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Total number of records: 46

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Brotherton Collection46
English Literature46
Leeds Poetry46

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autobiography9
poets as teachers7
correspondence5
clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)3
mythology, norse3
poetics3
booksreviews2
english literaturehistory and2
alcoholism1
artists' contracts1

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Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)45
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn45
Raine, Kathleen1

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Untitled Scrapbook

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1954-1955

Copy of the periodical 'English,' VIII:48 (Autumn 1951), used as a scrapbook for newspaper cuttings. Cuttings include Thomas Blackburn's poems, reviews and some pictures, poems and articles cut from n...

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Untitled Draft Novel

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1960-1970

This file contains a 186 page annotated typescript draft of an untitled 16-chapter novel. The main character is 'George' or 'John Goodwin'. Sections of the novel appear to be semi autobiographical, an...

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Untitled Essay on Alcoholism

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1970-1977

This file contains 1 x 15 page typescript essay on alcoholism and its treatment, through medical and psychological therapies, from Blackburn's perspective as an alcoholic. Identified as 'chapter 2'.Bl...

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Untitled Typescript Poems

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1940-1977

Typescripts/drafts of the following untitled poems by Thomas Blackburn: - Of your absence I am reminded ... - But who shall come home to his own country ... (labelled as section II of a poem) - Lo...

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Untitled Essay on the Paranormal

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1960-1977

This file contains a pages of typescript fragments towards an essay or chapter on a paranormal experience witnessed by Thomas Blackburn and his wife.

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Untitled Lecture on Morality

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1950-1970

This file contains a carbon copy typescript of an essay or lecture by Thomas Blackburn on morality.

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Untitled Lecture on George Meredith

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1950-1970

This file contains an manuscript of an essay or lecture by Thomas Blackburn on George Meredith's 'Modern Love'.

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Untitled Lecture on W.B. Yeats

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1950-1970

This file contains an manuscript of an essay or lecture by Thomas Blackburn on the work of W.B. Yeats.

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Notebook 45

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

1975

Notebook containing draft poems, prose notes and critical notes. These include the following: - I still suppose they go on for a few years more (untitled poem, inside front cover) - I would if it w...

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Notebook 49

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1975

Notebook containing autobiographical prose, draft poems and personal notes: - Autobiographical prose (fol. 1-8, 9-16) - Last Night (fol. 8) - Grandma Florence... (untitled poem, fol. 8-9) - Final...

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Notebook 44

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

1975

Notebook containig critical notes on Shakespearean tragedies, personal notes and draft poems, as follows: - Well I must do my stuff... (untitled poem, inside front cover) - There is a pond... (unti...

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Notebook 42

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1970-1977

Notebook containing autobiographical prose and drafts of poems, as follows: - Autobiographical prose (fol. 1-2) - My wife has returned from Sweden... (untitled poem, fol. 3-4) - In a brown coat an...

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