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 Materials
 Sylvia Plath Materials II - Boxes 1-8 - Boxes 9-15
 Sylvia Plath Materials III
 Sylvia Plath Materials IV
 Ted Hughes Materials I & II
 Gordon Ames Lameyer Materials

  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

 Sickroom Tulips (Houghton Library)
 Jean Valentine Papers, 1952-2004 (Schlesinger Library)
 Recordings of readings from her own works by Sylvia Plath (Woodberry Poetry Room, Lamont Library)
 Woodberry Poetry Room, Poetry readings (Woodberry Poetry Room)
 Photographs of SP & TH with Frieda Hughes (Woodberry Poetry Room)
 Typescripts of her poetry (Woodberry Poetry Room)

  Emory University - Robert W. Woodruff Library

 Sylvia Plath materials (Series 3)
 Ted Hughes papers
 Olwyn Hughes papers, 1951-1997
 Letters to Assia Wevill, 1955-1970
 Letters to Ben Sonnenberg, 1961-2000
 Letters to Frieda Hughes, 1971-1997
 Letters to Gerald Hughes, 1952-1991
 Letters to János Csokits, 1960-1998
 Letters to Lucas Myers, 1955-1988
 Letters to Peter Redgrove, [ca. 1966-1984]
 Letters to W. S. (William Stanley) and Dido Merwin, 1958-1969
 Daniel Weissbort papers, [ca. 1957-1999]
 Selden Rodman collection, 1938-1959
 Third programme radio scripts, 1949-1978

  University of Texas at Austin - Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

 Alfred A. Knopf Inc Records, 1873-1996
 Anne Sexton Papers, 1912-1996 (Bulk 1953-1974)

  University of Cambridge - King's College - Archives Centre

 Letters to J. M. Wober

  The Morgan Library and Museum

 Autograph transcript of 40 juvenile poems

  New York Public Library

 Yaddo Records, 1870-1980

  University of Victoria (British Columbia) - McPherson Library

 Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath collection

  Washington University at St. Louis - John M. Olin Library

 Lee Anderson papers

  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

 Atlantic Monthly Magazine records 1969-1974
 Edward Weeks papers, ca. 1934-1989

  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

 Archives of Turret Books, 1965-1975
 Turret Press Collection, 1965-1975

  Brown University - John Hay Library

 St. Martin’s Press Archive, 1952-1996

  University of Minnesota - Elmer L. Anderson Library - Children's Literature Research Center

 Emily Arnold McCully papers

  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Wilson Library

 Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes Collection