Letters of Richard Hughes,

Four holograph and two autograph letters, 1929-1947 and undated, written by Richard [Arthur Warren] Hughes, author of A High Wind in Jamaica (London, 1929), to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Leach. The writer refers to a visit to the Adirondacks, a cruise with Harrison (Hal) Smith, the sale of 11,000 copies of his novel, his indebtedness to Henry Leach for the title of A High Wind in Jamaica, the schooling of his children, his removal from Laugharne Castle to Talsarnau, Merioneth, etc.

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Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 11047D

December 2008.

Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume III (Aberystwyth, 1961); Hughes, Penelope: Richard Hughes, Author, Father (Gloucester, 1984); and Graves, Richard Perceval: Richard Hughes (London, 1994);

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References to the schooling of Hughes's children and the family's move to Talsarnau are to be found in, e.g., Hughes, Penelope: Richard Hughes, Author, Father (Gloucester, 1984), pp. 55ff, 67ff.; references to Henry Leach's coining of the title 'A High Wind in Jamaica' may be found in Graves, Richard Perceval: Richard Hughes (London, 1994), p. 172; to sales of A High Wind in Jamaica (in a letter, n.d., to Joseph Brewer) in op. cit., p. 187; and to Hughes's cruise in the company of Harrison (Hal) Smith in op. cit., p. 184.

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