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Brotherton Collection11
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Leeds Poetry11

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falkland islands war, 19822
poetry readings united states2
universities and colleges united2
communal living1
correspondence1
flannan islands lighthouse disaster, flannan isles, scotland,1
fresnel lenses1
italian poetry 20th century translations into english1
lighthouses1
notebooks1

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Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)5
Smith, Ken (1938-2003)1

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Letters to Jon Silkin

11 November 1985

1 typescript letter to Jon Silkin from Norbert Krapf at Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus.

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Letters to Jon Silkin

1 July 1963 - 16 August 1963

2 typescript letters from Bernard Stanbury to Jon Silkin regarding the New Island Community, a proposed international cooperative settlement off the coast of Queensland, Australia. Held with these let...

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Letters to Jon Silkin

12 June 1985

1 typescript letter from Martin Tucker, editor of 'Confrontation' magazine (the literary journal of Long Island University), to Jon Silkin.

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Letters to Jon Silkin

20 October 1971 - 31 March 1972

2 typescript letters to Jon Silkin from Richard Weber ('Dick') at Southampton College, Long Island University. The letters relate both to Weber's poetry and the possibility of Silkin reading at the co...

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Poems, Drafts and Translations

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1963-1964

Largely clean carbon copy typescripts/drafts of the poems: - A Critic - Commission - Speech for a Politician - Reality and Other Places - Mother, Daughter and Hunter (published as Mother, Daught...

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Poems, Drafts and Workings (7)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1995-1996

Ms and typescript drafts of and workings towards poems published in 'Making a Republic.' The poems include: - Lament - The Inheritor - A Gentle Hare(including drafts and workings titled Hare, A Li...

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Letters to Jon Silkin, Manuscripts, Etc.

Smith, Ken (1938-2003)

December 1965 - 10 January 1994

Correspondence and other items sent to Jon Silkin by the poet Ken Smith. Includes 10 typescript letters and 7 ms letters/notes from Smith to Silkin. Letter dated 'Aug 12' [1971?] accompanied by an ann...

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To a Lighthouse: Drafts and Background Information

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1990

Ms and typescript drafts of and workings towards the poem 'To a Lighthouse', including drafts titled 'Finding a place' and 'Finding my own place'. The drafts are undated, but Silkin's use of the backs...

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Poems Towards a New Collection (2)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1993-1996

This file contains a typescript and ms contents list headed 'Poems in an Order;' and typescript copies and drafts of poems published in 'Making a Republic.' Includes: - Permission to Weep - The Inh...

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Circular

7 June 1982

1 annotated circular letter signed by Cecil Woolf, sent to Jon Silkin. The letter concerns Woolf and Jean Wilson's proposed volume 'Authors Take Sides on the Falklands,' and is accompanied by a printe...

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Notebook

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1984-1986

Red, bound notebook with ms notes for 'Gurney,' including changes, the stage, set and music; ms notes for Silkin's reading/performance of poems, letters and songs by Ivor Gurney at the University of N...

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