Special Collections and Archives

Colour slide showing unknown man standing in front of a hedge

DP/ETF/9/4
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c.1980s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photographer unknown

Colour photocopy of article "On Foot in Orchard Country" by Linda Hart

DP/BD/1/38
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(c.1995) Spring 1995

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

From "Countryside Campaigner"

Circular from the Edward Thomas Fellowship titled "The Thomas-Noble Letters"

DP/ET/2/3/5
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January 1992

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Referring to the purchase of the Thomas-Noble letters by the National Library of Wales and appealing for donations to help reach the £18000 total cost. With handwritten note by Edward Eastaway Thomas "£100 sent 5.2.92"

Circular from the Edward Thomas Fellowship titled "Notecards"

DP/ET/2/3/8
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c.1995

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Details of how to order notecards. Includes handwritten note by Edward Eastaway Thomas "£12 sent 11/8.95"

Chronology of the Dymock Poets

DP/BD/11/4
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c.1990s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

From the birth of Edward Marsh on 1872 to the death of Eleanor Farjeon in 1965. Includes a select bibliography

Christmas greetings card with poem "Rivals for Attention" by Kathleen and Ted Morrison

DP/ET/4/11/5
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1970

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes handwritten note from Kathleen Morrison to Edward Eastaway Thomas

Christmas greeting from John and Daisy Drinkwater, probably to Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

DP/MG/1/1/1
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Christmas 1924

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

A printed poem by John Drinkwater, translated from the German of Edward Morike. Includes a handwritten message by John Drinkwater "From John and Daisy Drinkwater: Christmas 1924"

Christmas card from Anne [Harvey] and Gervase [Farjeon] to Barbara Davis

DP/BD/3/15
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c.2006

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Card printed with poem "The Tired Tree" by Eleanor Farjeon. Includes photograph of unknown person. Photographer unknown

"'Chocolate box' cottage for sale: Thatched house has link with Dymock Poets" article by Martin Kirby

DP/BD/1/53
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21 June 2007

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Sale of Oldfields House. From "The Citizen"

CD recording of talk "The Half-Used Life" by Jean Liddiard and Sam Dastor

DP/ETF/10/6
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2004

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Delivered at The Edward Thomas Fellowship Study Day at the University of Gloucestershire on 12 June 2004. Discusses the life and work of Isaac Rossenberg

CD recording of talk "Out of the Woods of Thoughts" by Steve Martin

DP/ETF/10/3
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2004

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Introduced by Anne Harvey. Delivered at The Edward Thomas Fellowship Study Day at the University of Gloucestershire on 12 June 2004. Puts Edward Thomas poetry to music

CD recording of talk by Sir Michael Howard on war poetry and how it has affected our view of war

DP/ETF/10/5
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2004

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Delivered at The Edward Thomas Fellowship Study Day at the University of Gloucestershire on 12 June 2004. Introduced by Richard Emeny

CD recording of talk "A Triangle of Letters" by Caro McIntosh

DP/ETF/10/4
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2004

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Delivered at The Edward Thomas Fellowship Study Day at the University of Gloucestershire on 12 June 2004. Discusses three letters found in the Dymock Poets Special Collection:
Eleanor Farjeon to Rowland Watson, 1937
Helen Thomas to Jo Dawson, 1951
Helen Thomas to Eleanor Farjeon, c. July 1964

CD recording of Myfanwy Thomas interview by Chris Brown, Bridge Cottage, Eastbury, January 1983

DP/ETF/10/2
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2006

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes Myfanwy reading extracts from her book "One of These Fine Days"

CD "Poems by Edward Thomas: Introduced and read by Helen Thomas"

DP/ETF/10/1
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2000

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Transferred from the original 10 inch LP recording made c.1965

Helen Thomas reads 18 Edward Thomas poems and recounts her life with Edward

Cassette tape "Forest and vale and high blue hill: Poems of Gloucestershire arranged and sung by Johnny Coppin"

DP/BD/7/3
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1983

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Track listing:
In Flanders by F W Harvey
A Song of Gloucestershire by F W Harvey
Piper's Wood by F W Harvey
Fisherman of Newnam by Ivor Gurney
Cotswold Love by John Drinkwater
Briar Roses by Eva Dobell
Legacy by John Drinkwater
Warning by F W Harvey
The High-Road by John Haines
Field of Autumn by Laurie Lee
Cotswold Lad by Frank Mansell
Song of Minsterworth Perry by F W Harvey
Have Wandered by Leonard Clark
The Cotswold Farmers by John Drinkwater
This Night the Stars by Leonard Clark

Carcanet publication catalogues featuring "Edward Thomas: Selected Prose" and "Edward Thomas: A Language not to be Betrayed: The Selected Prose"

DP/ETF/7/19
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1980 - 1981

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Bundle of handwritten notes, invoices, contacts with addresses, sketches and leaflets by Barbara Davis relating to the Dymock Poets and Dymock Poets Exhibition at St Mary's Church, Kempley

DP/BD/2/1
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c.2000s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Booklet for the memorial service of Jill Balcon (1925 - 2010)

DP/ETF/4/47
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20 March 2010

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Held at Wigmore Hall. Jill Balcon was a prominent member of The Edward Thomas Fellowship and lived in Steep later in her life

Booklet "Edward Thomas: Poems"

DP/ETF/1/6/46
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c.1980s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

"This selection of poems written by Edward Thomas forms the basis of "This Roaring Peace" an Oratorio composed by David Mitcham for Frensham Heights"

Booklet "Dunwich by the Stormy Sea"

