Jon Silkin Papers

Special Collections, General Subject Manuscripts Collection

Jon Silkin, 1930-1997
Papers, 1952-1956
2 boxes (1 foot)
Ms. Group 32

Biographical note: British poet, and poetry magazine editor. His Selected Poems were published in 1980 and in a revised edition, 1994. He was founding co-editor of Stand (1952-1997). Authored and edited many volumes of poetry. Teacher of English for foreign students at the University of Leeds, England. Gregory Fellow in poetry. (Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2003. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: The Gale Group. 2003. http://www.galenet.com/servlet/BioRC)

Scope and contents: Correspondence, and manuscripts of poems and some prose writings. Many of the manuscripts are working drafts with many versions of the same poem. Poems are often written on the versos of correspondence and may not be identified in the list of contents. Some of the correspondence relates to Stand and to publication of Silkin's works. Correspondents include Dannie Abse, Desmond Elliott, John Heath-Stubbs, C. Day Lewis, Roy Fuller, and Jon Silkin, Jr.

Provenance: Donated by the author to the University of Florida through Gene Baro, ca. 1956.

Copyright: Rights belong to the authors. Silkin's last know agent was John Smith, 52 Floral Street, London WC2, England.

BOX 1: Poems

Title/First Line	Folder Number	Description
Abate his anger...	4	Ts. 32 lines
...afraid he was dead...	16	Ms. 56 lines
All men, old men with wisdom deep as lies...	26	Seven Ts. versions (Ms. corrections, deletions, and additions
Altogether in the sun...	30	Ts.18 lines
Am naked, Father...	3	Ms. 16 lines (corrections & deletions)
And at whose thigh unrobed I yet had prayed...	10	Ms. 17 lines (corrections & deletions)
And I am Greek...	3	Ms. 9 lines (corrections & deletions)
And I turned from the inner heart...	10	Ms. 24 (corrections & deletions) Published in Two Freedoms.
As she awoke. I have seen pain...	41	Ts. 10 lines
As we were sitting round the wooden table...	15	Ms. (corrections & deletions)
At first I thought of hope	4, 19	Ts. 42 lines
Ballad to a hungry author...	23	Ts. 28 lines
Belladonna	6	Ts. 13 lines
Between that noise...	3	Ms. 15 lines (corrections & deletions)
Between what I know...	21	Ts. 9 lines
The Blindness	24	Ts. 53 lines (Ms. corrections & deletions)
Bowl	24	Ms. 8 lines (corrections)
The Buddha is an ample form of Christ...	19	Two Ts. versions (Ms. corrections & deletions) One Ms. version (corrections)
By the back door of the wilderness...	6	Three Ms. (corrections & deletions) Possibly another version of : Here is the wilderness of you and me...
Can this be us...	3	Ts. 43 lines (incomplete)
Care for animals	22	Ms. 20 lines (corrections & deletions) Published in The Peaceable Kingdom under the title: "Caring for Animals."
Carved	21	Ts. 20 lines
The Charity	36	Two Ms. versions, and seven Ts. versions (Ms. corrections & deletions) Some versions begin: "Suddenly these poems...." Others have title: "A Gift of Charity."
The choked sound in the organ pipe...	37	Three Ms. versions (corrections)
Claim you as a victim...	4	Ts.16 lines (Ms. corrections & deletions)
Clay--Four related poems	31	Four related poems. A plan is explained by the author in a Ts. preface.
		I. Because this is the clay... Eight Ts. versions (Ms. corrections and deletions
		II. Dialogue between Man and Clay. Two Ms. versions; Five Ts. versions
		III. Coiled in the playful frail entanglement... Two Ts. versions (Ms. corrections)
		IV. I was drugged urged upon a bank of clay...One Ms. version; Four Ts. versions
Close to the objects of the household world...	13	One Ms. version; Five Ts. versions. Ms. corrections and deletions.
The Coffee Drinker	21	Ts. 16 lines (Ms. additions)
