Materials in this group are divided into poetry and prose, and the prose into
fiction and non-fiction. All are by Sylvia Plath unless otherwise noted. The
manuscript for Letters Home, edited by Aurelia Plath, completes the
section.
Subseries:
Poetry
Box 7
Folder 7
A
"Admonition." 2 typescript drafts, 1 with
holograph changes. n.d.
"Adolescence." 2 typescript drafts, 1 with
holograph changes. 1949.
"Advice for an Artificer." 2 drafts,
typescript and carbon. n.d.
"All I Can Tell You Is about the Fog." 3
typescript drafts, 1 with holograph changes, 1 for English
220b(b) with instructor's comments. n.d.
"Alone and Alone in the Woods Was I."
Typescript with holograph changes. [ca.
1948] 2p.[See also Youth]
"Among the tall deep-rooted grasses" [first line].
Typescript. n.d.
"Apology to Pan." Typescript carbon with
holograph change in title from Apology to an April Satyr.
n.d.
Apotheosis. 2 typescript drafts. 1957. [See also To a Jilted Lover]
"Apparel for April." 3 typescript drafts,
1 with holograph changes; typescript carbon. n.d.
"April." 2 typescript drafts. May 20,
1947.
"April Aubade." Typescript. [ca. 1956] [See also Spring
Sacrament]
"April 18." Typescript. n.d.
"Aquatic Nocturne." 3 typescript drafts, 1
with holograph changes; typescript carbon, 2 p. 1954.
"august night." Typescript. 1954.
Box 7
Folder 8
B
"A Ballad." Typescript. Used the pseudonym
Sandra Peters. n.d.
"Ballad Banale." Typescript carbon.
n.d.
[Bathtub Battle Scene]. Typescript with holograph
changes. n.d. Signed. Carries title:
Battle-Scene from the Comic Operatic Fantasy The
Seafarer.
"Bereft." 3 typescript drafts and 1
carbon. 1947.
[Bitter Strawberries]. Typescript carbon with holograph
changes. Sept. 10, 1950
Carries title: Swords into Plowshares.
"Black Pine Tree in an Orange light."
Typescript carbon. n.d.
"Blue shingled rooftops slippery with rain" [first line].
Typescript. [ca.
1947]
"Bluebeard." Typescript. n.d.
"The Bronze Boy." 2 typescript drafts: 1
with instructor's comments, 1 untitled. n.d.
Box 7
Folder 9
C
"Candles." Typescript with holograph
corrections and inscription from Plath to Olive Higgins Prouty.
Dec. 1960.
"Carnival." Typescript. June 21, 1948.
"Carnival Nocturne." Typescript carbon.
n.d.
"Checkmate." Typescript carbon. n.d.
"Chef d'Oeuvre." Typescript. n.d.
"Child's Park Stones." Typescript with
holograph changes. [ca.
1958]
"Cinderella." 2 typescript drafts with
holograph changes, 1 with instructor's comments; 1 typescript
carbon. 1954.
"Circus in Three Rings." 3 typescript
drafts. n.d.
"City Streets." Typescript and carbon.
n.d.
"City Wife." Typescript. n.d.
Class Song - 1950. Typescript. [1950]
"Closet Drama." Typescript carbon.
n.d.
"Complaint." Typescript with holograph
corrections. n.d.
"The Complex Couch. 2 typescript drafts, 1
marked out. n.d.
"Crime Doesn't Pay. Typescript. n.d.
"Crossing the Equinox." 5 typescript
drafts, 1 with instructor's comments. n.d. Some drafts carry the
title: Sonnet: Crossing the Equinox.
Box 7
Folder 10
D
"Danse Macabre." 2 typescript drafts, 1
marked out; 1 typescript carbon. n.d.
"The Dark River." 2 typescript drafts.
[ca. 1949]
"The Dead." 5 typescript drafts: 2 with
holograph changes, 1 for English 220b(b with instructor's
comments; 1 typescript carbon. Apr. 11, 1952.
