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Brotherton Collection33
Leeds Poetry33
English Literature32

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correspondence8
clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)2
diaries2
falkland islands war, 19822
notebooks2
poetry readings united states2
poets as teachers2
universities and colleges united2
aran islands (ireland) description and1
authors and publishers1

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Crossley-Holland, Kevin14
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)5
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)1
Brown, Wayne1
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)1
Mayer, Gerda1
Smith, Ken (1938-2003)1
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn1

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"Treasure Island"

35048

Notebook relates to a planned Broadway musical with music by Julian Style; the work was never completed. Includes drafts, notes, associated research material and correspondence

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The Aran Islands

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

1988-1989

This series contains items relating to Crossley-Holland's article 'The Aran Islands' written for the August 1989 issue of the American magazine 'Islands'. Includes correspondence, notebook and drafts ...

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Notebooks (Aran Islands)

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

1988

2 notebooks relating to Crossley-Holland's article on the Aran Islands. The first notebook (42 ff.; some pages blank), contains diary entries, descriptions and other notes (31 Aug - 8 Sept 1988); the ...

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Letters to Jon Silkin

11 November 1985

1 typescript letter to Jon Silkin from Norbert Krapf at Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus.

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Letters to Jon Silkin

1 July 1963 - 16 August 1963

2 typescript letters from Bernard Stanbury to Jon Silkin regarding the New Island Community, a proposed international cooperative settlement off the coast of Queensland, Australia. Held with these let...

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Letters to Jon Silkin

12 June 1985

1 typescript letter from Martin Tucker, editor of 'Confrontation' magazine (the literary journal of Long Island University), to Jon Silkin.

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Correspondence

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

1988-1989

These files contain correspondence relating to Crossley-Holland's article on the Aran Islands. There are 16 items of correspondence, including letters to and from various Editors of 'Islands' magazine...

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Letters to Jon Silkin

20 October 1971 - 31 March 1972

2 typescript letters to Jon Silkin from Richard Weber ('Dick') at Southampton College, Long Island University. The letters relate both to Weber's poetry and the possibility of Silkin reading at the co...

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Drafts of Pieces of Land

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

1971-1972

These files contain a manuscript, drafts and proofs of Crossley-Holland's travel book 'Pieces of Land'. The ms of the book (June-December 1971; 353 ff.) includes 3 press cuttings, chiefly relating to ...

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Poems

Mayer, Gerda

c.1964-1965

This file contains a ts (2 ff.) of the following poems by Gerda Mayer: - They hunt each other... - What is that beast whose elderly bleat... - The man on the desert island ... - Metamorphosis at ...

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Article Drafts

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

[1988]

This file contains drafts of Crossley-Holland's article 'The Aran Islands'. Includes 1 ts and ms draft (17 ff.), 1 ts draft with ms corrections (21 ff.), and 2 carbon copy ts drafts (16 ff.).

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