Cold is the world...	37	Ms. 21 lines, with corrections
Consider the sly avarice of nature...	21	Ts. 38 lines (Ts. deletions)
The cunning of an age	23	Ts. 64 lines. Published in The Peaceable Kingdom.
The dead leaves...	6	Ts. 39 lines (Ms. corrections)
Dear wound, while in my room...	24	Ts. 45 lines (Corrections and deletions)
Death of the bird	27	Ts. 44 lines (Ms. corrections). Published in The Two Freedoms, 1958, and in Poems, New and Selected, 1966.
A Death to Us	20	Ms. 14 lines (corrections). Published in The Peaceable Kingdom.
The desert rears up its bulky trunk-grass	1	Two Ms. versions (corrections)
Do not flower...	16	Ms. 16 lines (corrections; incomplete)
Earthbound	23	Ts. 21 lines (Ms. corrections)
Easter Day: Guilt	28	Two Ms. versions; fourteen Ts. versions (Ms. corrections and deletions). Variations in title: Easter Day; Guilt Over Easter; Easter: Guilt; Easter: God's Guilt; The Misalliance; The Accusation
Enduring with the elements...	21	Ms. 14 lines (corrections)
The Entire Dance	32	Ts. 90 lines (the seven last verses in Ts. version with ms. corrections)
Extinguished into the dark...	6	Ms. 58 lines (corrections and deletions) Possibly a version of "Furnished Lives" published in the Two Freedoms.
Feed with your jealous hand...	35	One Ms. 21 lines; three Ts. versions (Ms. corrections and deletions)
A few days after...	2	Ms. 47 lines (corrections and deletions). All poems cancelled by a crossing line.
The Final Solution	4	Ts. 23 lines (corrections)
The finding of love...	23	Ts. 28 lines (Ms. corrections)
For every creature...	21	Ts. 10 lines (Ms. corrections and deletions)
For he was like a tree...	3	Ms. 9 lines (corrections)
The Forests (On the occasion of Dr. Schweitzer's visit to England)	24	Ts. 42 lines
The Forsaken	33	Three Ms. versions. Seven Ts. versions. (Corrections & and deletions)
For two children	29	Two Ms. versions. Five Ts. versions (Ms. corrections and deletions) Published in The Two Freedoms.
From the Inside of the Wilderness	24	Ts. 22 lines
Fruit walked smooth...	16	Ms. 43 lines (corrections and deletions)
Furnished Lives	12	One Ms. version. Three Ts. versions (Ms. corrections and deletions) Published in The Two Freedoms and later in Poems, New and Selected.
Guilt	31	Ts. 33 lines (Ms. corrections)
Here is our joy...	10	Ts. 15 lines (Ms. additions & corrections)
Here is the wilderness of you and me...	5	Three Ms. versions and three Ts. versions. (Ms. corrections and deletions)
His world	31	Ts. 16 lines
How are you so sure I will...	23	Ts. and Ms. versions. Corrections.
Huge, the...of there lives...	16	Ms. 17 lines (corrections and deletions)
Hymn to the solid world	21	Ts. 34 lines
I am dizi[?] ...	3	Ms. 5 lines (corrections and deletions)
I am of peace...	3	Ms. 19 lines (deletions)
I am reminded of it every time...	24	Ts. 11 lines (Ms. corrections; poems canceled by crossed line)
I am that kind of crier...	19	Two Ts. versions (Ms. corrections and additions)
I am unleashed and sail among...	12	Ts. 35 lines (first 24 lines canceled with crossing line) One Ts. version (Ms. corrections and deletions). Two Ms. versions
I came from Egypt...	21	Ts. 8 lines (Ms. corrections)
I do not care now if I sing or die	37	Ms. 12 lines
I dug his spinning word into the earth...	28	Ts. 24 lines
If you could reach that ice...	3	Ms. 15 lines (corrections & deletions)
I hear the actions of the crying birds...	9	Ms. 13 lines (corrections & deletions)
Image share a ship with me	3	Ms. 16 lines (corrections & deletions)
In this city, huge as world is large...	16	Ms. 52 lines (corrections & deletions)
I see no clearance...	9	Three Ts. versions (Ms. corrections)
I see the lower reaches of the smoky Thames...	38	Three Ms. versions (corrections and deletions.) Two Ts. versions of the second part (Ms. corrections
