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Total number of records: 12

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Brotherton Collection7
English Literature7
Leeds Poetry5
Leeds Russian Archive2
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1

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autobiography12
books reviews2
english literature2
english poetry2
english poetry 20th century history and criticism2
letters2
photographs2
alcoholism1
bank notes1
books and reading1

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Genoa, Italy1
London, United Kingdom1

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Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)3
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)2
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn2
Clarke, Mary Victoria Cowden1
Fuller, Roy (1912-1991)1
O'Connor, Philip (1916-1998)1
Robinson, Lilian1
Tateson, John1
Unwin, Thomas Fisher1

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Commonplace book, compiled by John Tateson

Tateson, John

1832-1853

Contains: (1) Ff.2-176. Account of his birth (1792) and early life in the parish of Longriston, and at Dunnington, near York; local preachers (especially Methodists) entertained by his father; removal...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Unwin, Thomas Fisher

1896-1897

Handwritten draft copies of letters from Mary Cowden Clarke to publisher Thomas Fisher Unwin, with a handwritten list of letters in Mary Cowden Clarke's hand. The letters contain references to Cowden ...

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Untitled Essay on Alcoholism

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1970-1977

This file contains 1 x 15 page typescript essay on alcoholism and its treatment, through medical and psychological therapies, from Blackburn's perspective as an alcoholic. Identified as 'chapter 2'.Bl...

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Materials relating to work in Poland in 1946-7 under the auspices of UNRRA and of a further visit in 1960, by Lilian Robinson of Bradford, West Yorkshire

Robinson, Lilian

c.1925-1975

The contents comprise: (1) Two typescript memoirs, 'Polish interlude' and 'Warsaw revisited - 1960'; (2) Four albums of souvenirs and photographs of people and places in Poland, mostly identified; (3)...

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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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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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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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SHAFT Family

1910s-1920s, [1980s], 1993

Shaft family baptism and school certificates and passports, Moscow, 1833/1905, 1871/1884, 1888, 1902-1918 /1-7/. Savings book, receipts and financial documents, Moscow, 1910-1919 /8-20/. Tax documents...

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FEN, Elisaveta (JACKSON, Lydia; née ZHIBURTOVICH, Lidiia Vital'evna) (1899-1983) (1)

1910-1984, 2012

[BOX 1] NOVELS, STORIES, POEMS (texts, books, journal issues, readers & "Prose Club" reports, blurbs, summaries, reviews, associated lists/papers): "Against the Tide" (1976) /1-5/; "All Thy Waves" (19...

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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 (3)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1959-1964

Annotated typescript draft translation of the Ungaretti poem 'Rivers;' typescript draft essay titled 'Journalists;' carbon copy typescript essay titled 'Readerships,' concerning audiences and the read...

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Mixed Prose and Criticism (4)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1953-1961

Ms and typescript drafts of essays and articles by Jon Silkin. Includes an ms draft of an autobiographical essay on his school days at Dolaucothi in Carmarthenshire (written partly on the versos of ty...

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