Hughes family | Childhood notes and doodles

Property of Frieda Hughes

Hughes family

Childhood notes and doodles

374 x 254mm. sheet, sections cut out irregularly, originally used for an entry from a poetry competition judged by Ted Hughes, labelled "attack" in Hughes' hand above a grid game of squares filled with symbols, with drawings by Ted (round eared wolfish creature; shark; head of a snake; bird), by Nicholas (two monsters), and by Frieda (candle burning), staining and creasing