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Total number of records: 12

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Brotherton Collection12
English Literature12
Leeds Poetry12

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correspondence12
poets as teachers5
clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)3
autobiography2
booksreviews2
decedents' estates1
metaphysics1
minotaur (greek mythology)drama1
mythology, norse1
parapsychology1

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Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)12
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn12

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Notebook 32

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1950-1970

Notebook containing miscellaneous addresses and notes, shopping lists, notes, poem with the first line 'In Venice...' (fol. 23-28), and a letter from Blackburn to his daughter Julia (fol. 29-31) .

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Notebook 35

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1976

Exercise book labelled 'Readings', and containing personal notes, autobiographical information, letters and poetry as follows: - Personal notes about meanings of own poetry (fol. 1-3) - Pain(fol. 3...

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Correspondence

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

1947-1986

This series contains correspondence between Thomas Blackburn and various friends, colleagues and family members. It also includes letters to his wife, Margaret (Peggy), concerning Blackburn after his ...

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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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Appointments

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1940-1973

This series contains documents relating to Thomas Blackburn's career aside from being an author and poet.

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Papers relating to Thomas Blackburn's Estate

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

1974-1977

This file contains items relating to the management of Thomas Blackburn's estate after his death on 13th August 1977. The legal documents, bank statements and will are all photocopies.

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Notebook 7

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1945-1975

Teaching notebook containing the following: - Manuscript research notes on William Blake, Samuel Johnson, Robert Browning, Alexander Pope and Joseph Conrad's Victory: An Island Tale(fol. 3-73; 74-84...

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The Bull of The Gods

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1956-1958

These files contain typescripts of a play concerned with the myth of the Minoan Bull, i ncluding: - 1 x 74 page typescript, previously stapled into a brown cover with Blackburn's Leeds University Sc...

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Notebook 15

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1945-1975

Teaching notebook including manuscript research and criticism notes on Shakespearean tragedy and John Milton's 'Paradise Lost'. Fol. 1-40 contain clippings of a text on 'Paradise Lost' (author unident...

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Notebook 16

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1945-1975

Teaching notebook including manuscript critical notes on Thomas Peacock, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Francis Bacon, Thomas Browne, D.H Lawrence and Ben Jonson and research notes on religion, Catholicism and...

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Notebook 19

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1945-1977

Teaching notebook including critical notes on the English method, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Percy Bysshe Shelley, tragedy and Thomas Hardy. Drafts by Blackburn contained in the notebook are as foll...

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