mermaid, Pt. I; The doll and the mermaid, Pt. II; The
story of Gertrude, Pt. III
Gertrude's child (short story)
(2 folders)
(see also: The Gertrude story)
The ghost
(see: A moment of time)
The glass ball country (short story)
(see also: The spider's palace)
God helps those... (article)
The gold rush (article)
A grateful woman
(see: A woman to talk to)
Guide to some of the season's books for children and older boys and
girls (article)
The Hankin millions (short story and partial script)
Harking back (radio broadcast)
The hasty cook (short story)
(see also: The spider's palace)
Head in the clouds (short story)
Head in the clouds (screenplay)
(2 folders)
Box 12
Head in the clouds (screenplay), cont.
(24 folders)
Heat-wave in Ruritania (radio broadcast)
The herring farm
(see: Head in the clouds)
High wind in Jamaica
(novel) (4 folders)
Box 13
High wind in Jamaica (novel), cont.
(10 folders)
(broadcast script)
(2 folders)
(radio serial)
(9 folders)
(screenplay by Elizabeth Hart, [1934])
(screenplay by T.E.B. Clarke, 1962)
(3 folders)
Box 14
High wind in Jamaica, cont.
(screenplay, by T.E.B. Clarke, 1962), cont.
(4 folders)
Home (short story)
The horse with wings (short story)
The house-cow (short story)
The house in the Kasbah (article)
How "listening plays" are done (article)
The human predicament (novel).
research files (14 folders)
The human predicament (novel), vol. 1: The fox in the attic, Book 1.
(17 folders)
Box 15
The human predicament (novel), vol. 1: The fox in the attic, Book 1,
cont.
(8 folders)
The human predicament (novel), vol. 1: The fox in the attic, Book 2.
(18 folders)
Box 16
The human predicament (novel), vol. 1: The fox in the attic, Book 3.
(17 folders)
The human predicament (novel), vol. 1: The fox in the
attic.
proofs, book jacket design, radio script, etc. (9 folders)
The human predicament (novel), vol. 2: The wooden shepherdess.
research files (6 folders)
Box 17
The human predicament (novel), vol. 2: The wooden shepherdess, Book
1.
(29 folders)
Box 18
The human predicament (novel), vol. 2: The wooden shepherdess, Book
1.
(31 folders)
Box 19
The human predicament (novel), vol. 2: The wooden shepherdess, Book
1.
(3 folders)
The human predicament (novel), vol. 2: The wooden shepherdess, Book
2.
(34 folders)
Box 20
The human predicament (novel), vol. 2: The wooden shepherdess, Book
2.
(14 folders)
The human predicament (novel), vol. 2: The wooden shepherdess, Book
3.
(15 folders)
Box 21
The human predicament (novel), vol. 2: The wooden shepherdess, Book
3.
(11 folders)
The human predicament (novel), vol. 2: The wooden shepherdess.
Galleys, proofs, radio scripts, etc. (10 folders)
The human predicament (novel), vol. 3: (untitled).
(17 folders)
Box 22
I live in Merioneth (article)
I promised to broadcast (radio broadcast)
(See also: copy enclosed in Hughes to Eileen Molony, Dec. 13,
1948. Correspondence--British Broadcasting Corp.)
I speak for myself (radio broadcast, July 2, 1949)
If
(see: Mahomet for merrie England)
Immodest proposals (series of articles)
In hazard: a sea story (novel and radio broadcast)
(12 folders)
(see also: Why I wrote IN HAZARD)
In the lap of Atlas: stories of Morocco (short story, book of short
stories)
(7 folders)
Includes radio script of ...And Sidi Heyar...
