Search Special Collections
Results
Total number of records: 27
Count of Collection group
Top 10: Subject
War Literature: Miscellaneous (2)
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
1983-1986
Miscellaneous collection of items relating to Silkin's interest in war literature, originally held together in an envelope labelled '1st World War & War - Misc.' Includes a photocopy of Richard Tillin...
Letters to Jon Silkin
5 September 1961
1 ms letter from Marion Labistour, secretary of the English Society at the University of Hull, to Jon Silkin.
Photographs
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
1986
Black and white, and colour photographs taken during rehearsals (?) for the Alec (Dave) Bell/Pentameters production of Gurney, Hampstead, January-February 1986. Includes: - 14 x 17.5cm x 23.5cm blac...
Out of Battle Drafts (3)
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
c.1968
Carbon copy typescript drafts, largely clean but with some ms annotations, towards 'Out of Battle'. Includes drafts of chapters 1-7, numbered in ms pp. 1-232; an un-numbered draft of chapter 8:ii (Ric...
Planning and Correspondence
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
1994
2 ms letter from Andrew Mitchell (22 June and 20 July 1994) accompanying a photocopied ms draft on the markets for a CD-ROM of First World War literature and pages from GCSE syllabi and exam papers se...
Letters to and from Jon Silkin
British Broadcasting Corporation
5 May 1953 - 11 September 1997
89 typescript and 2 ms letters from various at the BBC to Jon Silkin; and 22 carbon copy letters from Silkin to various at the BBC. Notable correspondents include: - John Wain (2 letters; 1953) - D...
Exhibition Correspondence
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
1959
Typescript and ms lists of people, libraries, booksellers, and newspapers and periodicals to whom the exhibition catalogue had been sent; requests for copies of the catalogue from various corresponden...
Reviews of The Principle of Water
1974-1975
This file contains photocopies and press-cuttings of reviews of 'The Principle of Water'. These are accompanied by a typescript letter from Michael Schmidt to Jon Silkin (30 October 1974), indicating ...
Photographs, Exhibition Items, Etc.
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
1915-1917
This file comprises items originally held together in a ring-binder with clear plastic inserts which appear relate in part to Silkin's research for 'Out of Battle,' and to his interest in Rosenberg an...
4th World Congress of Poets
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
1979
Papers relating to the 4th World Congress of Poets held in Korea in 1979. Includes correspondence relating to the Congress (23 letters - see below); ts drafts of Silkin's paper 'East and West in Moder...
Miscellaneous: Research and Interest
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
1956-1996
This subfonds comprises items collected by Silkin as research materials and/or for general interest, which cannot be directly connected with his work. The subject matter includes contemporary poetry, ...
Letters to Jon Silkin
19 September 1984 - 1988
2 ms letters from the painter Patrick Hayman to Jon Silkin. Also held in this file are an invitation to a private view of an exhibition of works by Hayman and Helen Kedgley (26 September 1984), photoc...