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Letter from Edward Thomas to C F Cazenove

Previously unpublished letter from Thomas to his literary agent C F Cazenove. Describes his current works and confides his dislike for commissioned "hack work". The letter ends that "some sort of end is pretty well up above the horizon". Includes typed transcription

Unpublished according to http://www.edward-thomas-fellowship.org.uk/downloads/Edward-Thomas-Letters-Index.pdf

Letter from Edward Thomas to Eleanor Farjeon

Letter contained in book "The Prose of Edward Thomas" selected by Roland Gant. Volume inscribed "To dearest Joan from Nellie Christmas 1954" [Eleanor Farjeon's handwriting]

Letter published in "The Last Four Years" by Eleanor Farjeon, page 101. Responds to news that Eleanor's brother Herbert [Bertie] is to be married to Joan Thornycroft daughter of Sir Hamo Thornycroft RA, sculptor. Joan was also, via her aunt Theresa Sassoon née Thornycroft, first cousin to Siegfried Sassoon

Eleanor Farjeon - Rowland Watson Correspondence

Correspondence mainly from Eleanor Farjeon to Rowland Watson. Includes items she sent to Rowland including a typescript of an article she wrote for the Manchester Guardian on Edward Thomas in 1937, a handlist of collected works presented to Hampstead Public Libraries in 1960, newspaper clippings, typescript foreword to "The Green Roads" and "You Come Too", photocopy of chapter "My Latter Years" by Eleanor Farjeon from "The Book of Leisure" by John Pudney, typescript of "The White House at Flansham (Its Roots and Branches)", and a mounted black and white photograph of the memorial stone on the Shoulder of Mutton, Steep in 1949

Correspondence with Publishers

Correspondence between Eleanor Farjeon and publishers The Bodley Head Limited and Holt, Rinehart and Winston Inc. Refers to publications "You Come Too", "London Nursery Rhymes", "Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds", "The Wasp Trap", "The Green Roads" and a volume on Edward Thomas's poetry for children

Edward Thomas - Robert Frost Letters

Photocopies and typescripts of letters spanning virtually the whole course of the Thomas - Frost relationship until Thomas's death in 1917. Mainly written from Thomas to Frost, they cover domestic issues as well as thoughts on poetry and the work of other writers and Thomas's observations from France. Also included are a letter from Roger Ingpen to Frost immediately after Thomas's death discussing the publication of "Eastaway's poems" and one from Frost to Helen Thomas extolling the virtues of Thomas as "the bravest and best and dearest man you and I have ever known"

Thesis

Unpublished text with corrections of thesis "Georgian Poetry and the Land" by Jan Marsh. Incomplete, missing part of chapter two "Rural England" and all of chapter nine "The Poet and The Country". Includes typescript article titled "New Numbers" and correspondence with the Cambridge University Press with regards to publishing. Annotated.

Documents relating to the Laurence Whistler window dedicated to Edward and Helen Thomas at Eastbury

Letter from Myfanwy Thomas to Mr Batty regarding thanking him for his contribution to the window and inquiring if he is related to Mr Trevor Batty, who owned Ashford Chase at Steep before Lord Horder, 20 November 1969
Letter from Myfanwy Thomas to Mr Batty recounting the dedication of the memorial window at Eastbury, 7 November 1971
Information letter, circular and pamphlet with loose photograph of the memorial window
Article "Tribute to a Poet: The Edward Thomas Window at Eastbury" by Noel Carrington published in County Life October 1971

Photographs of people and places associated with Laurie Lee

Photographs annotated on reverse
Photograph of the exterior of Laurie Lee's birthplace in Uplands, Stroud
Photograph of the exterior of the London flat where Laurie Lee lived and wrote for 35 years
Photograph of the memorial to Laurie Lee "El Oranescritor" that stands on the sea front at Almuñécar, Spain
Photograph of Barbara Hooper interviewing Señor Manuel Mateos, who knew Laurie Lee in 1935, in Almuñécar, Spain
Photograph of mounted photograph of Laurie Lee in Africa c.1948 with inscription "Jan love from Laurie (The Desert Fox) Sahara"

Photographer unknown

Four Decades of Poetry Journal

Four Decades was a short-lived journal of reviews and criticism of poetry written during the period 1890-1930 which published nine volumes between 1976-1979. It was edited by Jeff Cooper and Esther Fisher

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