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Brotherton Collection10
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poetry readings united states4
universities and colleges united4
little magazines2
authors and publishers1
copyright1
correspondence1
gases, asphyxiating and poisonous war1
publishers and publishing1
small presses1
war poetry, scottish1

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Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)2
Kingsbury, Jack1

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Letters to Jon Silkin

28 September 1956

1 ms letter from Robert Bruce, founding editor of the little magazine 'Coffee-House Talk,' to Jon Silkin.

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Letters to and from Jon Silkin

9 June 1983 - 24 August 1990

5 typescript letters and 5 ms letters from Bruce King to Jon Silkin (some including ms notes and/or signature of Adele King); 1 ts letter from Adele King to Silkin; 1 carbon copy ts letter from Silkin...

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Letters to and from Jon Silkin

22 May 1974 - 30 January 1986

16 ms letters from Bruce Chandler of the Heron Press to Jon Silkin; and 3 carbon copy letters (2 ms, 1 typescript) from Silkin to Chandler.

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Letters to and from Jon Silkin

18 March 1971 - 20 July 1979

34 typescript letters, 1 ts postcard, 1 ms card and 1 ms postcard from Michael Schmidt, poet and founder of Carcanet Press, to Jon Silkin; and 2 cc ts letters from Silkin to Schmidt. .Schmidt's ts pos...

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Letters to and from Jon Silkin

14 September 1977 - 23 November [1983]

Letters to Jon Silkin from correspondents at Colgate University (Hamilton, N.Y.). Includes 3 typescript letters to Silkin to Neill R. Joy, Chair of the Dept. of English; 2 ts letters to Silkin from Br...

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War Poetry Publications

1975-1991

Offprint of Hilda D. Spear and Sonya A. Summersgill's 'Poison Gas and the Poetry of War,' from 'Essays in Criticism,' vol. XLI no. 4 (October 1991), with inscription to Jon Silkin on cover (26 Novembe...

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Letters to Jon Silkin

9 April 1987

1 typescript letter of thanks to Jon Silkin from Charles William Foster at the University of North Alabama.

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The Peaceable Kingdom/Heron Press (1)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1969-1971

Ms draft letter from Jon Silkin to the Heron Press (?) following the issuing of a prospectus for the republication of 'The Peaceable Kingdom,' ca. 1969. The letter refers to the lack of permission to ...

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Letters to and from Jon Silkin

Kingsbury, Jack

[December] 1985 - 25 January 1994

Correspondence between Jon Silkin and Jack Kingsbury of the University of North Alabama. Includes 1 Christmas card with typescript message, 1 typescript letter, 1 ms postcard and 11 ms letters from Ki...

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The Peaceable Kingdom/Heron Press (2)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

early 1970s

Items relating to the revised edition of 'The Peaceable Kingdom' published by the Heron Press in 1975. Includes a bound notebook with photocopies of pages from the 1954 edition pasted in, and with Sil...

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