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For the first time, private correspondence between former Poet Laureate Ted Hughes and his long-time creative partner, the renowned American artist and printer Leonard Baskin is being made available to scholars and researchers through the acquisition of Baskin's Hughes Archive by the British Library. This important archive of over 450 items offers a unique insight into the relationship between the poet and the artist throughout their forty-year association from 1958 to 1998, the year of Hughes' death. In addition to personal correspondence, the archive contains handwritten and typescript copies of poems with numerous annotations, preparatory materials including drawings, galley proofs, typescripts and manuscripts for Crow, Cave Birds, Season Songs, Flowers and Insects and The Hanged Man and the Dragonfly as well as for a number of Gehenna Press books, Primer of Birds, Capriccio, and Howls and Whispers. The manuscripts of Hughes' short stories and re-writings of Greek drama, including Seneca's Oedipus, are also part of the collection.