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Total number of records: 12

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Brotherton Collection12
English Literature12
Leeds Poetry12

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autobiography3
poetics2
poets as teachers2
artists' contracts1
authors and publishers1
children's literature1
clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)1
english drama1
english fiction1
english literature1

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Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)12
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn12
Blackburn, Margaret Mcguire1
Gatien, Dominique1

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From 190011

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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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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....

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Contracts and Royalties

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

1966-1976

This series comprises a single file containing the following items: - Contract with Putnam & Co. Ltd for An Anthology of English Verse 1945-60. - Contract (28 February 1966) for an untitled literar...

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Notebook 28

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

1956

Notebook with teaching notes and drafts of poems and plays. The notebook is dated 'May 1956,' and contains the following: - Draft of untitled play (fol. 1-11. This same play appears as Out of the Se...

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Thomas Blackburn Archive

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1893-1988

The items in this collection relate to Thomas Blackburn's personal life, his career as a poet and his teaching career. Comprises: typescripts, autograph manuscripts and other papers relating to Thoma...

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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...

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Notebook 18

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1970-1977

Teaching and poetry notebook with teaching notes on Jacobeans and Jacobean drama and William Wordsworth. It contains the following: - A timetable for teaching classes (front endpaper) - Names of B....

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Notebook 50

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1976

Notebook containing drafts of poems, critical notes and fictionalized autobiographical prose: - Now that arth[r]itis conditions... (untitled poem, fol. 1) - Retired at Sixty - It was beginning tha...

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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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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) - ...

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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...

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Notebook 47

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

1969

Notebook containing drafts of 'The Feast of the Wolf' (1971) alongside personal and critical notes and the following draft poems: - Notes and prose for novel (fol. 3-18) - 1969(fol. 14-18) - Indif...

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