"Denouement." Typescript with holograph
changes. n.d.
"Departure of the Ghost." Signed
typescript with holograph changes. n.d.
"Desert Song." Typescript carbon.
n.d.
"The Desperate Hours." Typescript carbon.
n.d.
"Dialogue En Route." Typescript and
carbon. n.d. Included are typescript comments about the
poem by Plath.
"Dialogue over a Ouija Board;" A Verse
Dialogue. Typescript and carbon with 1 holograph change.
[ca. 1958] 11 p. and 11
p.
"Dirge for a Joker." Typescript. n.d.
"Dirge for Abigail." 2 typescript drafts.
1954. 1 draft carries
title: Dirge for a Maiden Aunt.
"Dirge in Three Parts." 2 typescript
drafts. n.d.
"The Dispossessed." 2 typescript carbons.
n.d.
"Doom of Exiles." Typescript with
holograph changes and with the pseudonym Alison Arnold; 1
typescript carbon. n.d.
"Doomsday." 3 typescript drafts and 3
carbons. Feb. 21, 1953.
1 of the typescript drafts and 1 of the carbons for English
347b.
"The Dream." Typescript with holograph
changes; 1 typescript carbon. n.d.
"Dream with Clam Diggers." Typescript.
n.d.
"The Dying Witch Addresses Her Young
Apprentice." Typescript. n.d.
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Folder 11
E-F
"The earth had wilted in the heat" [first line].
Typescript. May 20,
1947.
"Earthbound." Typescript. 1948.
"Elegy." Typescript carbon with holograph
changes. n.d.
"Elizabeth in April." 2 typescript drafts.
1950.
"Enchantment." 1 holograph and 1
typescript draft. June 11,
1945. Holograph draft untitled.
"Ennui." Typescript and carbon. n.d.
"Ennui." Typescript carbon. n.d. [Not
same poem as above.]
"Epitaph for Fire and Flower." Typescript.
n.d. 2 p.
"Epitaph in Three Parts." Typescript with
holograph changes. n.d.
"Eve Describes Her Birthday Party." 2
typescript drafts, 1 marked out; 1 typescript carbon with
holograph changes. n.d. [See also To the Boy Inscrutable as
God]
"Family Reunion." Typescript and carbon.
1950.
"The Farewell." Typescript. 1948.
"Female Author." Typescript. n.d.
"Finality." Typescript. [ca. 1947].
"Fire and Frost." Typescript. n.d.
"Fireside Reveries." Typescript. n.d.
"Fog." 4 typescript drafts: 1 with the
pseudonym Sandra Peters. 1948.
"Full Fathom Five." Typescript carbon.
n.d. 2 p.
Box 7
Folder 12
G-I
"Go Get the Goodly Squab." 2 typescript
drafts and 2 carbons: 1 carbon with the pseudonym Sandra Peters.
n.d.
"gone is the river." Typescript. n.d.
"The Grackles." 2 typescript drafts and 1
carbon. 1948.
"Harlequin Love Song." 3 typescript
drafts: 1 with holograph changes; 1 typescript carbon with
holograph changes. n.d.
"Have You Forgotten?" Typescript carbon.
1948. ["P.N." in
holograph under title; also holograph note "P.N. - Perry Norton
- boyfriend."]
"housewife." Typescript. n.d.
"Humoresque." 2 typescript drafts.
1949.
"humpty-dumpty." Typescript. n.d.
"I Am an American." Typescript. n.d.
"I do what you wish, but without abandoning the desire"
[first line]. Typescript. n.d.
"I Have Found the Perfect World."
Typescript. 1948.
"I put my fingers in my ears" [first line]. Typescript.
1949.
"I Reach Out." Typescript. 1948.
"I thought that I could not be hurt." 4
typescript drafts: 2 with holograph changes, 2 drafts untitled,
1 draft carries title: "May 30, 1947." May 30, 1947. [Included is
note by Aurelia Plath giving background to the
poem.]
"Ice Age." Typescript carbon. n.d.