I, the light whose mornings dart...	30 4 24	One Ms. version; three Ts. versions (Ms. corrections and deletions.) Three Ts. versions (incomplete first part) Three Ts. versions (incomplete final part) Some versions in folder 4 and 24 have the title "Killing My Past."
I turn for the stern truth...	6	Ms. 5 lines (corrections)
I was born in the desert...	1	Two Ms. versions (corrections) Two Ts. versions enlarged.
I was drugged, I was urged on a bank of clay...	28	Ts. 25 lines
It is without affirmative I mark that day...	10	Ms. 61 lines (corrections
Jagged you are...	1	Ts. 23 lines
Killing My Past	4 24	See also: I, the light whose morning dart...Folder 30
Let my despair be your nourishment...	22	Four Ms. versions; one Ts. version (Ms. corrections, deletions, and additions)
Magnificence of light	24	Ts. 15 lines
Man's life is like the doors...	20	Ms. 8 lines (corrections and deletions
Miscellaneous fragments	43
Motive for the grace which moves across...	20	Ms. 28 lines (corrections and deletions)
Mutually Bleed	3	Ms. 24 lines
My dear, this is a letter to you hear...	10	Ms. 26 lines (corrections and deletions)
My unwarranted...	20	Ms. 7 lines (deletions)
Never any dying	24	Two Ms. versions, plus versions of separate verses. Published in The Peaceable Kingdom.
No civilized music here...	38	Ts. 25 lines
Noah: His voice	12	One Ms. version. Four Ts. versions (Ms. corrections, deletions, and additions)
Nothing can be taken from you...	10	Ms. 10 lines (corrections and deletions)
...Of that dark humbly...	8	Two Ms. versions (corrections and deletions), both incomplete)
Or else all devils fade out of the air...	23	Ts. version and Ms. version (corrections)
The Outside	22	Ms. 33 lines (corrections and deletions
Paler Spirit	21	Ts. 10 lines (Ms. additions & corrections)
The passion of their hands...	21	Ts. 34 lines (Ms. corrections and deletions)
The Patron (for Cyril Ray)	9	Two Ts. versions (Ms. corrections & additions) Three Ms. versions
A Poem in the Occasion of Israel Being Attacked by Egypt	21	Ts. 37 lines (Ms. corrections and deletions)
Prophetic History	6	Ts. 18 lines
Psalm 47	21	Ts. 21 lines
Psalm 137	21	Ts. 24 lines
Psalm 23	21	Ts. 17 lines
The Quality of Desert	4	Ts. note by author explaining the composition of the poems. Final Ts. of the complete poem composed of six poems:
Poem I	4	Three Ms. versions (corrections and deletions). Two Ts. versions, complete plus partial versions, plus various versions of different verses.
Poem III	4	Two Ms. and four Ts. versions (Ms. corrections and deletions, plus partial versions.)
Poem IV	4	Five Ts. versions (Ms. corrections, deletions, and additions)
Poem V	4	Six Ts. versions (Ms. corrections)
Poem VI	4	Three partial Ms. versions. Two Ts. versions. Ms. corrections and deletions. Partial Ts. versions
Raised and taunted...	16	Ms. 15 lines (corrections and deletions)
The responsibility	39	In four parts:
I. I am a burnt ship...	39	Thirteen Ts. versions (Ms. corrections, deletions, and additions)
II. I travel on the least breath of the sea...	40	Eight Ts. versions. Three Ms. versions (corrections, additions; some fragments)
III. If I were a sailor...	41	Eight Ts. versions. One Ms. version. (Corrections and deletions)
IV. If you want to journey for ever and ever...	42	Five Ts. versions. One Ms. version. (Corrections and deletions)
The Return	14	One Ms. version. Four Ts. versions. Corrections and deletions.
A ride to Jerusalem	2	Ts. 49 lines (Ms. corrections and deletions)
The right (?) perpetual soil my people plant...	16	Ms. 17 lines (corrections and deletions)
The Rookery Incident	5	Ts. 30 lines (Translated from Italian?)
The Rose Window	4	Ts. 20 lines
The Runner	21	Ts. 21 lines (Ms. corrections)

