Special Collections and Archives

Respondents include:
Dwight Eddins
Martha Vogeler
National Library of Wales
Ken Kirk
Roy Carnon
Richard Lowndes
Sean Street
Margaret Thompson
Heather Norris Nicholson and Steve Nicholson
Edward Cawston Thomas
Maureen Silver

Correspondence

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Subseries
1977 - 1997

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Letter from "Mike" to "Anne"

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24 September 1997

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Discusses the gift of a lad's love plant "the "grandson" of Edward Thomas's plant" and "Sturt"

Photocopy of letter from Edward Eastaway Thomas to Patrick Garland

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(c.1994) 30 December 1994

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Discusses Edward Thomas's love of Sussex and his relationship with James Guthrie and The Pear Tree Press. Includes photocopy of passage "Edward Thomas: The Friend and The Artist" from "To The Memory of Edward Thomas" by James Gutherie, published 1937; and poem "An Old Sussex Manor", possibly by Charles Kennett Burrow

Miscellaneous correspondence

DP/ETF/3/16
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December 1994 - September 1997

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Letter from Richard Emeny to Alan Martin

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7 May 1995

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Discusses the founding of the Dymock Poets collection at Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education, the R George Thomas biography of Edward Thomas, Myfanwy Thomas, Edward Cawston Thomas and Edward Eastaway Thomas

Essay "Edward's Journey" by Simon Wright

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1999

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Prose essay on Edward Thomas's train journey from London to Gloucestershire on 23 June 1914 which inspired him to write the poem "Adlestrop"

Photocopy of article "A Week in the Country" by Helen Gunn

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(c.1994) 10 November 1994

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in Country Life. Discusses the poetry of Edward Thomas in the context of the First World War

Article "Farmer rips out poets' hedgerow" by Charles Clover

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31 October 1994

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the Daily Telegraph. Discusses the disputed removal of a hedgerow at Dymock

Article "A Wood Engraving and its Poem"

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September 1994

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in Multiples: Newsletter of the Society of Wood Engravers volume two number five. Features "Tall Nettles" by Edward Thomas with wood engraving by Yvonne Skargon

Article "Out in the Dark" by Julia Reid

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18 August 1994

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Scotsman Festival. Play on Edward Thomas by Adlestrop Productions

Article "Back when there was an England" by Andrew Motion

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5 December 1993

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Observer. Review of "Literary Englands: Versions of 'Englishness' in Modern Writing" by David Gervais

Photocopy of article "Eminent Black County Folk No. 13: Noel Harry Brettell" by Stan Hill

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(c.1992)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication unknown

Booklet "Dunwich by the Stormy Sea"

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1991

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Describes account of storm by Miss Hope Evelyn Webb nee Aldis

Typescript of essay "Thomas, Sturt and the Demise of Rural England" by David Gervase

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c.1990s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Annotated in pencil "draft do not print"

Typescript of essay "Rain" by David Gervais

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c.1990s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Discusses poem "Rain" by Edward Thomas

Photocopy of article "Recent Poetry" by Edward Thomas

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(c.1990s) December 1913

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Bookman. Annotated "photocopy sent by Joan Stevens"

Articles and Publications 1990s

DP/ETF/1/7
File

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

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

Articles and Publications 2000s

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2000s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Articles and Publications 1980s

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File
1981-1988

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Leaflets "Poems in the Waiting Room: The Poetry Club City Literary Institute London"

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c.1980s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Leaflets with poems by various poets including "November Sky", "Digging", "March" and "July" by Edward Thomas

Booklet "Edward Thomas: Poems"

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c.1980s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

"This selection of poems written by Edward Thomas forms the basis of "This Roaring Peace" an Oratorio composed by David Mitcham for Frensham Heights"

Article "Vistas of inspiration" by Kev Reynolds

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c.1980s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in Country. Describes the landscape of Crockham Hill in Kent and local residents Edward and Constance Garnett and Edward Thomas

Typescript "Edward Thomas & Walter de la Mare" by Michael Moynihan

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c.1980s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Discusses the friendship between Edward Thomas and Walter de la Mare. With ink annotation

Photocopy of article "The Lost Notebooks of Loren Eiseley"

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(c.1980s)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Author and publication unknown. Discusses the American poet Loren Eiseley [1907 - 1977] and his poem "Graveley Then" written for Edward Thomas. With ink annotation

Photocopy of passage "Dylan Thomas: The Broadcasts: Edward Thomas"

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(c.1980s) 1949

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Annotated "From Roy Burton" and "For Myfanwy". Discusses Edward Thomas

Photocopy of article "He Went, Singing" by Oliver Edwards

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(c.1980s)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Times. Describes Edward Thomas, his poetry and his leaving home for France

Photocopy of article "Edward Thomas" by E S P Haynes

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(c.1980s) June 1917

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the English Review. Obituary for Edward Thomas

Article "Poet remembered"

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6 March 1989

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The News. Reports the seventeenth Edward Thomas Birthday Walk

Article "Real Pubs" by Angus McGill

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c.1980s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication unknown. Features the White Horse near Petersfield which was frequented by Edward Thomas

Photocopy of article "The godfather of nature writing" by Jonathan Lorie

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27 February 2013

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in Country Life. Discusses Edward Thomas

Review of stage production "The Dark Earth and the Light Sky" by Jean Moorcroft Wilson

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29 November 2012

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in Camden New Journal Review. Performed at the Almeida Theatre

Photocopy of article "A pure thrush word: Adam Newey joins in a celebration of the enduring influence of Edward Thomas"

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(c.2008) 14 June 2008

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Reviews of "Branch Lines: Edward Thomas and Contemporary Poetry" by Guy Cuthbertson and Lucy Newlyn and "The Annotated and Collected Poems" by Edward Thomas, edited by Edna Longley. Published in The Guardian

Photocopied excerpt from book "Peter Dale in Conversation with Cynthia Haven"