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Dymock Poets Special Collection
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Letters, programmes, leaflets and articles relating to the "Dymock 900" celebrations

Celebrations of the 900th anniversary of the mention of Dymock in the Domesday book in 1085. Includes:

Dymock 900 souvenir programme and leaflet
Letters from the Reverend R J Legg [vicar of Dymock], Reverend Richard Harries [Dean of King's College London] and The Cantilena Singers
Newspaper article "Festival at Dymock" published in The Sunday Telegraph, 7 April 1985
Article "The Summer of 1914" by Anne Harvey published in Country Bazaar, with reference to Dymock 900
Typescript of talk by Reverend Richard Harries "Faith and Poetry", delivered at the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Dymock on 14 July 1985
Programme for the performance of "Elected Friends" at Dymock Church, 13 October 1985
Cheltenham Festival of Literature 1985 programme with details of a performance of "Elected Friends", 13 October 1985

Letters from Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

Photocopies of letters and postcards covering a wide range of subjects including reviews of Gibson's poetry, the publication of New Numbers and Gibson's army service. Also included are typed copies of poems Northleach, Bourton-on-the-Water, Old Meg, Stow-on-the-Wold and a handwritten draft of The Empty Cottage. Also includes one letter from Geraldine Gibson regarding the forthcoming publication of New Numbers

Letters from Various Sources

Photocopies of letters and cards from friends of Haines. They include thank you letters from children, expressions of sympathy on the death of his father and comments on contemporary literature. Authors include Marion M Scott, C W B Marsh, Madge Balfour, Lilian Gale, Ethel Priday, Dot Whitley and C C Haines

Also includes a letter to Alice from "Papa" dated 1864

Letters from John Freeman

Photocopies and transcripts of letters and postcards covering a wide range of subjects including Freeman's poetry and details of his social and domestic life. Also includes one letter from Gertrude Freeman

John Freeman (1880-1929) was a poet and critic

Letters and postcards from Edward Eastaway Thomas

Includes essay "The Edward Thomas Birthday Walk" c.1982; copy of article "Edward Thomas & Battersea: Some Connections" published in The Wandsworth Historian December 1978; copy of Edward Thomas book reviews published in The Wandsworth Historian September 1979; letter accompanying correspondence between Rowland Watson and Julian Thomas between 1936 - 1948 given to Edward by Cherry Watson [now missing]; final letter from Edward's wife Ruth Dyson

Letter from Robert Frost to John Haines

Written at Ryton, Dymock. Frost arranges to visit Haines with his daughter Lesley. Includes Frost's unvarnished opinions of Lascelles Abercrombie, Rupert Brooke, John Drinkwater and Wilfrid Wilson Gibson alongside comments on the beginning of the First World War.

Pencil annotations by John Haines

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