Say you are the drum stick...	9	Two Ts. versions. One Ms. version. corrections and deletions
See, my friends...	3	Ms. 6 lines (corrections)
Sentimental meeting place	21	Ts. 18 lines (a line deleted)
She steps over the grass...	3	Ms. 19 lines (poem deleted with crossing line)
Since our loquacious ghosts...	6	Ms. 5 lines (corrections)
Sir, like courage	21	Ts. 14 lines (canceled with crossed lines)
The sky. I had stones smooth with...	10	Ms. 34 lines (deletions)
Slip by past...	13	One Ms. version of Coming, we fear (corrections and deletions)
The Small Garden where the Herbs grow	3	Ms. 14 lines (corrections and deletions)
Solace	4	Ts. 10 lines
Some Industrial Burning	17	One Ms. version. One Ts. version (corrections)
Sonnet: Inside	24	Ts. 14 lines
A Sonnet of the Holy Streets	24	Ts. 14 lines
Sonnet: To Susan Benson	21	Ts. 14 lines (Ms. corrections)
A Space in the Air	2	Ms. 15 lines incomplete. Published in The Peaceable Kingdom and Poems, New and Selected
Standing Still	27	Ts. 16 lines
Stanzas (6)	3	Ms. 15 lines
Suicide	4	Ts. 49 lines (Ms. corrections and deletions. Incomplete?)
Tangible as thorns...	6	Ms. 15 lines (corrections)
The Theme	23	One Ms. version. Two Ts. versions (Ms. corrections, deletions, and additions)
Then...a frozen dance claps...	16	Ms. 10 lines (corrections). Version of the poem "The Dark Drinkard" published in The Two Freedoms.
Then what a frigid dance...	20	Ms. 16 lines (corrections)
There are four deserts...	1	Ts. 10 lines (Ms. addition of 23 more canceled lines; fragment)
There are things which should never...	8	Ms. 23 lines (entirely canceled by a crossed line)
There were trips said to me...	4	Ms. 18 lines (corrections and deletions)
Therefore lie certain in the ancient wood...	1	One Ms. version. Two Ts. versions. (Ms. corrections and deletions) (I, II, IV, may be forming part of one poem.)
The Third Death	26	Ts. 60 lines. Published in The Two Freedoms, 1958.
The Thirsting	17	Ms. 73 lines (corrections and deletions)
This I have seen, the dull expression...	8	Ms. 53 lines (corrections and deletions)
This is his No...	21	Ts. 9 lines (Ms. corrections)
This Resurrection	32	One Ms. version. Six Ts. versions. Ms. corrections and deletions. Published in The Two Freedoms.
This shrill and icy room of hell (?)	8	Two Ms. versions (corrections and deletions.)
To a Dead Socialist Lady	17	Ts. 27 lines. One verse crossed out)
To Michael Riviere, for his second son, Thomas	34	Two Ms. versions. Four Ts. versions. (Ms. corrections and deletions.) Published in The Two Freedoms.
Today from my heart new trees grow...	23	Two Ts. versions (Ms. corrections)
A tragic world endures a tragic pain...	1	Four Ms. versions. Two Ts. versions (Ms. corrections and deletions)
Tree. I knew my land...	20	Ms. 5 lines (corrections and deletions)
The Two Freedoms	11	Two Ms. versions. Three Ts. versions. Ms. corrections and deletions. Published The Two Freedoms and Poems, New and Selected.
Two listless dried contraceptives...	18	One Ms. version. One Ts. version (Ms. corrections)
The Two Silences (After Lorenza Mazetti and her film Together)	7	Two Ms. versions. Three Ts. versions. corrections and deletions
Unchain my soul...	3	Ms. 9 lines (all the poems deleted with a crossing line)
A version of Moses	25	Ts. Three parts (Ms. corrections)
We are five stars...	21	Ts. 17 lines (Ms. corrections and deletions)
We must always beware...	4	Ts. 22 lines
The wedding thought	22	Two Ms. versions (corrections and deletions
What do I care if...	16	Ms. 11 lines (corrections and deletions)
What we ought never to speak...	8	Three Ms. versions (corrections and deletions)
When first I saw the rivers...	27 21	Two Ms. versions.
When I had entered that house of deep shades...	35 21	Ts. version. Ms. version
When you were but a stone...	2	Ts. 32 lines (Ms. corrections and deletions)
Which protracted beyond measurement...	3	Ms. 4 lines (corrections)
Who amongst us when the chill wind screams...	18	Three Ms. versions. One Ts. version (Ms. corrections and deletions)
Who amongst you could find the arms...	21	Ts. 15 lines (Ms. corrections)
Who has possessed her...	8	Ms. 101 lines (deletions); incomplete.
Who lacks the...	16	Ms. 9 lines (corrections and deletions
Within the pasture of my skull...	21	Ts. 21 lines (Ms. corrections and deletions)
Without doubt it will come again...	24	Ms. 13 lines (corrections and deletions
Yet not that easily; nor all with ease...	23	Ts. 43 lines (Ms. corrections and deletions)
You smile and I must go into the dark...	25	Three Ms. versions (corrections and deletions.)
Your paper feet...	21	Ts. 7 lines (Ms. corrections

