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Total number of records: 15

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Brotherton Collection13
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Leeds Poetry11
Leeds Russian Archive2

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autobiography15
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english literature2
english poetry2
english poetry 20th century history and criticism2
holocaust, jewish (1939-1945)2
letters2
photographs2
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Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)7
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn7
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)4
Fuller, Roy (1912-1991)1
O'Connor, Philip (1916-1998)1

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Notebook 42

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1970-1977

Notebook containing autobiographical prose and drafts of poems, as follows: - Autobiographical prose (fol. 1-2) - My wife has returned from Sweden... (untitled poem, fol. 3-4) - In a brown coat an...

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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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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 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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Notebook 33

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1974

Notebook containing autobiographical prose and drafts of a letter and poems. Includes: - Autobiographical prose containing themes and scenes used in The Feast of the Wolf(1971) , (fol. 1-17) . - Po...

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Notebook 38

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1969-1977

Notebook containing personal and critical notes, poems and letters as follows: - Notes on the publication of poetry for a lecture or essay (fol. 3-9) - Notes on self centred behaviour and girls (fo...

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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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Mixed Prose and Criticism (5)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1953-1970

Ms and typescript drafts of essay/article concerning the use/role of poetry (Lorna Tracy's ms comments on the ts draft); ms draft chapter (?) on Siegfried Sassoon (probably for 'Out of Battle'); annot...

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Mixed Prose and Criticism (2)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1956-1958

Typescript drafts of an essay/article describing Silkin's experience of working in a rope factory (accompanied by a letter addressed to Irving, suggesting that this is the first part of a longer artic...

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Roy Fuller Archive

Fuller, Roy (1912-1991)

1941-1990

Comprises: (a) 2 boxes (Boxes 1-2) containing Roy Fuller's autograph manuscript notebooks, comprising 25 numbered notebooks of poetry dated 1941-1983, 2 unnumbered notebooks of his reviews of works by...

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LIVEN (LIEVEN) Andrei Aleksandrovich (1884-1949)

[1810s]-2001, 2019-2022

A A Liven recollections of: "Stepan Stepanovich Strekalov" /1/; "Aleksandra Nikolaevna Strekalova" /2/; "Petr Alekseevich Vasil'chikov" /3/; ["Les Dessous de l'Histoire" /4/ (moved to 337 below)]; "Ig...

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Philip O'Connor, letters and papers with some of his writings

O'Connor, Philip (1916-1998)

1916-2003

Comprises the personal papers and documents of Philip O'Connor; his correspondence with various literary figures (including Michael Hamburger, Stephen Spender, Gregory Stephenson, and David Thomson), ...

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