Handwritten poem "How at Once"
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- c.1915
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Handwritten by Edward Thomas on "Y.M.C.A. H.M. Forces on Active Service" headed paper. With pencil annotation
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Handwritten poem "How at Once"
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Handwritten by Edward Thomas on "Y.M.C.A. H.M. Forces on Active Service" headed paper. With pencil annotation
Photocopy of letter from Edward Thomas to "My dear friend"
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Written to an unknown recipient describing conditions on the Western Front, stating "I should like to come home some day, but do not exactly expect to, though I know I have a fair chance". Send love to Mrs Williams and Miss John
Photocopy of letter from Edward Thomas to "My dear friend"
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Gives Christmas greetings to unknown recipient, Mrs Williams and Miss John. Gives details of his attachment to the 244th Siege Battery and describes operations at Romney Marsh as well as how his son Mervyn is prospering at home
Copy of blueprint for the Edward Thomas memorial plaque at Berryfield Cottage
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Reads "Here lived Edward Thomas: Poet Born 1878 Died 1917"
Photocopied list of Edward Thomas letters deposited at Battersea Library by Rowland Watson
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With ink annotation
Typescript of radio talk "Edward Thomas" by Clifford Dyment
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With pencil annotation
Typescripts of radio talk "Edward Thomas (1878-1917)" by Thomas Walton
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One typescript in English and another in French produced by BBC French Language Services and broadcast on 10 and 11 April 1967
Typescript of radio talk "Edward Thomas: Poet" by Bernard Price
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Three mounted newspaper cuttings advertising radio programmes on Edward Thomas
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Advertising "Edward Thomas" by Frank Baker on 16 March 1960, "... A Poet Still" by Frank Baker on 16 March 1966 and "The Poet and Nature" by Harry Coombes on 2 April 1966
Newspaper article "From Hack to War Poet" by Anthony Powell
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Publication unknown. Review of "Edward Thomas: a Critical Biography" by William Cooke. With ink annotation
Photocopy of newspaper article "Private Lives" by Peter Vansittart
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Published in The Spectator. Review of "Edward Thomas: A Critical Biography" by William Cooke
Photocopy of E O Hoppé photograph of Edward Thomas
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Published in "The Bookman" special Christmas number 1917. With ink annotation
Printed copy of the wording of the will of Edward Thomas
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Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
With pencil annotation
Copy of blueprint for Edward Thomas memorial plaque on the Shoulder of Mutton
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Reads "This hillside is dedicated to the memory of Edward Thomas: Poet: Born in Lambeth 3rd March 1878, Killed in the Battle of Arras 9th April 1917. And I rose up and knew that I was tired and continued my journey"
Printed poem "The First Christmas by E H W Meyerstein"
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Limited edition number 86 of 100 copies printed for R N Green-Armytage by Hilary Pepler at St Dominic's Press, Ditchling, Sussex. With pencil annotation
Typescript "It's Later than you Think"
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Observations on getting older extracted from "a retired officer's correspondence"
Letter from E H W Meyerstein to Mrs Fleming, also known as Dorothy L Sayers
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Discusses her perception that he has caused her offence. Includes a mounted newspaper clipping of a pencil drawing of Dorothy L Sayers drawn by Gunsbury. With pencil annotation
Postcard from E H W Meyerstein to Rowland Watson with poem "To my Editor, if I have one"
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With pencil annotation
"Poems of Men and Hours" by John Drinkwater
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Published by David Nutt, London, first edition. Inscribed "To Francis W Bedford from John Drinkwater Xmas 1911"
"Shakespeare's Songs" by William Shakespeare
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Published by The Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford upon Avon. Limited edition copy 199 of 500. Inscribed "Tanya from John Drinkwater 1934"
"1914 and Other Poems" by Rupert Brooke
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Published by Sidgwick & Jackson Limited, London
"Letters of John Keats to his Family and Friends" edited by Sidney Colvin
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Published by Macmillan and Company Limited, London. Inscribed "John Drinkwater for Tanya 4.X.33"
"One-Act Plays for Secondary Schools" edited by James Plaisted Webber and Hanson Hart Webster
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Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Pencil inscription "Tanya Moiseiwitsch"
"Kenilworth" by Sir Walter Scott
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Published by Macmillan and Company Limited, London. Inscribed "Tanya with much love from Big John: Christmas 1926 Wallington"
"Patriotism in Literature" by John Drinkwater
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Published by Williams and Norgate, London. Inscribed "Tanya from John Drinkwater August 1932"