"Ice Age." Typescript. n.d. [Not
same poem as above.]
"In Memoriam." Typescript. n.d.
"In Passing." 2 typescript drafts: 1 with
pseudonym Sandra Peters. 1949.
"Incident." Typescript carbon. n.d.
"Insolent Storm Strikes at the Skull."
Typescript carbon. n.d.
"Interlude." 2 typescript drafts: 1
carries title: "May." May,
1947.
Folder 12
"The Invalid." 3 typescript drafts: 1 with
holograph corrections, 1 with instructor's comments. 1950.
"Item: Stolen, One Suitcase." Typescript.
n.d.
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Folder 13
J-M
"Jilted." 3 typescript drafts. 1952.
"Joy." Typescript. Apr. 16, 1948. [Appended is
typescript of The Ideal.]
"Lament." Typescript. n.d. [See
also Dirge]
"Let the Rain Fall Gently." 3 typescript
drafts: 2 with holograph changes. 1948.
"Lonely Song." 2 typescript drafts: 1 with
the pseudonym Sandra Peters. 1949.
"Love Is a Parallax." Typescript carbon.
n.d. 2 p.
"Mad Girl's Love Song." 2 typescript
drafts and 1 carbon. Feb. 21,
1953. [Carbon has typescript note.]
"March 15 Muse." Typescript. n.d.
"March 21." Typescript. n.d.
"marcia." 2 typescript drafts. n.d. 3 p. and
4 p.
"Metamorphoses of the Moon." Typescript
carbon. n.d.
"Midnight Snow." Typescript. 1950.
"Mid-summer Mobile." Typescript and
carbon. n.d. [Typescript titled: "Suspend This
Day."]
"The Mistake." Typescript carbon with
holograph corrections. Mar. 4,
1948. 3 p.
"Moonsong at Morning." Typescript carbon.
n.d.
"Morning in the Hospital Solarium." 2
typescript drafts. n.d.
"Motherly Love." Typescript. 1940.
"Mussel-Hunter at Rock Harbor." Typescript
carbon. June, 1958 . 2
p.
Box 8
Folder 1
N-O
"Neither Moonlight Nor Starlight."
Typescript. n.d.
"Never Try to Know More Than You Should."
2 typescript carbons. n.d.
"Never Try to Trick Me with a Kiss."
Typescript with holograph changes and carbon. n.d.
"neveryou." Typescript. n.d.
"New England library." 2 typescript
carbons. May,
1947.
"New England Winter without Snow." 2
typescript drafts: 1 with holograph changes. n.d.
"Night Walk." Typescript carbon. n.d.
"Not Here." Typescript. n.d.
[Appended is typescript of "Kitchen Interlude."]
"Notes on Zarathustra's Prologue." 2
typescript drafts: 1 with holograph change, 1
typescript
carbon with holograph changes. n.d.
"Notes to a Neophyte. Typescript carbon.
n.d.
"Obsession." Typescript. 1948.
"Ode on a Bitten Plum." 2 typescript
drafts. 1949.
"On Looking into the Eyes of a Demon
Lover." Typescript carbon, holograph corrections.
n.d.
"On the Decline of Oracles." Typescript
carbon. n.d. 2 p.
"On the Difficulty of Conjuring Up a
Dryad." Typescript. n.d. 2 p.
"On the Futility of a Lexicon." Typescript
carbon. n.d.
"On the Plethora of Dryads." Typescript.
n.d. 2 p.
Box 8
Folder 2
P-R
"P. N." Typescript. 1948.
"Pagan Song." Typescript. n.d.
"Paradox." 2 typescript drafts. n.d.
"Parallax." Typescript. n.d.
"Patience." Typescript. 1948.
"Persecuted." Typescript and carbon.
Apr. 17,
1948.
"Perseus: The Triumph of Wit over
Suffering." Typescript carbon. n.d.
"Portrait." Typescript. 1948.
"Portrait D'une Jeune Fille." Typescript
carbon. n.d.