Inhaling (short story)
(see also: The spider's palace)
The inn of the blind (short story)
Innocent voyage
(see: High wind in Jamaica)
Interruption (short story)
The invitation (short story)
(see also: The spider's palace)
Is mankind bankrupt? (article)
Is the novel dead - or are you? (article)
Jamaica today (article)
January picnic (short story)
Jenny and Sam (short story)
John Skelton (article and radio broadcast)
(2 folders)
The joys of irresponsibility (article)
Jungle
(see: A moment of time)
The jungle school (short story)
Justice (short story)
The kind man (short story)
Kura and Kurapa (article)
The land Versailles forgot
(see: The country they forgot)
The lark
(see: A run for your money)
Laughing at Netta (short story)
(see: A moment of time)
Let the people eat! (essay)
Lion charming (article)
The littlest army (short story)
Littlest boots (short story)
Living in W'ales (short story)
Llwyd
(see: A moment of time)
Box 23
Lochinva'rovic
(see: A moment of time)
Locomotive
(see: A moment of time)
Lord of the flies (screenplay)
(4 folders)
A love of freedom (short story)
Magic foam (short story)
The magic foxes of Crib Las (short story)
The magic glass (short story)
(see also: The spider's palace)
The magic music (radio play)
Mahomet for merrie England (article)
(see also: Nought is not nothing)
Make parenthood possible! (article)
(3 folders)
The man born to be hanged (play)
Includes program also featuring A comedy of good and evil
The man who sang in his bath (radio play)
The man with a green face (short story)
(see: The spider's palace)
The marmalade cat (short story)
Martha
(see: A moment of time)
Merveilous beastes (article)
Microcosm (article)
Minnie and Mr. Williams (article)
A mirror to collectors (article)
A moment of time (short story, book of short stories)
(9 folders)
Monoculism
(see: A moment of time)
The moon is shining (radio play)
The motherly pig (short story)
Much pennyworth
(see: Poets, painters, puddings)
The mud flats that lie around the mouth of the River Suto
(article)
The mystery of "Star Tiger"
(see: Star Tiger down)
Nationhood (radio broadcast)
The navy is here (unpublished account of German warships
Altmark and
Admiral Graf
Spee)
(13 folders)
Box 24
The navy is here (cont.)
(6 folders)
Nesta (short story)
A night at a cottage
(see: A moment of time)
The nightingale is singing
(see: A run for your money)
The night-light (short story)
The nitwit
(see: ...And Sidi Heyar...[i.e. In the lap of Atlas])
A note on Wales, 1949 (article)
Notes on the way (article)
Notes towards a systematic comparative psychology
(see: An enquiry)
Nothing (short story)
(see also: The spider's palace)
Nought is not nothing (article and radio broadcast)
Nowhere at home: A study of George Barrow (radio
broadcast)
(2 folders)
Number (article)
The object of a university education (article)
The old queen (short story)
(see also: The spider's palace)
The old rolled lady (short story)
Open the door (short story)
Or perhaps to the West Indies? (article)
The organ-recital (short story)
Origin of the state (article)
Our merchant service (radio broadcast)
An outline for boys and girls, by Naomi Mitchison
(see: Physics, astronomy and mathematics; or Beyond common sense)
The overcoat (short story and radio broadcast)
Oxford essays
(see: Charterhouse and Oxford essays)
Pages from a field notebook (short story)
The palace of the rock (short story)
The paraplegic peeress (notes for broadcast?)
The parents cry
(see: Does it pay to have five children)
Passport to Broadmoor
(see: The overcoat)
Penalised parenthood
(see: Does it pay to have five children)
The philosopher king (short story)
Physics, astronomy and mathematics; or beyond common sense
(book)
(5 folders)
Pipe dream
(see: Head in the Clouds)
Pirates (radio broadcast)
Plays (collection of plays)
The poet and the scientist (radio broadcast?)
Poet with frying-pan (article on Robert Graves)
Poets, painters, puddings (unpublished novel about Much
Pennyworth)
(3 folders)
Polish impressions (article)
Poor man's inn
(see: A moment of time)
Portrait of a rum-runner (article)
Public school verse (poetry, edited by Hughes)
(2 folders)
R.L.S.
(see: Robert Louis Stevenson: A centenary tribute)
Radic by J.E. Robertson (article)
The rape of Wales
(see: You should have been here yesterday)
The renaissance of Wales (article)
Revolution in Tetouan (article)
Richard Hughes: An omnibus (collection of short stories, poems and
plays)
(2 folders)
The road-makers (article)
Robert Louis Stevenson: A centenary tribute (radio
broadcast)
A run for your money (screenplay)
(1 folder)
Box 25
A run for your money (screenplay), cont.
