Special Collections and Archives

Written at Little Iddens, Ledington, Ledbury. Frost arranges to meet Haines at Newent and wishes to discuss "one or two flowers you must tell me about".

Pencil annotation "1" on envelope

Letter from Robert Frost to John Haines

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22 September 1914

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

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

Letter from Sarah, Jamie and Oliver Harper to Barbara Davis regarding recent visit

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12 April 2006

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes copy of drawing and poem by "Jamie Harper age eight"

Letter from Stephen Stuart-Smith, Enitharmon Press, to Edward Eastaway Thomas and Ruth Dyson regarding an anthology on Edward Thomas

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28 March 1991

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Letter from the Friends of the Dymock Poets Committee to members on the future of the society

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3 September 2001

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Discusses the future structure of the society

Letter from The Madresfield Estate to Barbara Davis regarding a visit to Madresfield Court

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14 May 2003

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes map of location of Madresfield Court, flyer with information about Madresfield Court and copies of the Lygon Family Tree since 1721 with pencil annotations

Letter from the University of Gloucestershire Archives and Special Collections to Barbara Davis accompanying CD-R of images of the Dymock Poets

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4 September 2006

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Research for Dymock Poets Exhibition. Images of Lascelles Abercrombie, Rupert Brooke, Wilfrid Gibson, Edward Thomas and Robert Frost

Letter from unknown to Julian Thomas thanking him for sending a book of essays and hoping to meet his daughter on her travels to the USA

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1 September 1947

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Letter from Wendy Tilley, The Earnely Trust, to Edward Eastaway Thomas regarding a talk "Literary Lives in Sussex and Hampshire"

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7 June 1995

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Letter to the Editor of The Times Literary Supplement from Thomas Seccombe on the death of Edward Thomas

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19 April 1917

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Letters from Dr June Chatfield to Edward Eastaway Thomas regarding participation in an event "Countryside Writers on Surrey", 26-28 April 1991

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15-18 April 1991

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Held by the Juniper Hall Field Centre. Includes programme of the event

Letters from Teresa Benson-Colpi to Edward Eastaway Thomas on speaking about Edward Thomas as part of the Demarco European Art Foundation International Summer School

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22 May - 2 August 1995

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Held at Stonerwood Park, Steep

"Letters of John Keats to his Family and Friends" edited by Sidney Colvin

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1918

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Macmillan and Company Limited, London. Inscribed "John Drinkwater for Tanya 4.X.33"

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

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December 1983 - October 1985

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

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

"Ley man's guide to the Borders" article by Christopher Somerville

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23 March 1997

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

On the Herefordshire - Wales border. From "The Sunday Telegraph"

Libretto for "Quilt Song: The Opera" composed by Suzie Self

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2018

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Inspired by the play "Abraham Lincoln" by John Drinkwater. Performed to mark the centenary of the play's first performance on 19 October 1918 at The Birmingham Repertory Theatre. "Quilt Song" performed on 19 and 20 October 2018 at The Old Rep Theatre, Birmingham

"Literary Landscapes of England: The Dymock Poets of Gloucestershire" article by David Carroll

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Spring 2004

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

From "This England"

Magazine article "A Poet's Pilgrimage"

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c.1957

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication and author unknown. An illustrated account of Frost's return to Dymock in May 1957

Map with route and details of "An Expedition into the World of Edward Thomas"

DP/ET/3/29
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25 July 1995

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Subtitle "accompanied by Anne Mallinson with readings by Meg Wynn Owen & Matthew Lloyd Davies". Part of the Demarco European Art Foundation International Summer School 1995

"Mary Barton and Other Tales" by Elizabeth Gaskell

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1925

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by John Murray, London. Inscribed "To Tanya on her fourteenth birthday these eight volumes of Mrs Gaskell with love and every good wish for many many birthdays to come, from her affectionate friend Big John: London December 3rd 1928"

Membership leaflet for the Friends of the Dymock Poets

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c.2000s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

"Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini a Florentine Artist written by Himself" translated by Anne MacDonell

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1927

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by J M Dent and Sons Limited, London. Inscribed "Tanya with love from John. Her 19th birthday"

Memorial service programme in memory of Lascelles Abercrombie by The Gregnog Press

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12 December 1938

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Service held at St Martin in the Fields, London. Includes card invitation. Programme includes poems by Abercrombie

Memories of Edward Thomas manuscript

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1952

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Typescript of manuscript of memories of Edward Thomas collected by Rowland Watson. Includes ink annotations

Mid Northumberland Arts Group publications leaflet

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c.1980

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes information on an Edward Thomas poster and Tall Nettles poetry poster

Minutes for the Dymock Poets Exhibition Meeting

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12 June 2006

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

With pencil annotations

Mounted articles "In Praise of Edward Thomas" and "Lights Out - a superb tribute to a writer" published in The Herald [Alton]

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16 February and 9 March 1990

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Reports on the production of "Lights Out" starring Barbara Leigh-Hunt and Richard Pasco

Mounted articles referring to the anniversary of Edward Thomas's death and the Imperial War Museum exhibition

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9-10 April 1987

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Times and the Daily Telegraph. With ink annotations

Mounted newspaper articles documenting the Edward Thomas walks

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1974 - 1983

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes articles"The Poets of Steep" by David Gill, "Edward Thomas: Poet of Hampshire" by Valerie Maskell and "Edward Thomas: mirror of England" by Beryl Jobling

Mounted photograph of the exterior of The Red House