"Prologue to Spring." Typescript with
holograph change and 2 carbons. n.d.
"Pursuit." Typescript. n.d. 2
p.
"Question." Typescript. 1949.
"Rain." Typescript carbon. n.d.
"Recognition." Typescript. 1948.
"Reflection." Typescript. 1948.
"Reverie." Typescript and carbon.
Nov. 1947. [Typescript
originally titled:"Nostalgia."]
"Riddle." 2 typescripts drafts. 1948.
"rondeau." 2 typescript drafts: 1 with
holograph changes. n.d.
"Rondeau Redoublé." 2 typescript drafts.
n.d.
Box 8
Folder 3
S
"The Scullion's Dream." 2 typescript
drafts, 1 titled "Triolet Frivole." n.d.
"Sea Symphony." Typescript carbon, for 3
English 7. n.d.
"Second Winter." Typescript carbon.
n.d.
"Seek No More the Young." Typescript with
holograph changes and carbon. Mar.
11, 1949. [Typescript titled "Latvian Threnody
(or) Lament."]
"The Sleepers." Typescript with holograph
corrections. n.d.
"Slow, slow, the rhythm of the moon" [first line]. 2
typescript drafts. 1950.
"Snakecharmer." 2 typescript drafts.
[ca. 1958].
"The Snowman on the Moor." Typescript.
n.d. 2 p.
"Solo." Typescript. n.d.
"Song." Typescript. n.d. [See
also Triolet Frivole]
"Song for a Thaw." Typescript with
holograph changes and carbon. n.d.
"Song of a Superfluous Spring."
Typescript, with the pseudonym Sandra Peters. n.d.
"Song of Eve." Typescript carbon.
n.d.
"Song of the Daydreamer." 2 typescript
drafts and 1 carbon. 1948.
"Sonnet for a Green-eyed Sailor."
Typescript carbon. n.d.
"Sonnet: The Suitcases are Packed Again."
2 typescript drafts: 1 with holograph changes. 1954. 1 draft titled: A Peripatetic
Sonnet (by a Peripatetic Smith Girl).
"Sonnet to a Shade." Typescript carbon.
n.d.
"Sonnet to Satan." Typescript carbon.
n.d.
"A Sorcerer Bids Farewell to Seem." 2
typescript carbons: 1 with holograph change. n.d.
"Sorrow." Typescript. 1947.
"Spinning Song." Typescript with the
pseudonym Sandra Peters. n.d.
"Spring Again." Typescript with the
holograph change and carbon. 1948.
"Spring Sacrament." Typescript with
holograph change and carbon. n.d. [See also April
Aubade]
"Spring Song to a Housewife." Typescript.
n.d.
"The Stoic." Typescript. n.d.
"The Stranger." Typescript. 1947.
"The stream, from a subterranean" [first line].
Typescript. Nov.
1947.
"Summer Street." Typescript. 1948.
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Folder 4
T
"Temper of Time." 2 typescript drafts and
1 carbon with holograph change.
"Terminal." Typescript. n.d.
"Thy Kingdom Come." Typescript carbon.
n.d. 3 p.
"To a Dissembling Spring." 4 typescript
drafts: 1 with holograph change, 1 with instructor's comments.
[ca. 1953]
"To a Jilted Lover." Typescript carbon.
n.d. [See also Apotheosis]
"To Ariadne; (Deserted by Theseus)."
Typescript carbon. June 10,
1949.
"To Eva." 3 typescript drafts: 1 with
instructor's comments. n.d.
"To Eva Descending the Stair." Typescript
and carbon. Feb. 20,
1953.
"To the Boy Inscrutable as God."
Typescript carbon with holograph notes. [See also Eve Describes
Her Birthday Party]
"To Time." Typescript with instructor's
comments. n.d.
"Torch Song." Typescript. n.d.
"The Traveller." Typescript carbon with
holograph change. Mar. 27,
1948.
"The Trial of Man." 2 typescript drafts: 1
with holograph change. n.d.
