Sylvia Plath | Autograph letter signed, to Edith & William Hughes, "daydreaming about the moors", [c.5 May 1957]

Sylvia Plath

Autograph letter signed, to Edith and William Hughes ("Dear Ted's mother & dad")

on their life in Cambridge, her degree ("...it seems I have to read every play & bit of philosophy written in the last two thousand years..."), their life together ("...Ted takes me for lovely walks along the river in Grantchester Meadows to look for water-rats & owls..."), looking forward to visiting them in Yorkshire ("...I catch myself daydreaming about the moors, with the mad-eyed moor sheep, & then the wonderful view from your livingroom windows over the green fields which always makes me think of living on top of the world..."), and their plans for writing over the summer, 2 pages, 8vo (176 x 139mm), blue writing paper, envelope addressed in Hughes's hand, [55 Eltisley Avenue, Cambridge,] "Sunday afternoon" [c.5 May 1957], minor water stain at bottom of second page

PLATH AND HUGHES NEAR THE END OF THEIR TIME IN CAMBRIDGE. It had been a busy and fruitful period. Both had pieces in the latest Granta ("...our names were on the poster together: our first publication together..."), giving them some local celebrity. At the end of term they would visit the Hughes family near Hebden Bridge - to Plath, the Yorkshire moors were the only landscape that could compare to the ocean - before sailing for America. 

LITERATURE:

The Letters of Sylvia Plath: Volume Two, pp.125-26