Scope and Content: Correspondence, notebooks, literary manuscripts, publications, photographs, personal documents, film.

This accession mainly reflects the later period of Hugo's career, from the 1970s through 1982. Acquired from Hugo's widow, Ripley Hugo, it also includes publications and plaques acquired from her subsequently, typescripts and galleys from publisher W.W. Norton and correspondence photocopied from originals lent by Norton. Some of the outgoing letters are originals which were donated by their recipients. The poetry notebooks are undated, but cover the later period of Hugo's career; Ripley Hugo attempted to assign approximate dates to some of them.

The Poetry Collections series consists mainly of typescripts or galleys of Hugo's published collections. An unpublished "New Book," however, consists of typed drafts of poems, some of which show minor revisions and some of which never appeared in book form.

The Publications series consists of many, though not all, of the periodicals and a few monographs in which Hugo's poems and other writings appeared. The annotated books represent only a small part of his library.

The Yale Younger Poets series represents Hugo's work as editor of that series from 1977 to 1982. He selected the winner of the competition each year and wrote an introduction to the winner's book. The bulk of the series consists of drafts of Hugo's introductions.

The Ripley Hugo series is primarily papers of his widow concerning Hugo's posthumous publications.

Terminology: Galleys uncut printings of a publication, with page breaks not made, which may show author's corrections Page proofs facsimiles of pages as they will appear in publication Printer's copy printed or typed version, copy-edited with instructions for the printer

Scope and Content: Two books of poetry annotated by Richard Hugo: 1962 edition of by William Stafford, and by Theodore Roethke, 1965 edition.

Scope and Content: Interviews, photocopied letters, poems of workshop participants, photographs and reminiscences of Hugo. Bulk of the accession regards Richard Hugo Poetry Workshop held at Seattle Central Community College, July 7-11, 1980.

Scope and Content: Microfilmed literary manuscripts, poetry notebooks, correspondence, publications, photographs, personal documents.

This microfilm contains material from the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections and from the University of Montana Mansfield Library. The University of Washington materials consist of nearly all of Accession No. 3655-001, described above. The films also include 17 notebooks borrowed from the University of Montana. The notebooks from the University of Montana's collection are undated but are Hugo's earliest, beginning with class notes from his student days at the University of Washington. In addition to the notebooks, the University of Montana loaned 18 loose pages of literary manuscripts (an essay and several drafts of a poem).

See note in accession 3655-001 for an explanation of terms used to describe different types of drafts or copies of works.

Scope and Content: This small accession consists primarily of Hugo's letters to Jerome Mazzaro, a younger Detroit poet, later a critic, and, at that time, editor of a literary journal, , published at the University of Detroit.

Scope and Content: VHS videotape of poetry reading on January 30, 1982. Hugo reads seven of his better known poems, including "What Thou Lovest Well Remains" and "Bear Paw."

Scope and Content: Hugo's high school yearbook, the West Seattle Kimtah, from West Seattle High School, with inscriptions by classmates, 1940. A poem by Hugo and a photograph of him and two other student poets appears on page 8; Hugo's portrait is on page 61 in the section with other juniors.

Scope and Content: Fishing creel, rod, reels, lures used by Hugo.

Scope and Content: Three letters to Hugo's colleague and friend, Michael Warren, then at the University of Victoria (British Columbia), together with Warren's comments on the letters.

Scope and Content: "Poetry Writing" (64 pages) consist of poems by Hugo and others, prepared by Hugo as a class project for "English 61" and includes several comments by Theodore Roethke. "Statements of Faith" (9 pages) includes six holograph pages, numerous substantive corrections and an earlier title, "How Poets Feel About Themselves." "Statement of Faith" was later published in .

Scope and Content: Richard Hugo's copy of by Wallace Stevens, published in 1945 by Alfred A. Knopf. Hugo has extensively annotated the primary poem in the collection, "The Man with the Blue Guitar."