Poetry Awards
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Poetry Awards
Classmark: BC MS 20c Hill/6/POE/1
Creator(s): Various
Date(s): 20 March 1961 - 9 October
Size and medium: 1
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/35673
Collection group(s): Leeds Poetry | English Literature
Description
30 items of correspondence and related items relating to poetry awards won by Geoffrey Hill. Includes:
- 1 typescript letter from J.L. Wade at Wade and Co. solicitors regarding the E.C. Gregory Trust Award (29 March 1961) and 1 typescript letter from Registrar J.V. Loach at the University of Leeds (3 June 1961);
- 3 typescript letters from Charles Monteith at Faber and Faber to Hill regarding the Faber Memorial Prize (17 April 1970 - 23 April 1970), and 2 cc typescript letters from Hill to Montieth (22 April 1970 - 3 May 1970);
- 1 typescript letter from R.M. Ritchie at Trower, Still and Keeling to Hill regarding the Hawthornden Prize (5 May 1970), and 1 cc typescript letter from Hill to Ritchie (6 May 1970); held with Hill's ms transcription of the press release for the Hawthornden Prize;
- 1 typescript letter from G.R. Davies at the Booksellers Association to Hill regarding the Whitbread Prize (27 September 1971); held with an invitation card to the luncheon for the Whitbread Prize;
- 1 typescript letter from J.M. Patterson at the Royal Society of Literature to Hill regarding the Heinemann Bequest (12 April 1972), and 1 cc typescript letter from Hill to Patterson (16 April 1972);
- 1 typescript letter from Michael Mackenzie at the Poetry Society to Hill regarding the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize (18 May 1972), and 1 cc typescript letter from Hill to Mackenzie (19 May 1972);
- 1 typescript letter of congratulation from André Deutsch at André Deutsch publishers to Hill (22 May 1972);
- a photocopy of a press clipping regarding the award of the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize to Hill (Evening Standard, 28 November 1979);
- 8 items of correspondence between correspondents at the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Hill regarding the Loines award including 1 typescript letter from John Hollander to Hill (28 February 1983), 1 cc typescript letter from Hill to Hollander (9 March 1983), 4 typescript letters from Margaret M. Mills/Mills's assistant to Hill (15 March 1983 - 29 March 1983), 1 typescript letter from Librarian Casindania P. Eaton to Hill (15 March 1983), and 1 cc typescript letter from Hill to Eaton (21 March 1985) with copies of his enclosures; held with a clipping regarding the American Academy of Arts and Letters awards, a copy Hill's form regarding the Ceremonial, a typescript of the American Academy of Arts and Letters citation for Hill's Loines Award, information about the American Academy of Arts and Letters and its awards, a programme for the 1983 Ceremonial, and a copy of the catalogue for the 1983 awards exhibition;
- 1 typescript letter from Harry Ford at the Ingram Merrill Foundation to Hill regarding the Ingram Merrill Award (17 July 1985), 1 cc typescript letter from Hill to Milton Maurer at the Ingram Merrill Foundation (25 July 1985), and a copy of a letter from the Foundation to Hill (2 August 1985);
- 1 typescript letter from Ronald Warwick to Hill regarding the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (19 September 1986), an ms copy of a letter from Hill to Warwick (30 September 1986), 2 press clippings referring to Hill's decline of the award (Evening Standard, 3 October 1986 and Observer, 5 October 1986), 1 typescript letter from Humphrey Price at Penguin to Hill (8 October 1986) accompanied by a draft of Price's letter to Peter Hillmore at the Observer with Hill's ms revisions, and 1 cc typescript letter from Price to Hillmore (9 October 1986).
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Digital photography is strictly prohibited. Photocopying is restricted and the photocopying of correspondence is prohibited. Enquiries relating to the photocopying of material should be addressed to the Head of Special Collections at Leeds University Library in the first instance. Direct quotation from manuscripts by Geoffrey Hill is permitted in unpublished PhD theses. The permission of the copyright holder must be sought for the use of quotations from manuscripts by Geoffrey Hill for works intended for publication.
Geoffrey Hill