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Total number of records: 17

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Brotherton Collection17
English Literature17
Leeds Poetry17

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correspondence3
diaries2
manley edna2
autobiography1
books reviews1
clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)1
degrees, academic1
identification cards1
national service1
passports1

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Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)8
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn8
Brown, Wayne3
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)2
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)1

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Early Poems

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

c.1949-1952

Copies of early poems by Geoffrey Hill, including multiple photocopies of poems by in 'Bromsgrove County High School Magazine' ('Mars - The Bringer of War' and 'Fotheringay, 1587'; and three poems: 'A...

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The Outer Darkness

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1951

This series comprises a single file containing the following typescripts of poems with annotations, later published in Blackburn's collection 'The Outer Darkness' (1951): - The Beast - Lazarus - T...

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University of Oxford, Keble College

6 April 1951 - 17 August

12 items of correspondence relating to Geoffrey Hill's time as a student at Keble College, Oxford. Includes: - 1 postcard confirming the results of Hill's Preliminary Exams in 1951 (6 April 1951); ...

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A Darker Purpose

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1950-1960

This file contains 3 typescript drafts of a one-act (incomplete) play by Thomas Blackburn, titled 'A Darker Purpose.' Includes: - 1 x 14 page typescript, - 1 x 8 page typescript, - 1 x 10 page typ...

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Edna Manley's Diary : Scripts 100- 281

Brown, Wayne

1971

This file contains 181 transcripts of excerpts from Edna Manley' s diary from February 1939 to 16 May 1951, compiled by Wayne Brown in 1971. The original folder was labelled 'Edna' s Diary copy 2 [100...

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Scripts 1210- 1221

Brown, Wayne

c.1971-1973

This file contains the following transcripts: - 3 transcripts of addresses and articles concerning Edna Manley's work. - 1 letter from George Campbell to Edna Manley, dated 17 February 1951. - 1 l...

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Early Poems

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

c.1949-1954

Typescript drafts of early poems by Geoffrey Hill. Some of the drafts are dated, including: - Jupiter the Bringer of Jollity [ca. 1949] - Good Friday, 1 and 2 [1950] - Pentecost (2 drafts, both da...

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Notebook 53

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

1948

Notebook containing drafts of the following poems: - The Return(Front inside cover and fol. 1. Published in In the Fire(1958) - In Memoriam(fol. 1) - Manic(fol. 2) - Aftermath(fol. 2-4 and 5-6. S...

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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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Notebook 51

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1940-1951

Notebook containing drafts of the following poems: - Consciousness(fol. 1) - J.A.B(fol. 1) - Morning turns the event between subtle fingers (untitled poem, fol. 2) - His head rolled forward on hi...

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Scripts 386 - 399

Brown, Wayne

c.1971-1973

This file contains two copies each of the following transcripts: - 1 transcript of a letter from Rachel Manley to Norman Manley, dated 29 January 1960. - 1 transcript of a letter from Rachel Manley...

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Notebook 59

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1940-1951

Notebook containing drafts of poems and a short story. The contents are as follows: - Down dusty corridors she goes to court (front inside cover. Published as Scenes from Childhood VI in The Outer D...

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