(8 folders)
Running away to sea or the tiger cat (play)
Safe among lions (article)
Sailing (article)
The school (short story)
(see also: The spider's palace)
The sea
(see: A moment of time)
A sea story (short story)
The second revolution (article)
The serenade (radio play)
Shall grandmama go to the moon?
(see: We gave our grandmother)
She caught hold of the toe
(see: A moment of time)
Shifting sands and estuarial channels (article)
Silver ponies (short story)
The sisters' tragedy (play)
(6 folders)
The sitter-in (short story and broadcast)
(3 folders)
Situations vacant
(see: The sitter-in)
The soapy-boy (short story)
Speculum antiquarii (article)
The spider's palace (short story and book of short
stories)
(8 folders)
Star Tiger down (article)
A story about mice (short story)
The story of Daphne and Dick
(see: The story of Dolly and and Dick)
Welsh guide book
(see: Cruising round Wales)
A Welsh journey (radio play)
(3 folders)
The Welsh National Theatre (article)
Why I wrote In Hazard (article)
The widow and the Djinn
(see: Two pots of gold)
The wild hills of Gwynedd (article)
The will
(see: In the lap of Atlas)
Willow pattern
(see: January picnic)
The wise mouse (short story)
The wishing-shell (short story)
A woman to talk to
(see: In the lap of Atlas)
The wonder dog (short story)
The wonder dog (collection of short stories)
Drafts of introduction and artwork
The wooden horse (radio play?)
The wooden shepherdess
(see: The human predicament, v.II)
Work (short story)
The world of the nose
(see: Harking back)
The writer and his times (radio broadcast)
The writer's duty (radio broadcast)
Writing in a minor language (radio broadcast)
Wyatt, Surrey, Sackville (article)
You should have been here yesterday
The young Robert Graves
(see: Poet with frying pan)
"0" [Zero]
(see: Mahomet for merrie England and Nought is not nothing)
Zug, the cave man (short story)
Subseries:
Reviews of books and plays
Arranged alphabetically by title of review, or, where lacking, by title of
book:
Box 27
Adventure in space
(see: The scholarship of knots)
All God's chillun got wings.
(see: The scholarship of knots)
All God's Chillun
Got Wings,
play by Eugene O'Neill
As if... Katherine Mansfield, by Anthony Alpers
Ballet.
Balletmania, by Arnold Haskell
untitled.
The Beauty of Sail, by Arnold Haskell
The Beauty of Sail, pictures by Beken,
words by Uffa Fox and
The Yachtsman's Week-end
Book
Bloomsbury.
The Bloomsbury Group: a Study of E.M.
Forster
, Lytton Strachey,
Virginia
Woolf and their Circle
, by J.K. Johnstone
But this is poetry.
Dear Judas, and Other Poems, by Robinson
Jeffers
untitled.
Camera obscura, by William Bolitho
Central Europe from inside.
Austria in Dissolution, by Stephan, Count
Burian and
Fighting the World, by Count
Michel Karolyi
Circumperambulating the globe.
Half-safe: Across the Atlantic by Jeep, by
Ben Carlin
Connolly's essence.
The Golden Horizon, edited by Cyril
Connolly
Elia afloat.
On Sailing the Sea, A Collection of the Seagoing
Writings of Hilaire Belloc
, selected by W.N. Roughead
untitled.
The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R.
Tolkien
The friendly sea.
The Bombard Story, by Dr. Alain Bombard
untitled.
Gipsy Moth Circles the World, by Francis
Chichester
Guilt under the microscope.
Nuremberg Diary, by G.M. Gilbert
The heart of a book.
Sailing Alone Round the World, by Joshua
Slocum
John Strachey.
John Strachey, by Hugh Thomas
Joyce Cary.
Except the Lord, by Joyce Cary
Laughter from the doldrums.
Adventures in the Skin Trade, by Dylan
Thomas
The Lawrence letters.
The Letters of T.E. Lawrence of Arabia,
edited by David Garnett
Lyautey.
Lyautey of Morocco, by Sonia Howe
Lyautey.
Lyautey, by Andre Maurois
Magellan, Pigafetta, Zweig.
Magellan, Pioneer of the Pacific, by
Stefan Zweig
The Master.
Cavender's House, by Edwin Arlington
Robinson
untitled.
