PLATH, Sylvia.

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Typed letter signed, to Ted Hughes. A reflective and discursive letter from Sylvia Plath to Ted Hughes, on Cambridge and their literary progress.This letter shows Plath more immersed in Cambridge life, especially thanks to Dr Dorothea Krook-Gilead (1920-1989) her supervisor and favourite tutor at Cambridge. Plath is writing following her Thursday morning tutorial with Dr Krook, "having, miraculously, as usual, completed in the small hours of 2am or so a 13-page paper outlining the uniqueness & chief tenets of the christian gospel". Her paper, she writes, particularly objected to the Christian view of the origin of evil, "god's foreknowledge and man's free will, and the low, debased view of physical love between man and women even in 'blameless wedlock'".Plath describes Krook as the "lovely dr krook", and sees her as "my one woman friend, here; she is the kind of teacher I would slave to be and these next two terms should be deeply rewarding just for what I can learn of lecturing and discussion-leading from her". Krook later recalled Plath as "one of the most deeply, movingly responsive pupils I had ever had. I felt the things I said, we said, her authors said, mattered to her in an intimate way, answering to intense personal needs, reaching to depths of her spirit." (Clark, Red Comet, p. 442).She contrasts this friendship to the difficulty she has spending time with college-mates whom she is accompanying to the Union. She takes particular exception to "vehement catholics; nar

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