DP/ETF/1/7/5
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1991

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Describes account of storm by Miss Hope Evelyn Webb nee Aldis

Book "The History of the Holy Graal" volume two by Sebastian Evans

DP/MG/6/1
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1898

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by J M Dent and Co. Inscribed "W. W. Gibson from S C Cockerell July 1898"

Book jacket for "Coldknuckles" by Wilfrid Gibson

DP/MG/6/4
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1947

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Pencil inscription "Michael Gibson, 33, Nella Rd, W6"

Black and white photograph of a painting of a landscape, possibly the Shoulder of Mutton at Steep

DP/ET/9/8
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c.1990s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photographer unknown

"Birmingham Repertory Theatre: The Playhouse and the Man" by Thomas C Kemp

DP/TM/1/23
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1943

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Cornish Brothers Limited, Birmingham

"Behold, This Dreamer" by Walter de la Mare

DP/TM/1/22
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1939

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Faber and Faber, London. Inscribed "Tatty & Felix from John"

"A-Wishing Well" Christmas greeting

DP/ET/5/3/8
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1959

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Annual Christmas greeting from Robert Frost. 10,760 copies printed by The Spiral Press, New York. Includes wood engravings by Thomas W Nason. This was one of the 600 copies printed with Frost's name as the sender. The poem was collected in "The Clearing" published 1962

"Away!" Christmas greeting

DP/ET/5/3/7
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1958

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Annual Christmas greeting from Robert Frost. 9,155 copies printed by The Spiral Press, New York. Includes wood engravings by Stefan Martin. This was one of the 660 copies printed with Frost's name as the sender. The poem was collected in "The Clearing" published 1962

"Autumn in Malvern Festival" programmes

DP/JC/1/7/5
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2011-2014

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Audio cassette with recording of Catherine Abercrombie interview

DP/JC/3/3/3
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(c.1980s) 28 October 1965

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Interview with Catherine Abercrombie recounting her memories of the Dymock Poets. Interviewed by Jeff Cooper

Audio cassette with recording of Catherine Abercrombie interview

DP/JC/3/3/1
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(c.1980s) 12 November 1963

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Interview with Catherine Abercrombie recounting her memories of the Dymock Poets. Interviewed by Jo Stewart

Audio cassette with audio recording of Catherine Abercrombie interview

DP/JC/3/3/2
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(c.1980s) 19 April 1965

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Interview with Catherine Abercrombie recounting her memories of the Dymock Poets. Interviewed by Leigh Crutchley

Audio cassette recording of Radio 4 broadcast "No One Left: No One Came" by Anne Harvey

DP/GF/5/3
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July 2001

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Auction catalogue for the sale of the "John Drinkwater Collection of Literary Manuscripts"

DP/MG/7/2/2
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31 May 1937

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Catalogue for the sale of literary manuscripts, presentation books, modern drawings, pictures and relics belonging to John Drinkwater

Auction catalogue for the sale of the "Drinkwater Collection of Pottery"

DP/MG/7/2/1
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21 May 1937

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Catalogue of the collection of old English stoneware, old English Delft, Martin-ware and continental pottery belonging to John Drinkwater

Assignment of copyright of selected works by Rupert Brooke to Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, Lascelles Abercrombie and Walter de la Mare

DP/MG/3/7
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22 November 1920

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Indenture signed by Rupert Brooke's mother Mary Ruth Brooke assigning copyright for Brooke's works "Poems", "1914 and Other Poems", "Selected Poems", "The Old Vicarage, Grantchester", "Collected Poems", "Letters from America", and "John Webster and the Elizabethan Drama" to Gibson, Abercrombie and de la Mare according to written instruction from Rupert Brooke who died intestate. The indenture states that this letter also contained "other matters of a very private nature and has since been destroyed by the Administratix" [Mary Ruth Brooke]

Article "Worth a Detour" by James Runcie

DP/ETF/1/6/37
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July 1988

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in Country Living. Article about Edward Thomas and Adlestrop. With ink annotation

Article "Words" by John Silverlight

DP/MT/1/10/30
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10 June 1984

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Observer. Refers to Edward Thomas's poem "It was Upon" in discussion of the term "lattermath" when describing the second cut of agricultural grass

Article "Windows to mark centenary of a poet" by Philip Howard

DP/ETF/1/5/10
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10 January 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Times. Describes the Edward Thomas memorial window at Steep. Mounted by Charles Barker press cuttings service

Article "Window on the World" featuring photographs of the Edward Thomas memorial window and the exterior of Steep Church

DP/ETF/1/5/48
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April 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Illustrated London News

Article "Wilfrid Gibson" by Walter de la Mare

DP/MG/2/6
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1938

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in "New Literature". Review of "Coming and Going", praising Gibson's "profound sympathy with, and understanding of the men whose destiny it is to make their living against long odds, in danger, difficulty, and often in despair"

Article "Wilfred [sic] Wilson Gibson: Poet of Tenement and Trench" by Reverend John Haynes Holmes

DP/MG/2/3
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6 January 1917

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Possibly published in "The Survey". A review of Gibson's work, focusing on the "unpretentious" Daily Bread and Battle, described by Holmes as "war poetry of the future"

Article "WFA Poets" by Fred Wood

DP/ETF/1/6/33
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Summer 1987

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in "Stand To! The Journal of the Western Front Association". Refers to the Edward Thomas exhibition All Roads Lead to France at the Imperial War Museum

Article "Weekend of celebrations for Edward Thomas: The poet who treasured Steep"