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Correspondence and photographs (6) from James Kirkup

Archive Item: BC MS ROM 1/4/2/12

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Correspondence and photographs (6) from James Kirkup

Level: Item

Classmark: BC MS ROM 1/4/2/12

Creator(s): Kirkup, James (1918-2009)

Date(s): Sep-Oct 1957

Size and medium: 6 black and white photographs; letter

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/509385

Collection group(s): Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections

Description

Letter (dated 17th Oct 1957) from James Kirkup [poet and Leed University Gregory Scholar] to Dorothy Una Ratcliffe, enclosed with 6 small photographs.


On letter headed paper of "Colegio Mayo Fray Luis de Leon, Salamanc," the letter describes his visit to a fair in Valladolid and having taken the photographs of people and horses there. [Horsefair]


On the reverse of each photo is the following:

1.The Sweet stall,

2, Three dear little burros,

3.Vallodolid – the horse fair – a general view, sept. 1957,

4. Vallodolid – the horse fair – a general view (on the banks of Pisuerga Sept. 1957),

5.the rope harness stand,

6. (one unmarked).

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