Series: I. Correspondence  

Subseries: Colleagues, Friends, and Family  

Scope Note: Consult the Manuscripts Index in the Library for dates of letters of individual correspondents. Only a select number of correspondents have been indexed. Arranged chronologically.

1777-1933 

1934-1945 

1946-1953 

1954-1964, Oct. 

1964, Nov.-1969, Sept. 

1969, Oct.-1975, June 

1975, July-1981 

Subseries: BBC, Publishers and Agents  

Scope Note: Includes some contracts and royalty payment statements as enclosures. Arranged alphabetically.

A.M. Heath & Co. Ltd., 1931-1975  

British Broadcasting Corp.,  

1925-1972   

1973-1977 

Chatto and Windus, 1924-1977   

Curtis Brown Ltd., 1923-1951   

David Higham Associates, Ltd.,  

1958-1965   

1966-1979 

Harper & Brothers, 1926-1962   

Harper & Row, 1963-1975   

Pearn, Pollinger & Higham, 1936-1958   

Series: II. Writings  

Scope Note: 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  

Scope Note: Arranged alphabetically by title, one folder for each title, unless otherwise indicated.

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

The human predicament (novel), vol. 2: The wooden shepherdess, Book 1.  (29 folders)

The human predicament (novel), vol. 2: The wooden shepherdess, Book 1.  (31 folders)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Pericolo

(see: Danger)

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)

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: Introductions

Scope Note: Includes introductions written by Hughes for the following books:

The Dark Valley Travellers, by Peter Haining  

Deudraeth Rural District Official Guide  

Edward Wolfe, a retrospective exhibition of paintings & drawings , Arts Council 1967  

Escape to the Sea, by Fred Rebell.

(Introduction and edited by Hughes)

John Hope - an exhibition catalog  

The King's Falcon and Other Tales, by Leo Tolstoy  

The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner  

The Venturesome Voyages of Captain Voss, by John Claus Voss  

Subseries: Poetry  (19 folders)

Scope Note: Includes individual poems arranged alphabetically, drafts and other materials pertaining to his two books of poetry: Confessio Juvenis and Gipsy-Night and Other Poems. Six notebooks of poetry complete this section

Subseries: Reviews of books and plays  

Scope Note: Arranged alphabetically by title of review, or, where lacking, by title of book:

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: Speeches  

1931, Aug. 5  Nationalism and literature.

Cymmrodorion Society during National Eisteddfod, Bangor

1932,  Beyond common sense.

Three Ballard Mathews lectures, University of North Wales

1933, Mar. 22  Wales and the theatre.

Cardiff

1934, Feb. 17  Drama in Wales: Its Present and Future.

Cardiff

1935, Oct. 26  Nationalism and art in Wales.

Workers' Educational Association at Dynevor Secondary School, Swansea

1936, July 17  Opening of Carmarthenshire Art Club exhibition.  

1949, Nov.  General criticism of Othello.

Aberystwyth University

1951, Oct. 31  Blackburne House Prizegiving, Liverpool Institute High School for Girls  

1954, Nov. 1-4  The cuckoo's egg.  (4 folders)

Gresham College lectures

1954  Anglo-Welsh literature, general review.

Coleg Harlech Summer School

1954-1956  Lectures on rhetoric.  (2 folders)

Gresham College

1955, Mar. 7-10  "Poetic" and "Rhetoric": Two kinds of meaning.

Gresham College

1955, May 23-26  Emotion and the reader.

Gresham College

1955, Oct. 24-27  The novel behind your eyes.

Gresham College

1956, Mar. 5-8  The tale of Genji.

Gresham College

1956, June 11-14  The moving hand, or the problem of meaning.

Gresham College

1956, Nov. 24  The moving hand, or the problem of meaning.

Cambridge, Westcott House

1956, Nov. 28  The cuckoo's egg.

Oxford University English Club

1962  Liturgical language today.

Clergy School for the Dioceses of St. Asaph and Bangor

1969  Fiction as truth.

Blashfield address

1971  Fiction. Bangor annual meeting  

1972, June 29  The social importance of fiction.

Harlech Society

1973, Sept. 1  The novel.

Academi Gymraeg

1974, Mar. 11 Wales as a writer's habitat.

University College of North Wales, Bangor

1975, Apr. 9  Foyles literary luncheon.

London

n.d., Heracles and the hydra  

n.d., Mahomet for merrie England  

n.d., Science and the humanities in education - 5  

n.d., Technique of poetry  

Miscellaneous speech-related items: notes, programs, etc.  

