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correspondence34
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hebrew poetry, modern translating2

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Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)14
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)12
Brown, Wayne2
Crossley-Holland, Kevin2
Amey, Michael1
Barker, George (1913-1991)1
Brown, Megan1
Heath-Stubbs, John (1918-2006)1
Manley, Edna1
Silkin, Jon, 1930-19971

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Archive File

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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C. Day Lewis Fellowship

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1976-1978

Papers relating to Jon Silkin's tenure of the C. Day Lewis Fellowship at Aylestone High School, Brent, London. Includes a copy of the Greater London Arts newsletter (September/October 1976), including...

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Town and Country School

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1956-1957

Papers relating to Jon Silkin's teaching work at the Town and Country School, London. Includes 3 ts letters to Silkin from the Headmaster, M.D.C. Graham; Silkin's ms records of his earnings; copies of...

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Reviews of Selected Poems (1993)

1981

Photocopies of reviews of the volume 'Selected Poems' published by Sinclar-Stevenson in 1993. Includes reviews by M. Wynn Thomas ('Acumen,' 20, October 1994); Herbert Lomas ( 'Ambit,' 138, 1994; photo...

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Draft of The Psalms With Their Spoils (2)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1978-1979

Clean typescript draft of 'The Psalms With Their Spoils', accompanied by a carbon copy ts letter from Silkin to John [i.e. John W.N. Francis] at W.W. Norton & Company, offering the new collection for ...

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Correspondence

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1980

Typescript correspondence between Jon Silkin and Nilli Cohen at the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature Ltd. (April-September 1980); and between Silkin and Ran Kedar, Director General o...

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Great War Exhibitions

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1979-1985

Photocopied information on Isaac Rosenberg and the Slade School of Art (for/from an exhibition?); catalogue for the Artists and the Great War exhibition of pictures from the Imperial War Museum collec...

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A Reply to Dominic Hibberd

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1981

Typescript and carbon copy drafts of Silkin's letter/article 'Owen: Elegist, Satirist or Neither; A Reply to Dominic Hibberd,' (publication details unknown; possibly the 'Times Literary Supplement') d...

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Personalia

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1947-1997

2 boxes containing mixed personal items and papers belonging to Jon Silkin. Includes the following: - Diaries for 1966 (letters inserted, incl. Lionel Miskin, Falmouth School of Art), 1977-78, 1979,...

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Ivor Gurney

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1973-1986

This file contains items collected by Hill relating to Ivor Gurney, and drafts of his Bateson Memorial Lecture, 'Gurney's Hobby', delivered at Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 1984, and subsequently ...

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Our Word is Our Bond

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1981-1982

Draft of Hill's critical article 'Our Word is Our Bond', first published in 'Agenda' magazine, vol. 21 no.1 (Spring 1983). The draft comprises 40 photocopied typescript leaves with Hill's ms correctio...

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To a Lighthouse: Drafts and Background Information

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1990

Ms and typescript drafts of and workings towards the poem 'To a Lighthouse', including drafts titled 'Finding a place' and 'Finding my own place'. The drafts are undated, but Silkin's use of the backs...

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