The archive of Tony Harrison

Item author: Tony Harrison (born 1937)
Item date: 1950 onwards
Grant Value: £25,000 (Philip Larkin Fund)
Item cost: £300,000
Item cost pre-decimal: NULL
Item date acquired: 2007
Item institution: Leeds University, Brotherton Library
Town/City: Leeds
County: West Yorkshire

A comprehensive archive maintained by Tony Harrison, the poet, since 1950, comprising 200 large bound notebooks and many other manuscripts, typescripts and annnotated proofs of his work, together with extensive files relating to the development and realisation of his theatre, opera, film and television projects.

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Tony Harrison