Subseries: Miscellaneous writings by Hughes

Drafts of unfinished books, plays, short stories, suggestions for films and plays (12 folders)  

Notebooks of ideas (10 notebooks)

Subseries: Writings by others  

Scope Note: Arranged alphabetically by author:

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  

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  

Series: III. Miscellaneous

Scope Note: Biographical materials are followed by alphabetically arranged subjects, reel-to-reel audio tapes, bound calendars, oversize materials and index cards. Many of the subjects were taken from the original folders. One folder for each subject, unless otherwise indicated.

Biographical - Contains biographical sketches of Hughes, some written for various biographical sources (5 folders) (see also: Box 42)  

Address books (3)  

Arabic language  

Artwork by Pamela Bianco and various other artists  (2 folders)

Automobiles -  (3 folders)

insurance and repair receipts, licenses, registrations, etc.

Boats and sailing -   (8 folders)

Contains materials pertaining to: boating and sailing organizations, receipts and repair records for boats owned by Hughes, the Laugharne Regatta, perpetual tide predictor invented by Hughes, etc.

Boats and sailing, cont. (16 folders)

"Bomb sights from aeroplane, 1915 and experiments in four dimensional perspective"  

Book plates and calling cards  

British Broadcasting Company  

Civil Defence -

Contains correspondence and printed materials concerning Hughes's civilian role during World War II

Diaries -

Loose leaf diaries and itineraries

Education -   (6 folders)

Grade reports, notebooks, magazines, Brome Literary Society materials, etc. Arranged alphabetically by institution: Caterham Preparatory School, Charterhouse (see also: Box 42), Eothen, Oriel College, Oxford University; includes materials concerning Hon. D. Litt. from the University of Wales, 1956

Education, cont. (5 folders)

Family - Contains writings, legal documents, etc. for the following family members:  

Hughes, Arthur  (2 folders)

Hughes, Frances (Bazley)  

Hughes, Louise Grace Warren   (12 folders)

Warren, Edward Charles  

Warren, Ernest Edward  (2 folders)

Hughes's children  

In addition, there are genealogical materials and a folder with locks of hair  (2 folders; see also: Box 42)

Family, cont. - Writings, notebooks and miscellaneous items  (7 folders)

Financial -   (14 folders)

Bank statements, income tax papers, insurance papers, receipts, VAT papers, etc.

Financial, cont. (9 folders)

The Hill Players -

copies of blank stationery only

Investiture of HRH Prince of Wales  

Invitations from Hughes -

printed invitations for parties, supper and exhibition openings for Frances Hughes

Invitations to Hughes -   (2 folders)

Mostly printed invitations for parties, dinners, marriages and various celebrations. Also includes invitations to an afternoon party at Buckingham Palace and to the inauguration of Herbert Hoover

Juvenilia -

Account books for expenditures from ages 6-13 and ages 15-19; 2 Christmas cards; "Dick's riddle" written Feb. 15, 1908; "Home" written " Xmas 1910"; list of "Books read by "Dick from Xmas 1910-Xmas 1912"

McEntee, Lucy -

various recollections of Hughes by his secretary

Medical -

Material concerning Frances's appendix and notes pertaining to Richard's final illness

Men of Achievement award  

Military -

Mostly documents concerning Hughes's military career

Music  

North Wales Hydro-electric Development -   (4 folders)

Correspondence, printed materials, etc. pertaining to the opposition of hydro-electric development in Wales, including Hughes's article entitled: "Dryland"

Publishers -  (12 folders)

Mostly royalty statements and contracts

Ration books  

Real estate -   (19 folders; see also: Boxes 42 and 43)

includes correspondence, floor plans and other materials concerning leasing and renovations of Laugharne Castle, Mor Edrin, and other residences

Real estate, cont. (7 folders)

Richard Hughes (Books) Inc. -   (7 folders)

Contracts, certificate of incorporation, minutes of meetings, shares, statements of accounts, etc.

Societies -   (1 folder each)

Correspondence, printed materials, etc. relating to the following societies, associations, clubs, etc. :

Authors' League of America  

Beefsteak Club  

The Cambrian Archeological Association  

The Council for the Preservation of Rural Wales  

Diocesan Registry  

Garrick Club  

Harlech Horticultural Produce Society  

Merioneth Rural Community Council  

The New Atlantis  

The North Wales Association of Sheep Dog Trials  

P.E.N.  

