A treasure of love letters exploring the desire of Sylvia American poets for her husband, fellow poets Ted Hughes, ready to be auctioned in Sotheby’s, along with their wedding rings, family recipes, and photo albums.
Plath, the haunting poem turned his trauma devil into several modern English verses that were most troubled, killing himself in 1963 30 years old by putting his head in a gas oven.
His small children fell asleep in the flat but he had sealed their room against the gas.
They are not hurt.
Plath and Hughes were married in 1956 and their relationship was passionate about being excited.
His letters to Hughes explored his suffering about separation from him when he studied in Cambridge.
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“My flesh is cooler than wet soil,” Plath wrote.
“Do you know that you have the beautiful mouth the most delicious beautiful and your eyes wrinkled and you are all warm and smooth and elegantly muscular and at length and God I fell when I let myself think of you.”
“Honey, you’re the most beautiful meat piece
The letters were sold in Sotheby for July 9-21.
This sale consists of 55 lots and comes directly from the collection of Sylvia’s daughter, Frieda Hughes.
This sale also includes a stack of tarot cards given to platth by Hughes for his birthday and striking ink portraits drawn by Plath during the couple’s honeymoon in Benidorm.
Hughes died in 1998.