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Published by Macmillan and Company Limited, London. Inscribed "Tanya with much love Big John: Christmas 1926 Wallington"
"Mary Barton and Other Tales" by Elizabeth Gaskell
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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"
"A Musical Critic's Holiday" by Ernest Newman
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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"
"Anthology of Modern British Poetry" selected by Levin L Schückling
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Published by Berhard Tauchnitz, Lepizig. Inscribed "For Tanya with love from Big [?] John Drinkwater"
"The Week-End Book" edited by Vera Mendel, Francis Meynell and John Goss
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Published by The Nonesuch Press, London. Inscribed "For darling Tanya with lots of love from Auntie Jeff Christmas 1930. One horrible omission me enrages - no mention of J D within these pages"
"The Riddle and Other Stories" by Walter de la Mare
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Published by Faber and Faber, London. Inscribed "Tanya Moiseiwitch love from John"
"The Poems of Sidney Godolphin" edited by William Dighton
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Published by The Clarendon Press, Oxford. Inscribed "Tanya from John Drinkwater Nov 1934"
"Poetry and Dogma" by John Drinkwater
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Published text of the Arthur Skemp Memorial Lecture at the University of Bristol delivered on 29 January 1931. Inscribed "Tanya from Big John Drinkwater 2.7.31"
"The Mabinogion" translated by Charlotte Guest
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Published by J M Dent and Sons Limited, London. Inscribed "Daisy darling from John her Jonathan [?] September 1932"
"Summer Harvest: Poems 1924-1933" by John Drinkwater
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Published by Sidgwick and Jackson Limited, London. Inscribed "To Tanya with love from John Drinkwater November 1933"
"This Troubled World" by John Drinkwater
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Published by Columbia University Press, New York. Inscribed "Tanya with love from John Drinkwater: Highgate Easter 1933"
"Behold, This Dreamer" by Walter de la Mare
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Published by Faber and Faber, London. Inscribed "Tatty & Felix from John"
"Birmingham Repertory Theatre: The Playhouse and the Man" by Thomas C Kemp
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Published by Cornish Brothers Limited, Birmingham
"Robert E Lee: a play in nine scenes" by John Drinkwater
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Published by Sidgwick & Jackson, London
"Oliver Cromwell: a play" by John Drinkwater
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Published by Sidgwick & Jackson Limited, London
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Published by The Cranbrook Tower Press, London. Signed limited edition copy number 100A of 999. Inscribed "May 17th 1966: Daisy Kennedy Drinkwater: (and, later on, for Tanya Moiseiwitch Krish)"
Handmade Shakespeare book cabinet by John Drinkwater
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Handmade bookcase housing the following Shakespeare pocket editions:
A Midsummer Night's Dream
As You Like It
Coriolanus
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
King John
King Henry IV Part II
King Henry V
King Lear
King Richard II
King Richard III
Macbeth
Measure for Measure
Much Ado About Nothing
Shakespeare's Hamlet Prince of Denmark
Shakespeare's Macbeth
Shakespeare's Pericles
Shakespeare's Timon of Athens
The Merchant of Venice
The Tempest
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Venus and Adonis
Volumes inscribed "Tanya from Big John July 1928" and "Tanya from John D 1931". Includes handwritten label "John Drinkwater made this bookcase of is Shakespeare collection when in Birmingham (or Nottingham) & gave it to Tanya Moiseiwitsch" and small image of a pencil drawing of Drinkwater's profile
"The Augustan Books of Modern Poetry" box edited by Edward Thompson and Humbert Wolfe
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Velvet-lined box containing the following pamphlets published by Ernest Benn Limited, London:
Matthew Arnold
Hilaire Belloc
Emily Brontë
Rupert Brooke
Robert Burns
G K Chesterton
W H Davies
Walter de la Mare
John Donne
Wilfrid Gibson
Alice Meynell
Robert Louis Stevenson
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Alfred, Lorn Tennyson
Edward Thomas
Francis Thompson
W B Yeats
Woodcut print of a tiger by Maxwell Armfield
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Signed in pencil "Maxwell Armfield"
Handwritten poem "The Heresy of an Elder or Not Believing in Fairies" by John Drinkwater
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Signed and dated. Written in Hungerford
Handwritten poems E[?] and "The Little Paradise" by John Drinkwater
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Written at Brampton. Signed and annotated "For Tanya"
Handwritten poem "The Fool" by John Drinkwater
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With crossings-out and reworkings. Annotated "Brampton Summer 1932" and "For Tanya for Christmas 1932 from John Drinkwater: Highgate"
Handwritten poem "An Englishman's Song" by John Drinkwater
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Signed and annotated "For Tanya: John D: Finished at Brampton 14.vi.32"
Handwritten stanza of poetry written by John Drinkwater on the back of a Lords cricket card
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Written in pencil. Card for an England versus South Africa cricket match on 29 June 1935
Reads "Thus I survey the varied scene, And meditate upon the time, When proud Elizabeth was queen, and Shakespeare made his golden rhyme"