D. M. Thomas: Poetry notebook: drafts for 'Numen' and 'This Other England'
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Black ring-bound notebook of D. M. Thomas's 'drafts and ideas' for poems, including 'This Other England' and the autobiographical poem 'Numen'. With one loose folio. The contents of this file were originally held in a folder labelled 'poem drafts + ideas'.
D. M. Thomas: Correspondence: Viking Press, part 3 of 3
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Correspondence from the Viking Press of New York, involving mainly D. M. Thomas's editor Amanda Vaill and Constance B. Sayre, marketing director, regarding Thomas's novel 'The White Hotel' and occasionally other works. With some sample pages, copies of press reviews, and a poster advertising wo...
D. M. Thomas: translations and adaptations of Anna Akhmatova's poetry
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Papers relating to D. M. Thomas's work on the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) and an adaptation of her poem 'Requiem' for broadcast on BBC Radio 4: programmes, scripts, drafts of scripts and a list of corrections to scripts, press cuttings, and a pamphlet concerning the Society for Cultu...
D. M. Thomas: Correspondence with institutions and publishers, part 1 of 3
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Correspondence sent to D. M. Thomas mainly by universities, publishers, literary societies and festival organisers, generally regarding speaking engagements and the publication of articles, but also including some personal correspondence and copies of Thomas's own letters. The first of three par...
D. M. Thomas: Correspondence with institutions and publishers, part 2 of 3
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Correspondence sent to D. M. Thomas mainly by universities, publishers, literary societies and festival organisers, generally regarding speaking engagements and the publication of articles, but also including some personal correspondence, and copies of Thomas's own letters. With extracts from ty...
D. M. Thomas: Correspondence with institutions and publishers, part 3 of 3
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Correspondence sent to D. M. Thomas mainly by universities, publishers, literary societies and festival organisers, generally regarding speaking engagements and the publication of articles, but also including some personal correspondence and copies of Thomas's own letters. The third of three par...