Box 2: Prose Writing and Correspondence

Book Reviews

Prose folder 1	Ackerly	My God Tulip	Ts. with Ms. Corrections, 2p.
Prose folder 1	Durrell, Gerald	Title not identified	Ts. with Ms. Corrections, 1p.
Prose folder 1	Olsson, Jan Olof	Welcome to Tombstone	Ts. with corrections, 1p.
Prose folder 2		Reader's report on unidentified books	Ts. with corrections, 2p.
Prose folder 3		Review of a play by Dannie Abse; the third book of poems of Thomas Blackburn; the new book of Philip Larkin.	Ts., 3p.
Prose folder 1	Thornton, Francis B.	Glory at Sea	Ts. with corrections, 2p.

Prose folder 5	Barker, George (Essay On)	Ms., 6p.
Prose folder 4	From the poet's position	Ts. first draft, 2p.
Prose folder 4	From the poet's position	Ts. 2d. Ms. corrections, 2p.
Prose folder 6	Grahe, W.S. (Poet)	Mss., 6p. & 3 half p.
Prose folder 8	On historical novel	Ts. with Ms. corrections, 2p.
Prose folder 9	On Jewish writing and Jewish poets	Ts., 14p. discontinued and incomplete. (On back of pages, short story [Naomi]
Prose folder 10	Thomas, Dylan	Ms. corrections, 7p.
Prose folder 11	Thomas, Dylan	Ms. 2p.
Prose folder 7	The Two Edens (Essay on Edwin Muir and De la Mare)	Ms. 13p., Ts. 4p. ( draft of Edwin Muir essay and a page of De La Mare's)

Miscellaneous Prose

Prose folder 12	Prose--Fragments
Prose folder 15	Town and Country School, an Anthology, 1956	Typed prologue, 2p.
Prose folder 13	Readings with explanations of "Son & Father" (poem) by C. Day Lewis, "The Carpenter" by Clifford Dyment, and "The Victim of Aulis" by Dannie Abse	Ms. 3p.

