The archives of the magazine Modern Poetry in Translation

Item date: 1965 - 1983
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 11,707
Item date acquired: 1988
Item institution: King's College London
Town/City: London

Extensive correspondence , both letters received and carbon copies of those sent, with translators, literary consultants, editors, publishing houses, academics, funding bodies, the Arts Council and others. There is a fine series of more than 50 letters from Ted Hughes to Daneil Weissbort with replies, discussing in detail the running of the magazine. Other correspondents include Stephen Spender, George Steiner, Al Alvarez, George Macbeth, Jon Silkin, Alan Silitoe and DJ Enright. There are also numerous typescripts, many corrected or revised of poems and articles in translation