Special Collections and Archives

Published by Alfred A Knopf, New York. Inscribed by Ernest Newman "To John Drinkwater from Ernest Newman [?] 31". Also inscribed by John Drinkwater "pages 37-52 being missing, E N gave me another copy, so I give this with my love to Tanya: John Drinkwater Sept 1931"

"A place that will always stay with us" article by John Morrish

DP/BD/1/48
Item
19 June 2004

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

On Adlestrop. From "West Country Life"

"A poet's wisdom, a warrior's courage" article by Jeremy Paxman

DP/BD/1/43
Item
c.2000s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

On Wilfrid Owen. From "Radio Times"

"A true golden welcome" article by Janet Hughes

DP/BD/1/46
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22 March 2002

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

From "Western Daily Press"

A3 b/w poster for book signing for "The Dymock Poets" by Sean Street at Three Counties Bookshop, Ledbury

DP/BD/5/7
Item
1994

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

A3 b/w poster for Friends of the Dymock Poets Robert Frost Cottage Appeal Executive Trust urgent public meeting on sale of Robert Frost's cottage "Little Iddens"

DP/BD/5/4
Item
3 September 1993

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Held at Dymock Parish Hall

A3 poster for radio broadcast "That Last Summer: The Dymock Poets, 1914"

DP/BD/5/10
Item
c.2000

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Broadcast on Radio 4 10 and 16 September c.2000

A4 and A3 b/w posters of the Inaugural Meeting of the Friends of the Dymock Poets

DP/BD/5/5
Item
6 October 1993

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Held at the Feathers Hotel, Ledbury [80 years to the day after Edward Thomas and Robert Frost first met]

A4 and poster and flyer for event "Wyvern Words and Severn Sounds: An evening of words and songs reflecting the literary and musical heritage of Gloucestershire between the Severn and the Wye"

DP/BD/5/13
Item
14 July 2004

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Held at St Mary's Chuch, Dymock

A4 poster for event "Only The Wanderer: A celebration of the work of Ivor Gurney and Gerald Finzi in Songs and Poetry"

DP/BD/5/19
Item
29 October c.2007

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Held at Wigmore Hall, London

"Abraham Lincoln: a play by John Drinkwater"

DP/FDP/3/18
Item
2018

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Re-issue for the informal reading to mark the centenary of the first performance at The Birmingham Repertory Theatre on 19 October 1918. Event held on 19 October 2018 at The Old Rep Theatre, Birmingham. Richard Simkin's copy, who took part in the reading. Event held alongside performances of the "Quilt Song" opera by Suzie Self

"Accidentally on Purpose" Christmas greeting

DP/ET/5/3/9
Item
1960

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

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

Accounts of "Patagonia and the Chilean Fjords" and "Thailand and Laos" by Edward Cawston Thomas

DP/ETF/7/38
Item
1998 and 2001

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

With pencil annotations

Additional Edward Thomas Autumn Walk itinerary

DP/ETF/2/2/7
Item
30 November 1986

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

The Quantocks. Includes two maps of the routes

Address book of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

DP/MG/3/9
Item
c.1950s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Contains the contact details for a wide range of contemporary literary figures and organisations as well as other family and friends

Address given by Jeremy Purseglove at the funeral of Edward Eastaway Thomas

DP/ET/3/32
Item
c. February 1996

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Address list of contacts annotated by Barbara Davis

DP/BD/3/14
Item
5 September 2006

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes printout of email from Jeff Cooper to Barbara Davis with photograph of Ursula Whalley [Lascelles Abercrombie's sister], "Alec" and an unknown person

"Adlestrop Remembered" booklet by Ralph Mann

DP/ETF/7/32
Item
1992

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Explores Adleptrop's literary connections, including Edward Thomas, Jane Austin and various poems about Adlestrop

Administration and Notes by Barbara Davis

DP/BD/2
Subseries
c.2000s - 2008

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Administration regarding Robert Frost visit 1957

DP/GF/6/1
File
3 - 21 May 1957

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes letter from Margaret Haferd, Librarian at the United States Information Service, American Embassy London, and poster and invitation to Robert Frost's lecture "Swinger of Birches" at the University of London

Administration Series

DP/A
Series
1995-2015

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

This series covers the internal administration of the collection, including minutes of the Dymock Poets Archive and Study Centre Advisory Group, events, publicity and the Occasional Papers Series

Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education

Adrian J Armstrong

DP/RW/5/1
File
2 - 7 September 1967

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Refers to monies raised at an auction and his own family papers

Agenda for the Dymock Poets Exhibition Meeting

DP/BD/8/2
Item
27 March 2006

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

With ink annotations

Alan Anderson - The Tragara Press

DP/MT/3/5
File
1 October 1985

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Alan Beardon

DP/MT/3/10
File
4 November 1989

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Alan Martin

DP/MT/3/107
File
8 March 1982 - 7 November 1997

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

1st Secretary of The Edward Thomas Fellowship

Includes details of works by or about Edward Thomas in the posession of Carl Dons, from his daughter Karen Holding

Alan T Foreman

DP/MT/3/60
File
1 January 1993

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Alison Brackenbury

DP/MT/3/21
File
31 October - 7 November 2004

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Alison Lowbury

DP/RW/6/4
File
10 May 1980 - 28 July 1981

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Refers to a booklet on Alison's father, Andrew Young, and his correspondence with Rowland Watson, Meyerstein, Eleanor Farjeon and Clifford Bax

Alison Lowbury

DP/MT/3/102
File
14 June - 17 August 1998

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Daughter of Andrew Young

Allan Jones

DP/MT/3/87
File
8 December 1993 - 2 March 1994

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Almedia Theatre production programe for play "The Dark Earth and the Light Sky" by Nick Dear, based on Edward Thomas, Helen Thomas, Robert Frost and Eleanor Farjeon

DP/VD/43
Subseries
2013

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Performed at the Almedia Theatre 8 November 2012 - 12 January 2013

"An Alphabetical Index to the Poems of Edward Thomas" compiled by Roy Burton

DP/ETF/7/37
Item
July 1999

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

"An Index to Poetry in Selected British and Irish Periodicals 1900-1925" by Jeffrey Cooper

DP/JC/4/2
Item
1984

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Two volumes, loose sheets. Thesis submitted for the Fellowship of the Library Association

"An Introduction to The Dymock Poets" leaflet

DP/JC/1/7/7
Item
2014

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

"An Unstamped Letter in our Rural Letter Box" Christmas greeting

DP/ET/5/3/1
Item
1944

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Annual Christmas greeting from Robert Frost. 2,050 copies printed by The Spiral Press, New York. This was one of the 300 copies printed with Frost's name as the sender. This poem was collected in "Steeple Bush" published 1947

Andrea Clark