Sylvia Plath typed letter signed to parents-in-law, 'We'll be writing like fury'

Description: Sylvia Plath, typed and signed letter to her parents-in-law Edith and William Hughes, commencing: 'Dear Ted's mother & dad, Just thought I'd snatch a minute to slip in this little note while Ted was writing the last of his business letters…'. Plath muses vibrantly on her summer existence with Ted in a cottage on Cape Cod in July 1957, brimming with optimism and determination ('We'll be writing like fury') and gushing about Hughes future as a poet: 'Ted's book, I am sure, will be a bestseller here for poetry books! Magazines like the slick elegant New Yorker are clustering around buying a poem here, a poem there…'. Both poets were productive during their sojourn on Cape Cod between July and August 1957, Hughes working on the poems that would form Lupercal (1960) and Plath working on several stories, one of which ('The Trouble-Making Mother') sowed the first seeds of the story that would become The Bell Jar (1963). An event on Cape Cod that Plath records in her notebook provided the inspiration for her poem Mussel Hunter at Rock Harbor (1958), her first poem to be published by the New Yorker. Plath also started the verse-dialogue Dialogue over a Ouija Board , published by Rainbow Press (1981) and also in the Notes on Poems 1957 in Collected Poems (Faber, 1981). 1 page, 8vo (174 x 138mm), blue paper. Written in Eastham, MA, 22 July 1957. Provenance: from Frieda Hughes (daughter of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes).

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