Sylvia Plath collection, 1940-1981
The collection contains approximately 4,000 pages of Plath's manuscripts and typescripts. This includes a group of 67 poems in successive drafts that are known as the Ariel poems; drafts of early poems, some with notes by Smith College professor Alfred Young Fisher; typescripts of The bell jar; and articles, broadcasts, reviews, and short stories. There are her journals (1950-1962), artwork, and correspondence. Correspondence includes letters to and/or from Al Alvarez, Dorothy Schober Benotti, Ruth Barnhouse, Ruth Fainlight, Ann Davidow Goodman Hayes, Elinor Friedman Klein, Philip Emerald McCurdy, Enid Epstein Mark, James Michie, Marianne Moore, Howard Moss, Hans-Joachim Neupert, Aurelia Schober Plath, Otto Emil Plath, Olive Higgins Prouty, G. Jon Rosenthal, Stevie Smith, Marcia Brown Stern, and other friends, publishers, and editors. There also is memorabilia from childhood, school, and adult life. Included in the realia is her English elm writing board, furniture she painted, and her typewriter
Archival Material, English, 1940