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Crossley-Holland, Kevin10
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Sender: Gower, Patrick

Recipient: Crossley-Holland, Kevin

Letters: 1

Date(s): 10 June 1969

Location: BC MS 20c Crossley-Holland-2-2-3

Note: With drafts of poems January 1968-December 1969

Sender: Robbins, Henry

Recipient: Crossley-Holland, Kevin

Letters: 13

Date(s): 22 Jan-18 Dec 1973

Location: BC MS 20c Crossley-Holland-3-3-1: Farrar, Straus

Note: Letter of 30 Aug 1968 includes proof of jacket for "Beowulf"


Archive File

Drafts

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

1966-1968

Includes draft material relating to Kevin Crossley-Holland's limited edition poetry anthology 'Alderney, the Nunnery' (1968).

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Sender: Forsytb, James

Recipient: Crossley-Holland, Kevin

Letters: 1

Date(s): 29 Oct 1968

Location: BC MS 20c Crossley-Holland-3-3-1: Personal

Note: Sender is Director of Tufts in London (London branch of Tufts Univ, Massachusetts) where the poet taught a course in Anglo-Saxon literature & culture for several years from 1968. Congratulations on "Beowulf" broadcasts


Archive Series

Beowulf

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

1968-1996

This series contains items relating to Crossley-Holland's translation of 'Beowulf', first published in 1968. Includes correspondence with the various publishers who issued editions of the translations...

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Macmillan Edition

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

1967-1968

These folders contains items relating to the Macmillan edition of Crossley-Holland's translation of 'Beowulf', published in 1968. Includes notes and comments by Peter Crossley-Holland and Mario Rinvol...

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Notebook 11

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

1968

This notebook is labelled 'Poetry Notebook 1968', and includes the following (NB: 1 f. removed between pp. 56 and 57): - This world goes in a transitory way ..., pp. 2-11 - The village is a drowned...

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Correspondence

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

1981-2014

Correspondence and related material concerning Kevin Crossley-Holland's 'The Anglo-Saxon World' (1982), containing manuscript and typescript letters and emails, some annotated, between Kevin Crossley-...

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Correspondence : Green Children 1996 edition

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

1965-1997

The first file contains correspondence and other papers relating to the 1996 edition of Kevin Crossley-Holland's children's book 'The Green Children.' The file in which these items were originally hel...

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Worksheets From Monday Meetings

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

c.1969-1971

This file contains papers with title 'Monday Meetings: Leeds University 1969/71'. It consists mostly of ts worksheets of poems for reading and discussion at weekly poetry seminars. Some include ms not...

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