Short Stories

Prose folder 14	Anderson (Mrs.) paused . . .	Ts., 2p., ms., 5p (partially in Silkin's hand)
Prose folder 14	Dol-au-Cothy	Ts. with Ms. corrections, 6p.
Prose folder 16	[Naomi, central figure]	Ts. with corrections, incomplete, 5p. Xerox copy-Original on back of his essay On Jewish Writing.
Prose folder 17	The River Runs On	Ms. 14p. (incomplete)
Prose folder 17	The River Runs On	Galleys, 3p. Incomplete
Prose folder 16	Unidentified fragments	Ms., 5 p.

Correspondence

Correspondence is filed chronologically)

[Abse], Dennis
ALS to Jon Silkin, London
November 1954
2p. 20 1/2 x 25 cm.
(Correspondence folder 11)

Sending a typewritten copy of "The Victim." He has reviewed The Jewish Chronicle for Poetry & Poverty. He has suggested Silkin and others to Robert Armstrong for a reading.

Botta, David
TLS to Jon Silkin, Cambridge
December 3, 1953
1p. 25 1/2 x 20 1/2 cm.
(Correspondence folder 17 )

Communication that Silkin has won the second prize in poetry competition organized by Varsity, the undergraduate newspaper.

Chatto & Windus see Lewis, Cecil Day

Elliott, Desmond
TLS to Jon Silkin, London
December 3, 1953
2p. 20 1/2 x 17 1/2 cm.
(Correspondence folder 16)

He has sent Silkin's and Fox's poems to Mr. Church. He finds them of great poetic value, but Hutchinson cannot take the risk of publishing poetry. Advises sending them to Erica Marx of Hand & Flower Press.

Fuller, Roy
ALS to Jon Silkin, London
January 18, 1956
1p. 26 x 20 cm.
(Correspondence folder 2)

Original scheme to put up to the Arts Council for helping new and existing magazine did not go through. If it goes through it will only be for magazines that are starting. Stand will not be damaged with the appearance of new ones.

Fuller, Roy
ALS to Jon Silkin, London
January 12, 1955
1p. 26 x 20 cm.
(Correspondence folder 9)

He will be able to help new magazines only through the Arts Council. Asking for financial information about Stand.

Gainsborough, Richard
ALS (copy) to Jon Silkin, London
n.d.
1p. 23 x 20 cm.
(Correspondence folder 20). Original in Poems, folder 1.

About job.

Hart-Davis, Rupert
TLS to Jon Silkin, London
September 16, 1952
1p. 25 x 20 cm.
(Correspondence folder 19)

Struck by the quality of his poems, but impossible to publish them for risk of losing money.

Heath-Stubbs, John
ALS to Jon Silkin, London
n.d.
2p. 17 1/2 x 13 1/2 cm.
(Correspondence folder 20)

Enclosing a poem that Time & Tide will not publish. He leaves the remainder of the article up to Silkin.

Heath-Stubbs, John
ALS to Jon Silkin, London
n.d.
2p. 17 1/2 x 11 1/2
(Correspondence folder 20)

Authorizing him to make three cuts in his poems. He, himself , has made essential cuts for including it in an appendix to the Triumph of the Muse.

Hutchinson and Co. see Elliot, Desmond

Lewis, Cecil Day
TLS to Jon Silkin, London, England
February 20, 1956
2p. 25 1/2 x 20 1/2 cm.
(Correspondence folder 1)

As one of the directors of Chatto & Windus, he sends his criticism of a Jon Silkin novel. He writes novels as if they were poems.

Lewis, Cecil Day
TLS to Jon Silkin, London, England
December 16, 1955
2p. 25 1/2 x 20 1/2 cm.
(Correspondence folder 4)

Criticism of book of poems. Why it was rejected. Great potentiality as poet.

