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Total number of records: 11

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Brotherton Collection11
English Literature11
Leeds Poetry11

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autobiography2
archives acquisitions1
clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)1
employment references1
poets as teachers1
radio plays1
student newspapers and periodicals1

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Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)10
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn10
Gotlieb, Howard B1

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Letters to Thomas Blackburn

Gotlieb, Howard B

16 November 1967-9 January 1968

This file contains correspondence from Howard B. Gotlieb, curator of Special Collections at Boston University Libraries. These letters show Gotlieb's method of collecting material for his 20th century...

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Notebook 57

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1950-1977

Notebook containing drafts and notes for poems, including the following: - This is the hand that held the knife (untitled poem, fol.1) - You'll never find the place where it began (untitled poem, f...

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Notebook 53

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

1948

Notebook containing drafts of the following poems: - The Return(Front inside cover and fol. 1. Published in In the Fire(1958) - In Memoriam(fol. 1) - Manic(fol. 2) - Aftermath(fol. 2-4 and 5-6. S...

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Notebook 51

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1940-1951

Notebook containing drafts of the following poems: - Consciousness(fol. 1) - J.A.B(fol. 1) - Morning turns the event between subtle fingers (untitled poem, fol. 2) - His head rolled forward on hi...

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Notebook 50

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1976

Notebook containing drafts of poems, critical notes and fictionalized autobiographical prose: - Now that arth[r]itis conditions... (untitled poem, fol. 1) - Retired at Sixty - It was beginning tha...

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Notebook 52

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1951-1954

Notebook labelled '1951 Post 'Outer Darkness' ', containing drafts of the following poems: - Jacob(Inside front cover) - The Newcomers(fol. 1-2) - Samson(fol. 2-3) - Jacob(fol. 3-4. Revision of ...

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Notebook 5

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1945-1975

Teaching notebook and includes manuscript notes and research on William Wordsworth, William Blake, Oliver Goldsmith, Ben Johnson and Joseph Conrad. The notebook also includes notes and cuttings concer...

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St. Marylebone Grammar School

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

1954-1960

This file contains items concerned with Blackburn's career as English master at St. Marylebone Grammar School, London 1948-1960. It includes 2 letters of reference from the headmaster and 1 Ministry o...

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Place of Meeting

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1956

This file contains 5 annotated typescripts, all drafts of a play titled 'Place of Meeting' .This play is a continuation of Euripides' 'The Bacchae.' The file contains the following:: - 2 x typescrip...

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Notebook 30

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

1930-1931

Notebook dated 1930-31, containing the following drafts of poetry and prose: - If you give your whole mind to a thing... (untitled poem, fol. 1) - The Christian(fol. 1-2) - Repressions(fol. 3) - ...

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Notebook 17

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1956-1957

Poetry notebook which containing drafts of the following poems: - Only I am breft (untitled poem and notes fol. 1) - I do not think the dawn will ever break (untitled poem fol. 1-3) - Connubial(fo...

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