Autograph diary entries and notebooks containing research notes, personal reflections, accounts of daily life, names and addresses dating throughout Hughes's life from the mid 1950s.
Diaries and Notebooks
This material is held atBritish Library Manuscript Collections
- Reference
- GB 58 Add MS 88918/128-129
- Alternative Id.(ark) ark:/81055/vdc_100000000015.0x00027c
- Dates of Creation
- c 1955-16 Jul 1998
- Language of Material
- English German Hebrew
- Physical Description
- 24 folders and volumes
Scope and Content
Arrangement
In some cases notebooks and volumes appear to have been used for a number of different purposes including recording diary entries. Where possible notebooks used solely as diaries have been catalogued in one section (Add MS 88918/128/1-5), whilst notebooks that have been used for a number of purposes have been catalogued in Add MS 88918/129/1-18.
Access Information
Available for research unless otherwise stated
Not Public Record(s)
Physical Characteristics and/or Technical Requirements
23 folders and 1 oversize volume
Additional Information
Some diary material is reserved for Data Protection reasons (parts of Add MS 88918/128/1-3) and all notebooks are reserved until conservation work has been carried out on them. Two notebooks (Add MS 88918/129/4(4) and Add MS 88918/129/5(2)) have also been reserved for Data Protection reasons.