Sylvia Plath Collections

This page will list archives and special collections holding Sylvia Plath manuscripts.

The general format below, followed when possible, is: University/Institution - Library Name - Department.
At a minimum, links are provided to either the library or the department level.

Below each is a list of the collection names which contain Plath-related materials. Links are provided to online finding aids or other useful information when possible. Libraries often have paper copies of finding aids available for use on site only. When in doubt, contact the librarian, archivist, or curator for more information.

  Smith College - Neilson Library - Mortimer Rare Book Room - Smith College Archives

     Sylvia Plath Collection, 1940-1981 (Mortimer Rare Book Room)
     Helle collection of Plath family photographs (Mortimer Rare Book Room)
     Steinberg photographs of Sylvia Plath related places (Mortimer Rare Book Room)
     Collection of papers on Bitter Fame, 1954-1991 (Mortimer Rare Book Room)
     Edward Butscher Collection of Papers on Sylvia Plath (Mortimer Rare Boom Room)
     Sylvia Plath Hughes Papers, 1955- (Smith College Archives)

  Indiana University at Bloomington - Lilly Library
  Sylvia Plath's Library
     Sylvia Plath's Library. Catalogued using information from Emory University, Indiana University, and Smith College.

  Harvard University - Houghton Library - Woodberry Poetry Room - Schlesinger Library
  Emory University - Robert W. Woodruff Library   University of Texas at Austin - Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center   University of Cambridge - King's College - Archives Centre   The Morgan Library and Museum   New York Public Library   University of Victoria (British Columbia) - McPherson Library
  Washington University at St. Louis - John M. Olin Library
  University of Reading (England) - Library
     [Correspondence concerning Sylvia Plath / by Linda Wagner-Martin (Chatto & Windus)] [manuscript], 1985-1986
     [Correspondence concerning Sylvia Plath / by Linda Wagner-Martin (Chatto & Windus)] [manuscript], 1987-1989

  British Library
     Insomniac [in 'Cheltenham Festival prize poems' collection]

  Massachusetts Historical Society   Mt. Holyoke College - Williston Library - Archives & Special Collections
     Kathryn Irene Glascock Poetry Prize Records, 1923 -

  Yale University - Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

  University of Maryland at College Park - Hornbake Library
  Brown University - John Hay Library
  University of Minnesota - Elmer L. Anderson Library - Children's Literature Research Center
  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Wilson Library
     Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes Collection

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