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A letter from parent to child - Ted and Nicholas Hughes

Most of my blog is my own diary and opinion. Occasionally I press something in between its pages like a butterfly wing. This is one of those times.

Below is a letter from Ted Hughes, in 1986, to his 23-year-old son, Nicholas, reprinted from the Letters of Ted Hughes.

Dear Nick, 

I hope things are clearing.

It did cross my mind, last summer, that you were u…