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Total number of records: 11

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Archives7
Indexes4

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Brotherton Collection7
English Literature7
Leeds Poetry7
Letters Database4

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correspondence1
forums (discussion and debate)1
poets as teachers1
riddles1

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Crossley-Holland, Kevin11
Little, David1
Not Known (Letter Not Signed)1
The Little Bookroom Pty. Ltd (Children'S Book Specialists)1
Thwaite, Anthony1

Archive File

Drafts: House of the Little Wolves

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

c.1996-1997

This file contains early ms and ts drafts and notes towards the play 'The Wuffings', at this stage titled 'House of the Little Wolves.' Includes an ms and ts draft marked 'Draft ms.'; ms notes on back...

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Sender: Little, David

Recipient: Crossley-Holland, Kevin

Letters: 1

Date(s): 13 July 1987

Location: BC MS 20c Crossley-Holland-1-12-1

Note: Sender is Programme Business Manager, Anglia TV

Sender: The Little Bookroom Pty. Ltd (Children's Book Specialists)

Recipient: Crossley-Holland, Kevin

Letters: 1

Date(s): 30 Aug [1990]

Location: BC MS 20c Crossley-Holland-7-7-1: Personal

Note: Signature unreadable. Written from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Sender: Not known (letter not signed)

Recipient: Crossley-Holland, Kevin

Letters: 1

Date(s): n.d. [? 1986]

Location: BC MS 20c Crossley-Holland-1-10-1

Note: Written on photocopies of "John's little woodcuts"

Sender: Crossley-Holland, Kevin

Recipient: Thwaite, Anthony

Letters: 2

Date(s): 29 July-20 Aug 1985

Location: BC MS 20c Crossley-Holland-1-9-1

Note: Carbon copies, stapled to letter from Thwaite. Asks information about Thwaite's poem "Arabic script", which is to be included in the anthology. Includes a little personal news.


Archive File

Notebook 17

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

April 1975

This notebook contains notes and drafts of prose and poetry, including the following: - An Incident on Orkney Island, pp. 14-15 - Illustration of giant and man in pencil, p. 23 - A Little Fair at ...

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Poem Drafts

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

January 1972 - June 1975

These files contain manuscript and typescript of poem drafts, including poems published in 'The Dream-House' (1976). Includes: - The Happy Land - In the Company of Saints - You, Sleeping - Riddle...

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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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Notebook 9

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

September 1965- August 1966

This notebook contains notes and drafts, including the following: - 1 sheet with ms note Includes The Rain-Giver placed loose behind front cover - Old acquaintance gone to seed..., pp. 5-7, 12-17 ...

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Notebook 13

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

June 1969-1971

The period covered in this notebook coincides with Crossley-Holland's tenure of the Gregory Fellowship in Poetry at the University of Leeds. Many entries initially pasted into this book have become de...

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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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