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In Norfolk: Drafts

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1987-1988

Ms and typescript drafts of the poem 'In Norfolk'. Includes drafts titled 'Norfolk's', 'Love in Norfolk', and 'Norfolk's eagerness'. The drafts are undated, but Silkin's use of the backs of old letter...

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A New Life

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1953-1954

Ms draft short story (?) titled 'A New Life.' Written partly on the verso of an annotated ts draft poem titled 'I Call This Love.'

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Jews Without Arabs: Drafts

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1987-1989

Ms and typescript drafts of the poem 'Jews without Arabs', including drafts titled 'Hebrew', 'Absolom was lovely in his death', and 'Enemies'. The drafts are undated, but Silkin's use of the backs of ...

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Secret Service: Drafts

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1987-1988

Ms and typescript drafts of and workings towards the poem 'Secret Service', variously titled 'Agent', 'Love', 'Colonel', 'A government's colonel' and 'Genesis'. The drafts are undated, but Silkin's us...

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Letters to Jon Silkin, Etc.

27 August 1980 - 28 November 1980

1 ms letter and 1 ts letter from New Zealand author Phillip Wilson to Jon Silkin and Lorna Tracy. Letter dated 28 November 1980 accompanied by a ts of Wilson's short story 'New Loves, Old Wine,' submi...

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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...

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Poem Drafts and Workings (9)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1960-1963

Ms and typescript drafts and workings towards the following poems: - Sparrow - Why We Are All Socialists - Which Kind Do We Belong To? - What Each Person Wants - It has ceased being a wholeness ...

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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...

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Poem Drafts and Workings (8)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1960-1965

Ms and typescript drafts and workings of the following poems: - The Bugs - Destroy my self ... - Great! - Nature - The old man's eyes moisten with lust ... - The poems of Clare's madness ... -...

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Essays, Lecture Notes, Etc. 3 (Ibsen)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1960-1962

Typescript essays by Jon Silkin, with ms annotations in his own hand and annotations/comments in a second unidentified hand (presumably that of his tutor). The essays all relate to Ibsen's drama, and ...

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Poem Drafts and Workings (3)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1958-1962

Ms and typescript copies, drafts and workings of the following poems: - The choked bird twitters in the organ pipe ... - Conversion to Stone - Poem to be laid reverently on the grave of every Univ...

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Poem Drafts (3)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1976-1978

Ms and typescript poems and drafts for, or towards, 'The Psalms With Their Spoils'. Includes ms notes for acknowledgements; and a series of typescript drafts (some annotated/corrected in ms; some carb...

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