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Letters to Jon Silkin

6 February 1978 - 21 May 1982

Letters to Jon Silkin from correspondents at Harvard. Includes 1 ts letter to Silkin from Stratis Haviaras of the Poetry Room at the Lamont Library; and 1 ts letter to Silkin from Stephen Holmes.

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Poem Drafts and Workings (11)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1990-1991

Ms and typescript drafts and workings of a poem beginning 'Her flowers a torch ...' (with drafts titled 'The Generous Space,' 'Flowering,' 'Her Rule,' 'Magnitude' and 'In Her Daughter's Room') and ...

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Letters to and from Jon Silkin

October 1993 - 14 May 1995

3 word-processed letters and 1 fax from Taylor Mignon, poet and editor of the literary newsletter 'Living Room,' to Jon Silkin; and 1 carbon copy typescript letter from Silkin to Mignon. Mignon's lett...

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Letters to Jon Silkin

26 April 1962 - August 1997

Letters to Jon Silkin from correspondents at the 'Jewish Chronicle.' Includes 1 typescript letter from Lionel Simmonds (features editor), 1 typescript letter and 1 ms letter from Tosco Fyvel (literary...

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Letters to Jon Silkin

16 January 1976 - 3 November 1997

12 ms letters, 3 ts letters and 1 photocopied ts fax from Dennis Silk to Jon Silkin. Silk's letter dated 3 November 1997 is accompanied by a photocopied ts of his 'Kasidas.' There are also 2 short pho...

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Notebook, Fragments and Drafts

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1956-1960

Notebook with London County Council printed on the front cover, with ms notes/plans for a poem including headings 'David's Life' and 'Gnat's Life' and an ms draft beginning 'In the room where you wait...

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Poem Drafts and Workings (6)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1996-1997

Ms and typescript drafts, workings and copies of the following poems: - The Life of Tenderness - Uncrowned Earth - A Quaker's Death - Female God(including drafts titled Baruch) - A Wild Cherry T...

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Poems and Drafts (5)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1989-1990

Typescript (some annotated) and photocopied drafts and clean copies of the following poems: - Daughter Abandoned - Chrysalid - A Tyrant Changes the Body - In Her Daughter's House (including draft...

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Drafts and Poems (2)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1992-1997

Ms and typescript drafts of the following poems: - Water gushing onto the cone-form mountain ... (including a draft titled The Sub-Tone of Sadness; and a draft addressed to Catherine de Vito) - The...

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Letters to and from Jon Silkin

6 June 1991 - 30 September 1993

2 word-processed letters and 3 ms letters from Stephen Forster, editor of 'Printed Matter' (Japan), to Jon Silkin; 1 carbon copy ts letter from Silkin to Forster, and a cc ts 'blurb' by Silkin on Fors...

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Audio-Visual Items

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1981-2002

Videos of Jon Silkin reading from and talking about his own work, and that of Wilfred Owen. DVD access copies of these items are available for consultation. Reference numbers for the DVD copies are g...

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Residencies, Readings, etc.

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1990-1992

Mixed papers relating to poetry readings and residencies undertaken by Jon Silkin ca. 1990. Includes a programme for the Writer's Evening organised by the University of Dundee and the Scottish Arts Co...

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