"Triolet Frivole." Typescript. n.d. [See
also Song]
"Tulips at Dawn." Typescript with
holograph correction. 1948. 2
p.
"Twilight." 2 typescript drafts. n.d.
"Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real
Sea." Typescript carbon. n.d.
Box 8
Folder 5
U-Z
"Valentine; lines to a Rich Bachelor."
Typescript. n.d.
"Van Winkle's Village." 3 typescript
drafts: 2 with holograph changes and 1 with holograph note; 1
typescript carbon. n.d.
"Verbal Calisthenics." 3 typescript
drafts. n.d.
"Virus TV or (We Don't Have a Set
Either)." 2 typescript drafts. n.d.
"Voices." 3 typescript drafts: 1 with
holograph changes, 1 untitled. n.d.
"Wallflower." Typescript and carbon.
[ca. 1949]
"Wayfaring at the Whitney; A Study in Sculptural
Dimensions." Typescript carbon with holograph
changes. n.d. 2 p.
"Wellfleet Beach Plums." Typescript.
n.d.
"When the Stars Are Pale and Cool."
Typescript. n.d.
"White Girl between Yellow Curtains."
Typescript carbon. n.d.
"White Phlox." 2 typescript drafts.
n.d.
"Wild Geese." 2 typescript drafts, 1
titled "Song of the Wild Geese." 1948.
"A Winter Sunset." Typescript and carbon
with illustration. Jan. 16,
1946. [On verso of carbon is note from Plath to
her grandfather.]
"Winter Words." 2 typescript drafts: 1
with holograph changes; 1 carbon with holograph changes.
n.d. 1 p., 2 p., 2 p.
"Words of Advice to an English Prof."
Typescript. n.d.
"Wreath for a Bridal." Typescript.
n.d.
"Yadwigha, on a Red Couch, Among lilies; A Sestina
for the Douanier." Typescript carbon. [ca. 1958]
"Youth." Typescript carbon. Oct. 1947. 2 p. [See also Alone
and Alone in the Woods Was I.]
"Youth's Appeal for Peace." Typescript
carbon. Mar. 27, 1948.
3 p.
"Zeitgeist at the Zoo." Typescript.
[ca. 1956]
Box 8
Folder 6
Sylvia's Scrapbook
A typescript collection of early poems, many of them illustrated with
cut-pictures. The contents are as follows:
"The Scarlet Beacon."
1946.
"April."
May 1947.
"Enchantment."
1945.
"April Blossoms."
1943.
"In the Corner of My Garden."
1944.
"A Golden Afternoon."
1946.
"Dreams."
1945.
"A Wish Upon a Star."
1944.
"A Winter Sunset."
1946.
"Silver Thread."
1946.
"I thought that I could not be hurt" [first line].
May 30,
1947.
"Fireside Reveries."
1947.
"The earth had wilted in the heat" [first line].
May 1947.
"In Memoriam." Oct. 1946.
"Steely-Blue Crags."
May 1947.
"Why must the slim spring rains fall now" [first line].
n.d.
"New England library."
May 1947.
"Sea Symphony."
1946.
"Autumn Portrait."
n.d.
Prose poem.
"The Snowflake Star."
1944.
"May."
May 1947.
"October."
Oct. 1946.
"Camp Helen Storrow."
1945.
"Mornings of Mist."
1946.
"The Fairy Scarf."
1945.
"March."
1945.
"Pearls of Dew" (Chant). 1940.
Box 8
Folder 7
"Circus in Three Rings"
Typescript. 47 p. With the pseudonym Marcia Moore. Submitted to
Borestone Poetry Awards for Book-length class 3. Contents:
[i] To My Favorite Maestro Alfred Young
Fisher
[ii] Acknowledgments
[iii] Contents
I. "Green as a melon our sweet world was"
2. "Song of Eve. 1 p.
3. "Wayfaring at the Whitney: A Study in
Sculptural Dimensions. 2 p.
