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Total number of records: 34

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Brotherton Collection34
English Literature33
Leeds Poetry33

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SubjectCount
correspondence10
books reviews4
clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)4
proofs (printing)4
biography reviews3
exhibition catalogs3
periodicals3
exhibitions2
lectures and lecturing2
dissertations, academic1

Count of People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)25
Ross, Alan (1922-2001)1

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Isaac Rosenberg

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1959-1991

Items relating to Jon Silkin's interest in and research into the Anglo-Jewish poet Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918). Includes papers relating to the Rosenberg Exhibition held at the University of Leeds in ...

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Rosenberg Exhibition

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1959-1964

In 1959 Jon Silkin and Maurice de Sausmarez (then Head of the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Leeds) organised an exhibition of manuscripts, printed works, drawings and paintings, letters...

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Silkin on Rosenberg

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1960-1985

Items relating to Silkin's work on and interest in Isaac Rosenberg and his poetry, including drafts of articles and essays, notes for a lecture/reading, a response to a reader of one of Silkin's essay...

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Reviews, Etc.

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1975-1991

Items relating to reviews of biographical works on Rosenberg, an edition of Rosenberg's collected poems and a radio play on Rosenberg by Jon Silkin; and a copy of a review of Rosenberg's play, Moses, ...

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Rosenberg Plaque

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

October 1983-September 1987

Correspondence relating to efforts to persuade the Historic Buildings Division of the Greater London Council to mount a commemorative plaque for Isaac Rosenberg in the East End of London. Includes cor...

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Rosenberg Dissertation and Essay

1987-1989

Copies of student work on Rosenberg's poetry collected by Silkin.

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Rosenberg / Imperial War Museum

1990-1991

Items relating to Rosenberg material held at the Imperial War Museum, London, and the Rosenberg centenary exhibition, The Half-Used Life, at the Imperial War Museum, November 1990-April 1991. Includes...

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Exhibition Catalogue: Drafts and Proofs

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1959

Drafts and proofs of items included in the Rosenberg exhibition catalogue, including an annotated typescript draft and 4 clean duplicated typescripts of Silkin's essay 'The Poetry of Isaac Rosenberg';...

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Exhibition Catalogue: Review Copies, Etc.

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1959

Typescript cover letters from Jon Silkin to recipients based at various newspapers and periodicals requesting reviews of the Rosenberg exhibition catalogue (28 May - 22 June 1959); returns notes for u...

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Exhibition Correspondence

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1959

Typescript and ms lists of people, libraries, booksellers, and newspapers and periodicals to whom the exhibition catalogue had been sent; requests for copies of the catalogue from various corresponden...

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Correspondence: Annie Wynick

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.11 February 1959 - 26 November 1960

Ms correspondence from Annie Wynick (Isaac Rosenberg's sister) to Jon Silkin (27 letters), and cc typescript correspondence from Jon Silkin to Annie Wynick (13 letters), covering the period from aroun...

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Exhibition Correspondence and Poems

1959

Ms and typescript correspondence addressed to Silkin (24 April - 2 October 1959) commenting on the Rosenberg exhibition, including letters from John Maycock at the College of St John (York), Joseph Co...

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