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Your Own Sylvia: Sylvia Plath’s letters to Ted Hughes and other items, property of Frieda Hughes
9 July - 21 July 2021 • London
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1 Sylvia Plath--Eric Stahlberg
2 Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes | Pair of gold wedding rings
3 Egyptian-style glazed amulet of the Horus Falcon, circa early 20th century | Given by Hughes to Plath
4 Sylvia Plath | Pen and ink portrait of Ted Hughes, [1956]
5 Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes | Collection of six photographs with the Hughes family in Yorkshire, September 1956
6 Sylva Plath | Typed letter signed, to Ted Hughes, "something wonderful and incredible has happened", 1 October 1956
7 Sylvia Plath | Typed letter signed, to Ted Hughes, on her love for him and Cambridge life, 3 October 1956
8 Sylvia Plath | Typed letter signed, to Ted Hughes, with her poem 'Monologue at 3am', 4 October 1956
9 Sylvia Plath | Typed letter signed, to Ted Hughes, on "my own private doctrine", with a poem, 5 October 1956
10 Sylvia Plath | Typed letter signed, to Ted Hughes, discussing their poetry, 6 October 1956
11 Sylvia Plath | Typed letter signed, to Ted Hughes, on her love of drawing, 7-8 October 1956
12 Sylvia Plath | Typed letter signed, to Ted Hughes, on her latest stories and loneliness, 9 October 1956
13 Sylvia Plath | Typed letter signed, to Ted Hughes, "we will burn love to death all our long lives", 10 October 1956
14 Sylvia Plath | Typed letter signed, to Ted Hughes, "off and on have had the strangest dreams", 16 October 1956
15 Sylvia Plath | Typed letter signed, to Ted Hughes, on her study of the tarot and Cambridge life, 17 October 1956
16 Sylvia Plath | Typed letter signed, to Ted Hughes, on her studies and Hughes's fables, 18 October 1956
17 Sylvia Plath | Typed letter signed, to Ted Hughes, "your voice is like the spirit of god on the waters", 19 October 1956
18 Sylvia Plath | Typed letter signed, to Ted Hughes, on madness and art, and the literary scene, 20 October 1956
19 Sylvia Plath | Typed letter signed, to Ted Hughes, "I keep saying to myself: I am married", 21 October 1956
20 Sylvia Plath | Autograph letter signed, to Ted Hughes, "it is simple a sin not to live with you", 21 October 1956
21 Sylvia Plath | Typed letter signed, to Ted Hughes, "I had the queerest dreams last night", 22 October 1956
22 Tarot de Marseille | Deck of cards owned by Sylvia Plath
23 Sylvia Plath | Autograph letter signed, to Edith & William Hughes, on admitting her marriage, 12 November 1956
24 Sylvia Plath | Autograph letter signed, to Edith and William Hughes, [10 December 1956]
25 Sylvia Plath | Autograph letter signed, to Edith & William Hughes, "now ... his first BOOK", 27 February 1957
26 Sylvia Plath | Autograph letter signed, to Edith & William Hughes, "daydreaming about the moors", [c.5 May 1957]
27 Sylvia Plath | Autograph letter signed, to Edith and William Hughes, sailing to America, [20 June 1957]
28 Sylvia Plath | Typed letter signed, to Edith and William Hughes, "we'll be writing like fury", [22 July 1957]
29 Sylvia Plath | Typed letter signed, to Edith & William Hughes, on life in America, 2 February 1958
30 Sylvia Plath | Autograph letter signed, to Edith and William Hughes, "hoping to finish a book of poems", 28 April 1958
31 Sylvia Plath | Autograph letter signed, to Edith & William Hughes, on meeting a groundhog, 1 July 1958
32 Sylvia Plath | Autograph letter signed, to Edith & William Hughes, on their life in Boston, September 1958
33 Sylvia Plath | Autograph letter signed, to Edith & William Hughes, on Ted Hughes as a wolf-man, 30 December 1958
34 Sylvia Plath | Autograph letter signed, to Edith & William Hughes, visiting "the town of my childhood", 17 January 1959
35 Sylvia Plath | Typed letter signed, to Edith & William Hughes, on the 3rd anniversary of their meeting, 26 February 1959
36 Sylvia Plath | Typed letter signed, to Edith & William Hughes, on their latest publications, 31 March 1959
37 Sylvia Plath | Typed letter signed, to Edith & William Hughes, "the prospect of driving to California", 24 May 1959
38 Frieda Plath--Hymnal | German hymnal, 1907
39 Sylvia Plath | Autograph postcard signed, to Edith & William Hughes, from California, 3 August 1959
40 Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath | Joint autograph letter signed, to William and Edith Hughes, March 1960
41 Sylvia Plath | Collection of 39 family photographs annotated by her, 1960-62
42 Sylvia Plath | Autograph letter signed, to Edith Hughes, recuperating in hospital, 6 March [1961]
43 Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes | photographic portrait by David Bailey, inscribed by Plath, 1961, and another press photo
44 Sylvia Plath | Pencil sketch entitled "Great Faux Pas"
45 Sylvia Plath | Collection of recipes and a rolling pin
46 Sylvia Plath | Three household objects formerly belonging to her
47 Lacquer chopsticks | Given to Sylvia Plath by Ted Hughes
48 Homer | The Iliad, trans. Lattimore, with illustrations by Leonard Baskin, 1962, inscribed by Baskin to "Sylvia &Ted"