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Total number of records: 6

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Leeds Poetry6
English Literature6
Brotherton Collection6

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SubjectCount
authors societies6
public lending rights (of authors)1
remainders (bookselling)1
literary forgeries and mystifications1
copyright royalties1
correspondence1
authors and publishers1

Count of People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Poetry Society1
Pen (Organization)1

Archive Sub-series

Writers' Action Group Papers

c.1970-1996

This sub-series comprises papers relating to Jon Silkin's involvement with the Writers' Action Group, including the debate about the Public Lending Right, and the establishment of a Northern writers' ...

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Letters to and from Jon Silkin

PEN (Organization)

28 February 1956 - 11 July 1985

Correspondence from various at PEN (mainly PEN English Centre) to Jon Silkin, and carbon copy correspondence from Silkin. Includes 5 typescript letters from Maureen Kilroe to Silkin regarding the incl...

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Letters to and from Jon Silkin

2 June 1956 - 25 June 1997

This file contains correspondence between Jon Silkin and representatives of the Society of Authors, and other correspondence relating to disputes involving Silkin and his publishers in which the Socie...

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Circulars and Announcements

December 1984

Duplicated circular letters and announcements for meetings and events organised by the Writers' Guild of Great Britain. All are dated December 1984.

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Letters to Jon Silkin

Poetry Society

February 1979 - 13 August 1997

1 photocopied ts circular letter regarding the appointment of Brian Mitchell as General Secretary of the Society (8 May 1979); 1 ms letter to Silkin from the manager of the Poetry Society Bookshop; 3 ...

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Letters to Jon Silkin, Etc.

1985-1997

2 ts letters from the Royal Society of Literature to Jon Silkin. Accompanied by 1 ts circular letter, 1 invitation card, a copy of the Royal Society of Literature reports for 1983-4 and 1984-5, a copy...

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