Letters Home: Sylvia Plath
Selected and edited with commentary
by Aurelia Plath.
As a corrective to the American edition of The Bell Jar, Aurelia Plath published a selection of her daughters letters in 1975. Most of Sylvias smart-tongued comments and sexual references were excised from the text by her mother. The April 29, 1956 letter on display about Plaths future husband, Ted Hughes, is full of ellipses: He tells me dreams, marvelous colored dreams, about certain red foxes . . . The original letters, which are preserved at Indiana University in Bloomington, present a different person from the sanitized Sivvy of Letters Home.
Presented by Aurelia Schober Plath