I am currently checking through the large correspondence section of the archive. As I have explained before the correspondence is subdivided into separate sections for personal and writer's correspondence, general correspondence, letters from children and copies of Hughes' outgoing letters. Although the majority of the correspondence was catalogued in February and March a number of letters were found amongst other papers in the archive in later months. This means that it is all the more important to proofread this section of the catalogue to check that the information is correct as quite a few additions and changes have been made over the last six months. I am sure that the wide variety of correspondents will be of real interest to researchers.
Once it has been catalogued all the material has been placed into acid free four-flap folders, which can be folded to ensure so that they fit snugly around the material inside without damaging any of the individual papers. Whilst it could be argued that the wide variety of boxes in which the archive arrived (including boxes from Marks and Spencer, and Pampers) were most interesting to the eye the acid free boxes that the folders are now stored in will hopefully play a much greater part in ensuring the long term preservation of the archive.
Well now I had better get back to all that correspondence...
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