Sylvia Plath

Typed letter signed, to Edith and William Hughes ("Dear Ted's mother🦂 & dad")

describing Hughes's new job "as Instructor in English at the University of Massachusetts in the next town, about 15 miles away", their plans for the next year ("...Ted wants not to teach but get some other kind of work (without homework or extra preparation) in Boston next year while I write for a change...") and their scheduled return to Europe in autumn 1959, admitting her own exhaustion following a bout of pneumonia, 3 pages, 8vo (187-195mm x 147mm), blue-grey paper, [337 Elm Street, Northampton, MA,] 2 February [1958], autograph envelope, creased, light staining to first leaf 

SYLVIA PLATH WRITES TO THE PARENTS OF TED HUGHES. This letter was written during the couple's sojourn in the United States that ran for two years from the summer of 1957. At this time Plath was teaching at Smith College and this letter was written on the eve of a new semester. Plath was not enjoying the return to her alma mater and had turned down the opportunity to stay for a second year, thus ea💎rning herself the disapproval of 💞much of the faculty. Neither Plath nor Hughes were comfortable with small-town American life, and this letter announced their decision to move to Boston once her contract with Smith ended. 

LITERATURE:

The Letters of Sylvia Plath: Volume Two, pp.207-9