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Crossley-Holland, Kevin9
Brendon, Joanna1
Gordon, Giles1
Wilkinson, Tim1

Sender: Wilkinson, Tim

Recipient: Crossley-Holland, Kevin

Letters: 6

Date(s): 11 Feb-17 June 1976

Location: BC MS 20c Crossley-Holland-3-3-1: Folio Society

Note: Written from The Folio Society Ltd. Letter of 27 Nov 1972 includes photocopy of letter from Tim Wilkinson to Bruce Mitchell dated 27 Nov 1972


Archive Series

The Rain-Giver

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

1970-1978

This series contains items relating to Crossley-Holland's collection, 'The Rain-Giver' (1972), including correspondence and proofs.

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Pieces of Land

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

1970-1979

This series contains items relating to Crossley-Holland's travel book 'Pieces of Land', published in 1972. Includes correspondence, drafts, and research materials.

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Sender: Crossley-Holland, Kevin

Recipient: Gordon, Giles

Letters: 3

Date(s): 26 March 1970-15 May Jan 1972

Location: BC MS 20c Crossley-Holland-6-1-1: Gollancz

Note: Carbon copies. Letter of 26 March is stapled to letter from Giles Gordon to Kevin Crossley-Holland dated 24 March 1970. Letter of 15 May 1972 includes proposed list of recipients of complimentary copies of "Pieces of land"


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Correspondence

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

1970-1978

This file contains the following correspondence, some of which includes letters concerning previous circulations of 'The Rain Giver,' under previous titles: - 3 letters from Oxford University Press ...

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Sender: Brendon, Joanna

Recipient: Crossley-Holland, Kevin

Letters: 1

Date(s): n.d. [?1972]

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

Note: Postcard. With 6 ff photocopied information about a staging of Beowulf using puppets (see letter from Lawrence Butler to K C-H dated 4 Jan 1972).Consists of pictures of puppet heads, staging plans and descriptive text by Chris Leith, designer of the puppets. Sender is sometime director of St John's Smith Square


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Poem Drafts

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

February 1966 - October 1967

These files contain 2 envelopes of manuscript and typescript poem drafts (213 ff), including poems later published in collections including 'My Son' (1966) and 'The Rain-Giver' (1972). Includes the fo...

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Poem Drafts

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

January 1968 - December 1969

These files contain 2 envelopes of manuscript and typescript poem drafts (171 ff.), including drafts of poems published in 'Norfolk Poems' (1970) and 'The Rain-Giver' (1972). Includes: - Nightfall, ...

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Notebook 12

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

December 1968 - March 1970

The period covered in this notebook coincides with Crossley-Holland's tenure of the Gregory Fellowship in Poetry at the University of Leeds, and includes drafts of poems published in 'The Rain-Giver' ...

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