Lewis, Cecil Day
ALS to Jon Silkin, London, England
December 2, 1954
2p. 20 x 13 cm.
(Correspondence folder 10)

Read the new poems he has sent. Needs to brood over them. Will keep the poems from the original, that they (the publishers) liked most.

Lewis, Cecil Day
ALS to Jon Silkin, London, England
September 9, 1954
2p. 20 x 13 cm.
(Correspondence folder 13)

Read the new selection of his poems several times. Some are uncharacteristic of him. He will pass them to his co-expert.

Lewis, Cecil Day
ALS to Jon Silkin, London, England
March 25, 1954
1p. 20 x 12 1/2 cm.
(Correspondence folder 14)

Thanking him for additional poems. Enough to make a book. Wants to see him about a contract.

Lewis, Cecil Day
TLS to Jon Silkin, London, England
January 5, 1954
2p. 25 1/2 x 20 1/2 cm.
(Correspondence folder 15)

Includes criticism of Silkin's poems by himself and another member of Chatto. Great confidence in Silkin as a poet.

Poetry & Poverty see Abse, Dannie

Silkin, Jon
TL (incomplete and copy) to Marguerite Caetani, London
n.d.
1p. 23 x 20 cm.
(Correspondence folder 20)

Explanation about his poem--"The Quality of Desert"
Original in Poems-Box 1, Folder 4

Silkin, Jon
ALS to Carne--Ross, London
n.d.
1p. 21 x 17 cm.
(Correspondence folder 20)

Sending "Skeleton" of the proposed program for "Poems of Anger and Protest"

Silkin, Jon
T1 to Carne--Ross, London
n.d.
1p. 25 x 20 cm.
(Correspondence folder 20)

Sending three poems. Explanation about them.

Silkin, Jon
T1 (incomplete and copy) to Mr. Evans, London
n.d.
1p. 25 x 20 cm.
(Correspondence folder 19 )

Criticism of Mr. Evans' poem. Original is Poems, 19.

Silkin, Jon
TLS to Roy Fuller, Victoria, London
January 16,. 1956
1p. 25 1/2 x. 20 cm.
(Correspondence folder 3 )

He cannot give any information about Stand 's financial workings. Afraid he will use to start another journal. Asking for grant for Stand.

Silkin, Jon
TLS to Ron, [London]
n.d.
1p. 20 x 25 cm.
(Correspondence folder 20)

Sending the story promised and three poems. Original in Poems, 19.

Silkin, Jon
TLS to Peter [Snow] London
November 24, 1955
1p. 25 1/2 x 20 cm.
(Correspondence folder 6)

Giving plot for a ballet he will do with Peter Snow. Enclosed is a copy of a letter sent by Silkin & Snow to the choreographer's for the ballet they are planning.

Silkin, John Sr.
TLS (copy) to Jon Silkin, London
October 7, 1954
1p. 25 x 20 cm.
(Correspondence folder 12)

Advising him to take a job. Original in Poems, Folder 1.

Silkin, John Sr.
ALS (copy) to Jon Silkin, London
March 5, 1953
1p. 26 x 18 1/2 cm.
(Correspondence folder 18)

Inviting him for a get together to discuss Jon's problems. Original in Poems, Folder 20

[Snow] Peter
ALS to Jon Silkin, London
December 1, 1955
1p. 18 x 14 cm.
(Correspondence folder 5)

About letter he has typed and wants to be signed by Silkin to appear more objective and stronger about choreography for ballet. Enclosed is the letter to Ninettes (?)

Srigley, Michael
TLS (copy) to Jon Silkin, Dublin
March 3, 1955
1p. 25 x 20 cm.
(Correspondence folder 8)

Comments about Silkin's ideas on Pound. Proposing a meeting. Original in Poems, Folder 3.

Taylor, Derek
ALS (copy) to Jon Silkin, London
August 24, 1955
1p. 28 x 24 cm.
(Correspondence folder )

Wishing to meet him for a chat to hear more about Stand. Original in Poems, Folder 36.

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