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Total number of records: 43

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection43
English Literature43
Leeds Poetry43

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
poets as teachers43
universities and colleges australia9
poetry readings united states8
tours australia8
correspondence7
universities and colleges united7
schools5
clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)4
creative writing scholarships,4
poetry readings3

Count of People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)11
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)6
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn6
Clark, Leonard1

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Lectures and Lecturing

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1950-1970

This series contains copies of some of the lectures Thomas Blackburn gave as a teacher, and pther educational literature collected by Blackburn.

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Town and Country School

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1956-1957

Papers relating to Jon Silkin's teaching work at the Town and Country School, London. Includes 3 ts letters to Silkin from the Headmaster, M.D.C. Graham; Silkin's ms records of his earnings; copies of...

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Japan

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1991-1994

Papers collected by Jon Silkin during his appointment as a lecturer in contemporary British and American literature at the University of Tsukuba [Tsukuba Daigaku], Japan. Silkin took up his visiting p...

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Letters to Jon Silkin

29 September 1981 - 9 December 1983

Letters to Jon Silkin from various correspondents at the University of Cincinnati (Ohio). Includes 5 typescript letters from Jim Cummins, curator of the Elliston Poetry Collection; 2 ts letters from R...

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Australian Fellowship Papers 2

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1974

Papers largely relating to lectures and writing undertaken by Jon Silkin during his 1974 tour of Australia. Includes ms and annotated typescript drafts of Silkin's memoir 'The Identifiable Culture'; m...

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Notebook 28

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

1956

Notebook with teaching notes and drafts of poems and plays. The notebook is dated 'May 1956,' and contains the following: - Draft of untitled play (fol. 1-11. This same play appears as Out of the Se...

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Notebook 19

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1945-1977

Teaching notebook including critical notes on the English method, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Percy Bysshe Shelley, tragedy and Thomas Hardy. Drafts by Blackburn contained in the notebook are as foll...

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Scandinavian Tour

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1979

Papers relating to Jon Silkin's British Council tour of Scandinavia. Includes Silkin's ms notes on the tour/arrangements; itineraries for Silkin's time in Norway and at Agder Distrikthøgskole; photoc...

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Letters to Jon Silkin

30 May 1974 - 8 July 1974

2 typescript letters to Jon Silkin from Carole Ferrier of the University of Queensland, Brisbane. The correspondence relates to Silkin's 3-month lecture tour of Australia in 1974.

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Letters to and from Jon Silkin

7 July 1980 - 6 April 1995

1 typescript letter to Jon Silkin from August G. Benson at Michigan State University concerning his appointment as visiting lecturer; 1 ts fax from Cheryllee Finney of The Centennial Review to Silkin;...

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Letters to and from Jon Silkin

23 February 1979- 7 March 1979

2 typescript letters to Jon Silkin from Peter Bilton at the University of Oslo; and 1 carbon copy ts letter from Silkin to Bilton. The correspondence relates to a tour of Scandinavia by Silkin, suppor...

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Appointments

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1940-1973

This series contains documents relating to Thomas Blackburn's career aside from being an author and poet.

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