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Notebook 29
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)
c.1955-1956
Notebook with cover labelled 'Post Mortem', and 'Bacchae' crossed out, containing the following: - This day a proud man has stalked the halls of a lie... (untitled, possibly prologue to a play. fol....
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...
Notebook 37
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)
c.1945-1975
Notebook including critical notes on Shakespeare's 'Richard III', Emily Bronte's 'Wuthering Heights' and the following poem drafts: - Billions Attack(fol. 8-9) - I will be looking through our cotta...
Notebook 55
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)
c.1955-1956
Notebook containing the following drafts of poems: - Eros and Agape(fol. 1-2. Published in Into the Fire(1956) - Crime Time(fol. 2-3) - Family History(fol. 3-4, 8-10. Published in Into the Fire(19...
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...
The Tree of Blood
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)
c.1953-1954
This file contains 1 x 20 page annotated typescript and 1 x 20 page manuscript of a play written by Thomas Blackburn concerning old Norse mythology, titled 'The Tree of Blood'. The manuscript version ...
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) - ...
Notebook 27
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)
June 1953 - December 1954
Notebook with drafts of poems and dramatic works, and some prose passages. Most of the poems appear to have been published in the collection'In the Fire' (1956), which was written during Blackburn's t...