Birthday Letters Birthday Letters Birthday Letters, published in 1998, is a collection of poetry by English poet and children's writer Ted Hughes. Released only months before Hughes's death, the collection won multiple prestigious literary awards. This collection of eighty-eight poems is widely considered to be Hughes's most explicit response to the suicide of his estranged wife Sylvia Plath in 1963, and to their widely discussed, politicized and "explosive" marriage. Until the publication of this book, 35 years after Plath's suicide, Hughes had said and published nearly nothing about his relationship and life with Plath. When it was discovered that he had infidelities
Cely Letters evidence in a lawsuit. The "Cely Letters" are primary sources of information about the English economy and English society at the end of the Wars of the Roses. Cely Letters The Cely Letters are a collection of family correspondence written in the 15th century, which describe the lives and business activities of a family of London wool merchants. This collection is one of the few surviving letter collections from the 15th century, along with the Paston Letters and the Stonor Letters. While the "Paston Letters" cover a period spanning over 3/4 of a century, the "Cely Letters" cover a much