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Crossley-Holland, Kevin8
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)5
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Harrison, Tony (1937-)1
Lane, John (1854-1925)1
Lane, John, 1854-19251
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Archive Print Item

The ordeal of the African writer

Larson, Charles R

2001

Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-161) and index.

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Archive Sub-collection

Publications

1963-1992

This subfonds comprises papers relating to the publishing activities of Northern House. Includes draft poems and collections, production papers, correspondence, and reviews.

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Archive File

Contract and Letter

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1964-1966

This file contains a publishing contract for 'A Breathing Space' (1964) signed on behalf of Putnam & Co; and a letter concerning sales of the same collection.

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Draft of The Psalms With Their Spoils (2)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1978-1979

Clean typescript draft of 'The Psalms With Their Spoils', accompanied by a carbon copy ts letter from Silkin to John [i.e. John W.N. Francis] at W.W. Norton & Company, offering the new collection for ...

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Archive Series

Houghton Mifflin

21 February 1974 - 3 December

171 items of correspondence chiefly between Geoffrey Hill and correspondents at Houghton Mifflin publishers, including Jonathan Galassi, concerning the publication of Hill's poetry in the United State...

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Correspondence

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

1995-1997

Correspondence relating to Kevin Crossley-Holland's poetry collection titled 'The Language of Yes' (1996), containing: Personal correspondence; manuscript correspondence from KCH; correspondence with...

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Archive Series

On Approval

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

1960-1961

This series comprises a single file of papers relating to Kevin Crossley-Holland's collection 'On Approval' (1961). Includes 6 letters to Crossley-Holland from Howard Sergeant, editor of Outposts Publ...

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Oenone in January

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

1986-1989

This series comprises a single file of correspondence relating to the publication of Crossley-Holland's poem 'Oenone in January' in pamphlet form, including letters to and from the publishers (Frances...

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Archive Print Item

Without prejudice : one hundred letters from Frederick William Rolfe, Baron Corvo, to John Lane

Rolfe, Frederick William (1860-1913); Lane, John (1854-1925); Woolf, Cecil

1963

Spine title: One hundred letters to John Lane. Two of the facsims. are printed with colored ink on smaller leaves (16 cm. and 23 cm.).

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Penguin Correspondence

Penguin Books

17 February 1961 - 6 June

7 files containing over 160 items of correspondence, chiefly between Geoffrey Hill and correspondents at Penguin publishers. The correspondence includes discussion of the publication of poems by Hill ...

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Typescript and Proofs

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1991-1992

Clean typescript of 'The Lens-Breakers,' including 44 of the 48 poems in the published collection, with ms page numbers. The poems 'Energy is the Basis of Morals' and 'A Psalm Concerning Absence' are ...

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Eleven Poems

Smith, Ken (1938-2003)

c.1964-1965

Papers relating to Ken Smith's Northern House pamphlet 'Eleven Poems'. Includes typescripts of 7 poems in the collection, all with ms markings; an ms draft of the Acknowledgments; a mock-up of the pam...

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