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Brotherton Collection26
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Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)18
Blunden, Edmund (1896-1974)1
Penguin Books1

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Letters to Jon Silkin and Magazines

20 April 1965 - 3 October 1977

4 typescript letters to Jon Silkin from Professor Kenneth B. Marshall at Denison University (Ohio); and 1 ts letter from John N. Miller at Denison to Silkin. Also held in this file are copies of 'The ...

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Letters to Jon Silkin (Conference)

February 1965 - 31 March 1965

1 ms letter from C.C. Wordley, on behalf of the Society for Teachers of English, to Jon Silkin; accompanied by a duplicated typescript circular letter including arrangements for the 1965 S.T.E. confer...

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Letters to Jon Silkin

[1965]

1 typescript letter to Jon Silkin from Howard Moss of 'The New Yorker' (20 April 1965); and 1 rejection slip from 'The New Yorker.' Both the letter and rejection slip include Silkin's ms notes of poem...

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Letters to and from Jon Silkin

11 September 1953 - 4 November 1997

24 ms letters and 4 typescript letters from Emanuel Litvinoff to Jon Silkin; 2 carbon copy ts letters and 1 ms letter from Silkin to Litvinoff. The ms letter from Silkin to Litvinoff is written on the...

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Poems and Drafts (1)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1958-1961

Ms draft title and contents pages, and multiple ms and ts drafts and workings of poems later published in 'The Re-Ordering of the Stones'. The drafts include all but eight of the poems that appeared i...

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Letters to Jon Silkin

Blunden, Edmund (1896-1974)

12 April 1965 - 16 May 1965

1 carbon copy typescript letter from Jon Silkin to Edmund Blunden; 2 ms letters and 1 postcard from Blunden to Silkin. These items are accompanied by typescript interview questions for Blunden. The le...

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Uncollected Poems and Drafts: 1950s-1960s

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1954-1966

Ms and typescript poems, drafts and workings dating to the 1950s and 1960s. The vast majority of the poems in this series are uncollected, although there are some drafts and workings which relate to p...

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Notes for a Talk: Jewry in Exile

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1965-1966

Ms lecture notes in the hand of Jon Silkin for a lecture/talk titled 'Jewry in Exile', discussing religion, identity, diaspora, persecution, loyalies, and the state of Israel. It is possible that thes...

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Selected Poems (1980)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1979-1983

Papers relating to the collection 'Selected Poems', published by Routledge & Kegan Paul in 1980. The collection included poems from 'The Peaceable Kingdom' (1954), 'The Two Freedoms' (1958), 'The Re-O...

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Selected Poems (1988)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1987-1994

Papers relating to the collection 'Selected Poems', published by Routledge & Kegan Paul in 1988. The collection includes poems from 'The Peaceable Kingdom' (1954), 'The Two Freedoms' (1958), 'The Re-O...

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Poems New and Selected

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1965-1968

Papers relating to the collection 'Poems New and Selected'. The collection draws on Silkin's four books of verse, The Peaceable Kingdom (1954), The Two Freedoms (1957), The Re-Ordering of the Stones (...

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Letters to and from Jon Silkin

13 October 1954 - 2 April 1990

79 typescript letters, 5 ms letters and 2 ms postcards from various correspondents at publishers Chatto & Windus to Jon Silkin; and 29 carbon copy letters from Silkin to various at Chatto & Windus. No...

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