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Letters to Jon Silkin and Poems
26 May 1982 - 28 June 1988
1 ms letter, 1 Christmas card and 1 typescript letter from Tong-Ch'un Sin (Tong-Choon Shin) to Jon Silkin. The ms letter is accompanied by photocopied pages comprising photographs, 2 poems in translat...
Feeling and Morality
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
1992
Photocopied typescript of Silkin's article 'Feeling and Morality: A Survival From the Sixties?,' written in response to assertions by John Bayley in his essay 'The Tongue's Satisfaction,' (published i...
Poems and Drafts (3)
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
c.1985-1986
Ms and typescript drafts of 'A Woman From Giannades' and a poem beginning 'I searched the mind's heated ...'In addition to these items there are photocopies of a typescript sheet, heavily annotated/co...
Gurney Scripts (2)
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
1984-1985
4 clean photocopied typescripts of the script for 'Gurney,' one of which was originally held in a clear plastic file with note 'Gurney by Jon Silkin, received 3 Oct 84.' Also held in this file is a po...
Letters to Jon Silkin
[September] 1984 - 1996
7 typescript letters and 1 telegram from W.D. Snodgrass to Jon Silkin; 1 ms note in Silkin's hand with Snodgrass's address (dated 7/9/84). Also held with these letters are autographed limited edition ...
War Poets
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
1970s
Typescript list 'Poems to be used for 'War Poets' ' and photocopies; photocopies of published poems by Ivor Gurney, Wilfred Owen, Herbert Read, Wilhelm Kremm, August Stramm, Siegfried Sassoon and Isa...
Notes, Lists and Drafts
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
1982-1987
Ms notes and lists including author names and page references; A5 spiral-bound notebook containing ms notes for work on Anglo-Jewishness, a transcription of Geoffrey Hill's poem 'September Song,' and ...
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...
Translations from Hebrew and Arabic
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
c.1966-1968
Ms and typescript drafts and copies of translations of poems from Hebrew and Arabic, inlcuding poems by Yehuda Amichai, Avraham Chalfi, Amir Gilboa, Uri Zvi Greenberg, Dalia Ravikovitch, Bat-Sheva She...
Israeli and Arab Translations
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
c.1967
Typescript letters from Tom Maschler at Jonathan Cape to Silkin (19 January 1967), and from Silkin to Nora Smallwood at Chatto and Windus (28 January 1967), regarding the proposal for an anthology of ...
Resource Material, Etc. (2)
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
1917-1918
Items collected by Silkin as resource/background material for 'The Penguin Book of First World War Prose,' and more generally relating to his interest in the War. Includes items purchased from an unkn...
Mixed Prose and Criticism (4)
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
c.1953-1961
Ms and typescript drafts of essays and articles by Jon Silkin. Includes an ms draft of an autobiographical essay on his school days at Dolaucothi in Carmarthenshire (written partly on the versos of ty...