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'Northern poet's earliest days'

28 Mar 1957

Press cutting of a review of the poet James Kirkup's 'The Only Child' by W.T. Oliver, published in the Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury. Features a detail from the portrait of Kirkup by Maurice de Sau...

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Luigi Pirandello exhibition catalogue

1953

Printed catalogue for an exhibition dedicated to the Italian dramatist, novelist and poet Luigi Pirandello, held by the University of Leeds in 1953. The exhibition took place in the Brotherton Library...

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[unidentified sender concerning Isaac Rosenberg] to Maurice de Sausmarez

c. 1959

Undated handwritten letter from unidentified sender to Maurice de Sausmarez, apologising for the delay to de Sausmarez's visit, discussing the Isaac Rosenberg exhibition at the University of Leeds and...

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An Academy of fine portraits—and suprises

3 May 1952

Press cutting titled 'An Academy of fine portraits—and suprises' published in the Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury on 3 May 1952, in which the art critic W.T. Oliver reviews the Royal Academy of Art...

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James Kirkup to Maurice de Sausmarez

1951-1965

Handwritten and typewritten letters and postcards from the poet and translator James Kirkup to Maurice de Sausmarez and handwritten and typewritten letters from the poet John Betjeman to James Kirkup ...

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Isaac Rosenberg

1959

Printed catalogue for the Issac Rosenberg exhibition presented at the University of Leeds between May and June 1959, organised by Maurice de Sausmarez and the poet Jon Silkin. Silkin contributed a tex...

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