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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"

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

Photocopy of receipt for "New Numbers"

Photocopy of an original receipt for the periodical New Numbers for 7s 6d from Norman S Macdonnell. Handwritten by Catherine Abercrombie. Accompanied by a postcard from Lorna Beckett, later Chair of the Rupert Brooke Society

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Previously unpublished letter from Thomas to his literary agent C F Cazenove.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Unpublished according to http://www.edward-thomas-fellowship.org.uk/downloads/Edward-Thomas-Letters-Index.pdf

Robert Calverley Trevelyan

Robert Calverley Trevelyan (28 June 1872 – 21 March 1951) was an English poet and translator with links to the Bloomsbury Group of influential writers, intellectuals and artists.

Manuscripts of dramatic scripts and poetry by R C Trevelyan

Typescripts of speeches by Dr J F Lockwood and E M Forster delivered at the opening of the Robert Trevelyan Library at Birkbeck College, London, 20 September 1954

List of subscribers to the R C Trevelyan Memorial Fund

Photograph of R C Trevelyan

Newspaper cuttings from the time of his death in 1951

Typed list of the principal books and translations by R C Trevelyan 1898 - 1955

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

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