5. "Black Pine Tree in an Orange light. 1
p.
6. "Go Get the Goodly Squab". 1 p.
7. "Winter Words." 2 p.
9. "Prologue to Spring." 1 p.
10. "Apparel for April." 1 p.
11. "April Aubade." 1 p. [See also Spring
Sacrament]
II. "My extravagant heart blows up again"
13. "Circus in Three Rings." 1
p.
14. "On Looking into the Eyes of a Demon
Lover." 1 p.
15. "The Dream." 1 p.
16. "Trio of Love Songs." 2 p.
18. "Love is a Parallax." 3 p.
21. "Moonsong at Morning." 2
p.
23. "Rondeau Redoublé." 1 p.
24. "Second Winter." 1 p.
25. "Apotheosis." 1 p. [See also To a
Jilted Lover]
26. "Mad Girl's Love Song." 1
p.
27. "Desert Song." 1 p.
III. "Circling zodiac compels the year"
29. "To Eva Descending the Stair." 1
p.
30. "Metamorphoses of the Moon." 2
p.
32. "The Princess and Goblins." 3
p.
35. "Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real
Sea." 1 p.
36. "Temper of Time." 1 p.
37. "Epitaph in Three Parts." 2
p.
39. "Ice Age." 2 p.
41. "Elegy." 1 p.
42. "Lament." 1 p. [See also
Dirge]
43. "Danse Macabre." 1 p.
44. "Doomsday." 1 p.
Box 8
Folder 8
"The Colossus;" and other poems
Typescript. 91 p. Submitted to the Yale Series of Younger Poets.
Included is rejection letter. Contents:
"The Manor Garden." 1 p.
"Two Views of a Cadaver Room." 1
p.
"Night Shift." 1 p.
"Sow." 2 p.
"The Eye-Mote." 2 p.
"Hardcastle Crags." 2 p.
"Faun." 1 p. [See also
Metamorphosis]
"Departure." 1 p.
"The Colossus." 2 p.
"Lorelei." 2 p.
"Point Shirley." 2 p.
"Owl." 1 p.
"All the Dead Dears." 2 p.
"The Bull of Bendylaw." 1 p.
"Aftermath." 1p.
"The Thin People." 3 p.
"Suicide Off Egg Rock." 1 p.
"Mushrooms." 2 p.
"I Want, I Want." 1 p.
"The Beggars." 1 p.
"Watercolors of Grantchester Meadows." 2
p.
"The Ghost's Leavetaking." 2
p.
"Metaphors." 1 p.
"Black Rook in Rainy Weather." 2
p.
"A Winter Ship." 2 p.
"Full Fathom Five." 2 p.
"Maudlin." 1 p.
"Blue Moles." 2 p.
"Strumpet Song." 1 p.
"Ouija." 2 p.
"Man in Black." 1 p.
"Snakecharmer." 2 p.
"The Hermit at Outermost House." 1
p.
"The Disquieting Muses." 3 p.
"Medallion." 2 p.
"Two Sisters of Persephone." 2
p.
"The Companionable Ills." 1 p.
"Moonrise." 1 p.
"Ella Mason and Her Eleven Cats." 2
p.
"Frog Autumn." 1 p.
"Mussel Hunter at Rock Harbor." 4
p.
"The Beekeeper's Daughter." 1
p.
"The Times Are Tidy." 1 p.
"Spinster." 2 p.
"The Burnt-out Spa." 2 p.
"Sculptor." 1 p.
"Poem for a Birthday"
"1. Who." 2 p.
"2. Dark House." 2 p.
"3. Maenad." 2 p.
"4. The Beast." 1 p.
"5. Flute Notes from A Reedy Pond." 1
p.
"6. Witch Burning." 1 p.
"7. The Stones." 2 p.
Box 8
Folder 9
Poetry by Ted Hughes
"Many a weary weary day" [first line]. Holograph.
n.d.
"Pike." Typescript carbon. [ca. 1958]
"Thistles." Typescript with holograph
notes. n.d.