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Total number of records: 8

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Brotherton Collection8
English Literature8
Leeds Poetry8

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correspondence8
poets as teachers2
authors and publishers1
booksreviews1
clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)1
flannan islands lighthouse disaster, flannan isles, scotland,1
forums (discussion and debate)1
french poetry translations into1
fresnel lenses1
interviews1

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Crossley-Holland, Kevin5
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)1
Brown, Wayne1
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)1
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn1

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Correspondence

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

1988-1989

These files contain correspondence relating to Crossley-Holland's article on the Aran Islands. There are 16 items of correspondence, including letters to and from various Editors of 'Islands' magazine...

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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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Correspondence

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

1970-1979

These files contain 141 items of correspondence relating to Crossley-Holland's travel book 'Pieces of Land', including letters to and from publishers Victor Gollancz (in particular Gollancz Director G...

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Research Materials

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

c.1970-1972

These files contain research materials for Crossley-Holland's travel book 'Pieces of Land', grouped as follows: - Alderney: photocopied printed material (12 ff.) - Eigg: chiefly ms notes (52 ff.), ...

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To a Lighthouse: Drafts and Background Information

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1990

Ms and typescript drafts of and workings towards the poem 'To a Lighthouse', including drafts titled 'Finding a place' and 'Finding my own place'. The drafts are undated, but Silkin's use of the backs...

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Scripts 30-59

Brown, Wayne

c.1971-1973

This file contains the following items: - 5 page transcript of a modern art catalogue containing works by Edna Manley. - 7 page transcript of notes from the book The Arts of an Island by Ivy Baxter...

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Poem Drafts

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

1957-1965

These files contain 5 envelopes marked 'A Mess of Poems'. They contain 163 ff of manuscripts and typescripts, including drafts of the following poems: - On Seeing Ely Cathedral - That Place is Not ...

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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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