Portmadoc Players  

The Society of Authors  

United University Club  

Welsh Arts Council

The Welsh National Theatre  (2 folders)

Yr Academi Gymraeg  

Tobacco -

Correspondence and receipts

Travel - 1928-1975  (23 folders)

Correspondence, brochures, receipts and other materials relating to Hughes's trips. Arranged chronologically

Treorchy Drama competition -   (2 folders)

Materials relating to Hughes's adjudication of the 1934 and 1949 competitions

Wine -

Mostly correspondence and receipts

Miscellany -   (6 folders)

Scrapbook on Matabelaland, notebooks, printed material, etc.

Audio tapes (8):

BBC interview  

Richard Hughes and Tim Maby, "Sunday Best" Radio 4, Wales Apr. 29, 1973   

Richard Hughes and Walter Allen, Radio 3, Apr. 5, 1973   

Interview at Talsarnau with Mr. & Mrs. Richard Hughes by Colin D. Edwards with Constantine FitzGibbon, Spring 1964   

Joyce Emerson interview with Richard Hughes for C.B.C.  

Interview in Dar Es Salaam, Book Week, Mar. 1967 ;

Danger; Possibly another interview in Nairobi

Stories for children: The Spider's Palace, Telephone Travel, The Elephant's Picnic  

Stories for children: Living in Whales, Don't Blame Me, The Palace on the Rocks  

Calendars -  

1921-1922   

1924   

1927   

1929-1932  (1 each)  

1938   

1939  (2)  

1940   

1942   

1944   

1945 

(see: Box 42)

1946   

1950  (2)  

1953  (2)  

1954-1958  (1 each)  

1959  (2)  

1960  (2)  

1961  (3)  

Calendars - (cont.)

1962  (2)  

1963-1965  (1 each)  

1966  (2)  

1967  (3)  

1968  (3)  

1969  (4)  

1970-1975  (3 each)  

1976  (2)  

Calendars for Frances (Bazley) Hughes 1951 , 1956 , 1965   

Calendar for Capt. Pengelley - 1894   

Calendar, 1945 

Charterhouse, Calling Over, Dec. 22, 1913 

(i.e. list of students)

Hughes genealogical chart  

Program for The Marquis of Anglesey's Company's production of "Aladdin"  

Architectural plans -

boathouse and unidentified residences (5)

Engraving of Laugharne Castle

Architectural plans for Laugharne (14)  

Index Cards

Scope Note: Index to some of the correspondence; various story ideas and miscellaneous information from the 1920s.

Series: IV. Photographs  

Scope Note: Includes family, friends and unidentified persons followed by pictures depicting travels, Hughes's residences, stills from plays, scenery, etc.

Hughes, Richard  (23 photographs)

Hughes, Richard with wife, Frances and children  (6 photographs)

Parent and siblings  (21 photographs)

Bianco, Pamela, her mother and family   (15 photographs)

Family and friends  (29 photographs)

Unidentified persons   (90 photographs in 4 folders)

Capodistria   (43 photographs, 5 postcards)

Central Europe, Zagreb, Politics, 1922    (36 photographs, 3 postcards)

"Dauntless" - one of Hughes's boats with Dylan Thomas's home in background   (1 photograph)

Morocco  (91 photographs)

Plays.   (14 photographs)

Scenes from various plays: A Comedy of Good and Evil; The Portmadoc Players; unidentified play with Hughes in cast

Quebec and Lake St. John, 1924     (18 photographs)

Residences -   (20 photographs)

Stiffkey, Garreg Fawr, Mor Edrin, Laugharne Castle

Sicily   (30 photographs)

Steerage to U.S.A., S.S. Saxonia, 1921     (39 photographs)

Miscellaneous -   (91 photographs in 5 folders)

Interior and exterior shots of various buildings, scenery

Series: V. Clippings  

By Hughes:

Articles  (4 folders)

Book reviews  (2 folders)

Letters to the editor  

Poetry  

Short stories  

Scrapbook of various writings  

About Hughes, 1921-1975     (5 folders)

Reviews of major works by Hughes, arranged alphabetically by title of work: A - A High Wind in Jamaica   (17 folders)

Reviews of major works... A High Wind in Jamaica (cont.) - Z  (30 folders)

Reviews of broadcasts by Hughes  

Reviews of works with forewords, introductions and contributions by Hughes  

Reviews of plays by Hughes  

Miscellaneous clippings