The memoirs of a Buccaneer, by Louis le
Golif
Microcosm.
Immortal Sails, by Henry Hughes
The mind of genius.
The Opposing Self: Nine Essays in
Criticism
, by Lionel Trilling
Mrs. Dalloway.
Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf
Mr. Forster's quandary.
The Hill of Devil, by E.M. Forster
Morocco.
Quest Romantic, by Captain F. H. Mellor
and
The Folklore of Morocco, by Francoise
Legey
A note on books for children. Reviews of various children's
books
Numen inest.
The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, T.E.
Lawrence
Poetry.
Poems, by William Empson,
The Fox's Covert, by Blanaid Salkeld and
Poems, by Stella Benson
Poets and poetry.
The Flaming Terrapin, by Roy Campbell
The power of words.
The Power of Words, by Stuart Chase
The scholarship of knots.
The Ashley Book of Knots, by Clifford W.
Ashley
The sea's mercy.
The Kon-Tiki Expedition, by Thor
Heyerdahl
The Serajevo crime.
The Serajevo Crime, by Edith Durham
Ships.
Ships, by Hendrik van Loon
Single-handed.
Wind Aloft, Wind Alow by Marin-Marie
The smell of the white man.
Passing of the Aborigines, by Daisy Bates
The Strachey family.
The Strachey Family, by Charles R.
Sanders
Under Milk Hill.
Under Milk Wood, by Dylan Thomas
Virginia Woolf.
A Writer's Diary, Being Extracts from the Diary of
Virginia Woolf
, edited by Leonard Woolf
Welsh literature.
A History of Welsh Literature, by Thomas
Parry and
An Introduction to Welsh Poetry from the
Beginnings to the Sixteenth Century
, by Gwyn Williams
untitled.
The Wilder Shores of Love, by Lesley
Blanch
Subseries:
Writings by others
Arranged alphabetically by author:
Box 28
Bartrum, Peter C. Arthur's Saga
(2 folders)
Beavers, Ann Arden. Poems
Bianco, Margery Williams. Poor Cecco
C___, Christopher M. [Lenin]
Coke-Kerr, W.R. When Bill walked to Belah
Davies, Peredur J. They burn alive
Davies, Rhys. A Bed of Feathers
Fischer, Marina. Pen and ink sketch
FitzGibbon, Constantine, translator.
The Answers of Ernst Von Salomon
The Life of Dylan Thomas
Gough, Simon, et al. Poems
Graves, Clarissa. Character from Writing
Greaves, Rose. The Stranger, A Comedy in One Act
Haufstaengl, Egon. Vita et Veritas?
(3 folders)
Hillman, Diane. A Christmas Fantasy
Isaacs, J. John Skelton - book review. BBC Third
Programme
Jeffers, Robinson. Dear Judas and Other Poems
Johnson, Charles. Noson Gymreig
Johnson, J. Chester. Poems
Lawrence, D.H. A Collier's Friday Night
Mitchell, Ronald Elwy.
Deep Waters: A Play of North Wales in Three Acts
The Royal Inn, in One Act
Box 29
O'Farrell, R.C. Inshore
Owen, Charles Alexander H. Weigh and Proceed, The Story of One Day
in the Life of H.M. Destroyer "Resolve"
Penn-Smith, Frank. Justice
Poole, Richard.
Fiction as Truth: Richard Hughes's THE HUMAN
PREDICAMENT
The Novels of Richard Hughes
Morality and Selfhood in the Novels of Richard Hughes
Porter, Alan. John Lyly
Quennell, Peter.
The Masque of Thin Horses
Masques & Poems
Sartre, Jean-Paul. Crime Passionel!
English translation with notes in Hughes's hand
Satow, Gwenol. Dead Bird Piece
Sharwood Smith, John E. The White Rabbit
Thomas, Dylan. Poems
Thomas, Gwyn. The Singers of Meadow Prospect
Thomas, Peter Derek.
Cow Moose
Measuring the Wind: The Early Writings of Richard
Hughes
Richard Hughes's Children and the Lost Generation
Tolstoy, Leo. Ivan the Fool and Other Tales
Zilliacus, Stella. Forty-Eight Hours, A Play in Three
Acts
unknown. On the Correct and Improved Writing of English
various. Stories by children
