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Total number of records: 131

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Archives130
Books and printed items1

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Brotherton Collection130
English Literature128
Leeds Poetry128

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correspondence131
clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)30
authors and publishers15
books reviews10
proofs (printing)10
poets as teachers7
copyright6
photographs6
lectures and lecturing england cambridge5
book covers4

Top 10: People and organisations

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Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)62
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)28
Crossley-Holland, Kevin15
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)3
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn3
Brown, Wayne2
Amey, Michael1
Barker, George (1913-1991)1
Brown, Megan1
Heath-Stubbs, John (1918-2006)1

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From 1900130
From 20001

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Up to 1999127
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Archive Collection

John Heath-Stubbs Archive

Heath-Stubbs, John (1918-2006)

1948-2007

This collection includes manuscript and typescript drafts and poems, examples of published works, an audio recording and correspondence by John Heath-Stubbs. The majority of the poems and drafts are a...

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Correspondence and Personalia

Kirkup, James (1918-2009)

c.1956-2000

Correspondence, both personal and relating to Kirkup's literary work; and miscellaneous items collected by Kirkup.

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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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Drafts, Proofs and Artwork

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

1999

These files contain drafts towards 'The New Exeter Book of Riddles,' and examples of Simon Drew's artwork. Includes sample book covers; a small amount of correspondence between Drew, Lawrence Sail and...

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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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Wayne Brown Archive

Brown, Wayne

1911-1980

Comprises: manuscript and typescript drafts of poems collected in Brown's first poetry collection, On the Coast (1972); manucript and typescript drafts of miscellaneous poems by Brown dating to the 19...

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Great War Exhibitions

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1979-1985

Photocopied information on Isaac Rosenberg and the Slade School of Art (for/from an exhibition?); catalogue for the Artists and the Great War exhibition of pictures from the Imperial War Museum collec...

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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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List and Correspondence

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1970

Ms lists in a hand other than Silkin's on First World War Poets, collection titles and publishers, and other poets of the First World War period; and a small amount of correspondence relating to Silki...

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Hamann

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1990s

This file contains articles collected by Hill on the philosopher Johann Georg Hamann. Includes: - typescript of a translation of Hamann's Metacritique on the Purism of Reason by Kenneth Haynes, with...

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