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Total number of records: 63

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Leeds Poetry62
Brotherton Collection61
English Literature60

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correspondence63
clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)13
authors and publishers7
books reviews7
proofs (printing)7
copyright5
book covers4
book proposals4
literary agents3
contracts2

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Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)26
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)19
Crossley-Holland, Kevin6

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From 190062
From 20001

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Up to latest4

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Correspondence

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

1989-1991

These files contain 42 items of correspondence relating to Crossley-Holland's British Council-funded trip to Australia. Includes letters to and from the British Council, including copies of Crossley-H...

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Grotius

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1994

This file comprises a single typescript letter from Geoffrey Hill to Peter [Walker?] regarding Bonhoeffer's German translation of Grotius (3 August 1994).

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Palimpsest Letter

c.1973

Typescript letter from Frederick Grubb to John Heath-Stubbs, with ms annotations and corrections, regarding his correcting proofs for 'Artorius'. The letter is headed 'Palimpsest.'

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Donne

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1971-1980

Photocopied excerpts from Wilbur Sanders's 'John Donne's Poetry' (1971); clippings of review article 'Denis Donoghue celebrates the quartercentenary of John Donne' ('Spectator', 18 November 1972), a l...

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Correspondence to Roland John

6 Sep 1989 - 10 Apr 1993

Four letters and two postcards from James Kirkup to Roland John. Correspondence regarding 'Outposts', with a typescript copy of three contemporary Haiku by Takahashi Mutsuo translated by Kirkup.

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Millay Permissions

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1989-1990

Papers relating to Silkin's proposed use of a quotation from Edna St Vincent Millay's poem 'Conscientious Objector' in a reprint of the 'Penguin Book of First World War Poetry.' Includes a memo from J...

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Proofs of Canaan

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1996

This file contains a set of corrected page proofs for Geoffrey Hill's collection 'Canaan'. The proofs are dated 16/5/96. The proofs are accompanied by a colour proof of the book cover; 1 typescript le...

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Exhibition Correspondence

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1959

Typescript and ms lists of people, libraries, booksellers, and newspapers and periodicals to whom the exhibition catalogue had been sent; requests for copies of the catalogue from various corresponden...

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Mixed Correspondence (3)

October 1989 - 2 July 1996

File of mixed correspondence relating to Northern House business activities. Includes a typescript letter to Silkin from Roger Garfitt offering further poems for publication, and Silkin's cc ts respon...

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Reprint Permissions

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1986-1987

Correspondence to and from publishers, literary executors and copyright holders regarding permissions to reprint quotations, etc. in the Routledge reprint of 'Out of Battle' (July 1986-January 1987), ...

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Letter to Geoffrey Hill

1992

1 typescript letter from Lawrence Goodman to Geoffrey Hill regarding the Book of Common Prayer, in particular the history of the inclusion of the 'prayer for all conditions of men' (20 September 1992)...

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Auden: Cambridge Review

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1981-1982

This file contains items relating to Geoffrey Hill's review of Edward Mendelson's 'Early Auden', published in the 'Cambridge Review' (26 February 1982). Includes a compliments slip from the 'Cambridge...

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