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Total number of records: 20

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Leeds Poetry19
Brotherton Collection18
English Literature18
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive1

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interviews20
correspondence9
clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)3
poets as teachers3
universities and colleges united3
creative writing scholarships,2
poetry readings2
books reviews1
british council1
documentary films1

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Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)5
Brown, Wayne3
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)2
British Council1

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Letters to Jon Silkin

21 October 1975 - 22 October 1979

2 ms letters to Jon Silkin from Gladys Mary Coles. Coles writes in her capacity as poetry critic for BBC Radio Merseyside, and as editor of the poetry magazine 'Meridian.'

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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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Letters to Jon Silkin

4 March 1984

1 typescript letter to Jon Silkin from Giuseppina Lattanzi. The letter includes a list of 11 questions, with some ms annotations/answers in Silkin's hand.

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Letters to Jon Silkin

16 December 1982 - [1983]

1 ts letter from Pat Mackle of Sheffield University student magazine 'Arrows', concerning a proposed article on him. Held with this letter is a copy of the issue of 'Arrows' containing the article (un...

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Letters to Jon Silkin

5 June 1994 - 17 November 1994

3 ms letters from the poet, editor and translator Marco Fazzini to Jon Silkin, one of which is accompanied by a word-processed list of questions for Silkin for an interview planned for 'Risk' magazine...

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Letters to Jon Silkin

14 June 1982 - 13 February 1983

3 typescript letters and 1 ms letter to Jon Silkin from Henry Lyman of radio station WFCR (based at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst). The correspondence relates to interviews/recordings of Si...

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Blunden, Sassoon and Jones

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1963-1965

Items relating to Jon Silkin's contact with First World War poets Edmund Blunden, Siegfried Sassoon and David Jones during his research for 'Out of Battle'. Includes 1 cc ts letter from Silkin to Blun...

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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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Italy

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

ca. 22 June 1987 - 9 April 1990

Papers, chiefly comprising correspondence, relating mainly to arrangements for lecturing and reading trips to Italy by Silkin between ca. 1987 and 1990, including visits to the Universities of Aquila,...

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Naum Gabo to Maurice de Sausmarez

8 May 1969

Typewritten letter from the artist Naum Gabo to Maurice de Sausmarez, enclosing a typescipt with revisions in Gabo's hand, of an interview between de Sausmarez and Gabo for the journal Studio Internat...

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Swithenbank Papers

Brown, Wayne

c.1971-1973

This series contains files of information collected by Wayne Brown from members of the Swithenbank family for his biography of Edna Manley. Includes the following: - 1 file containing 1 manuscript a...

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Interview on Translation

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1983-1992

Typescript letter to Silkin from Lyuben Lyubenov, accompanying a list of 22 questions on translating poetry [late 1983?]; carbon copy typescript of Silkin's responses (3 December 1983); and a photocop...

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