Special Collections and Archives

Article "Remembering a poet who died at Arras" by Patrick O'Donovan

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5 March 1978

Published in The Observer

Article "The remote pub honours the poet it inspired"

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6 March 1978

Published in the Southern Evening Echo [Southampton and Hampshire], author unknown. Refers to the White Horse pub at Prior's Dean and the naming of the "Edward Thomas Bar". Durrant's media clipping

Article "Big tribute to Steep's poet"

DP/ETF/1/5/33
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6 March 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The News, author unknown. Reports on the Edward Thomas centenary celebrations at Steep

Article "Three days of tributes to Edward Thomas: a Post picture report"

DP/ETF/1/5/35
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9 March 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the East Hampshire Post, author unknown. Documents the centenary celebrations in Steep

Article "Easter reading par excellence"

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25 March 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Bookseller, author unknown. Refers to "Richard Jefferies" by Edward Thomas. Durrant's media clipping

Article "Edward Thomas: a rare sensibility" by Harry Coombes

DP/ETF/1/5/50
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June 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in Books and Bookmen. Review of four centenary publications relating to Edward Thomas. "Richard Jefferies" by Edward Thomas, "Edward Thomas on the Countryside" by Roland Gant, "Edward Thomas" by Sally Muir and "Edward Thomas: A Poet for his Country" by Jan Marsh

Article "From Steep to Arras: a very personal impression" by Stephen Hancock

DP/ETF/1/5/52
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Summer 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Typescript of article published in Bedales Chronicle volume 62 number 2

Prospectus for "Edward Thomas: A centenary celebration with etchings by Arthur Neal"

DP/ET/6/4
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c. March 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Article "Windows to mark centenary of a poet" by Philip Howard

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10 January 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Times. Describes the Edward Thomas memorial window at Steep. Mounted by Charles Barker press cuttings service

Article "A poet's coat and walking stick"

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13 January 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the Southern [?] Echo, author unknown. Refers to the Edward Thomas memorial window at Steep

Article "Edward Thomas, was he a war poet?" by Richard Gates

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25 February 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the Western Mail. Durrant's media clipping

Article "Edward Thomas Centenary"

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3 March 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Times. Notice of the centenary of the birth of Edward Thomas and details the unveiling of a plaque at Prior's Dean. Durrant's media clipping

Article "Memories of Thomas"

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6 March 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The News [Portsmouth and Hampshire]. Christopher Dennett, joiner who worked on The Red House, recounts his memories of the building and Edward Thomas. Durrant's media clipping

Article "Weekend of celebrations for Edward Thomas: The poet who treasured Steep"

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10 March 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the "Alton Herald", author unknown. Reports on the Edward Thomas centenary celebrations at Steep

Article "Poets and poetry" by Charles Causley

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Summer 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in Countryman. Details the publication of "Edward Thomas on the Countryside" by Roland Gant

Article "Thomas centenary ride"

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20 October 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Herald [Petersfield], author unknown. Reports on the Edward Thomas centenary cycle ride. With ink annotation

Letters from the British Library, Bodleian Library, Battersea District Library, The Western Front Association and Poems on the Underground to Alan Martin

DP/ETF/3/13
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1978 - 1988

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Typescript for talk "Edward Thomas at St Paul's School" by Bryan Robson, Head of English at St Paul's School

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1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Typescript for the Edward Thomas Centenary Lecture given by Andrew Motion

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3 March 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Given at Lincoln College, Oxford

Typescript of radio programme "Religion and Life: Painters, Poets and Musicians: Part 2: Edward Thomas" by Michael Sharpe

DP/ETF/4/13
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May 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Recorded on 31 August 1977 and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 24 January 1978. Includes covering letter from the BBC

Programme for one-day conference "Landscape of the Spirit: the poetry of Edward Thomas in its Hampshire setting"

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4 November 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Held at the University of Southampton Department of Adult Education

Edward Thomas Centenary Memorial Committee agenda

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19 January 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Held at Steep Vicarage

Photographs

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Subseries
1978 - c.2005

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Articles on the Dymock Poets and Dymock walks leaflets

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Subseries
1978 - 2003

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Ottewell, Gordon

Article "John Drinkwater: The office clerk who left his desk to become a poet of the Midland scene" by Gladys E Carr

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Autumn 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in This England

Article "A Window for Edward Thomas"

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5 January 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

With details of the subscription appeal for the Edward Thomas memorial window at Steep

Newspaper article "Excellent and melancholic poet" by Patric Dickinson

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9 March 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Times. Review of "Edward Thomas: A Poet for his Country" by Jan Marsh

Photocopy of newspaper article "Natural man" by Rachel Billington

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(c.1980s) March1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Financial Times. Review of "Edward Thomas: A Poet for his Country" by Jan Marsh

Handwritten copy of letter from Edward Eastaway Thomas to J W Hele offering to talk at St Paul's School

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5 January 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Letter from J W Hele to Edward Eastaway Thomas regarding arrangements for the talk at St Paul's School

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11 January 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

With annotations

Letter from J W Hele to Edward Eastaway Thomas confirming the date of 27 February for the visit to St Paul's School

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30 January 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Bryan Robson

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2 February 1978 - 5 February 1992

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Bryan Robson was Head of English at St Paul's School

Letter from Bryan Robson to Edward Eastaway Thomas thanking him and Myfanwy for visiting St Paul's School

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2 March 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Letter from Myfanwy Thomas to Edward Eastaway Thomas regarding letter from Michael Hurd on Ivor Gurney and filming for Southampton BBC TV at Steep

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30 January 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Newspaper cutting with radio listings for programme "No One So Much As You: Helen and Edward Thomas: A Love Story"

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27 September 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication unknown. Broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Compiled and introduced by Michael Ffinch

Typescript of extract from "The Church of England and the First World War" by Alan Wilkinson

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c.1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Discusses "As It Was" by Helen Thomas

Newspaper cutting with poem "From Steep Church" by Frederick Fryer

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1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication unknown. Written in memory of Edward Thomas

Article "Two poets: Edward Thomas and Richard Jefferies" by P J Kavanagh

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15 June 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Listener

Newspaper article "Birthdays" mentioning Edward Thomas and the launch of "Helen Thomas: Time & Again" at the Selborne Bookshop

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27 July 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the Southern Evening Echo

Article "Two Years a Poet" by Geoffrey Grigson

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23 November 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in Country Life. Book review of "The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas" edited by R G Thomas

Edward Thomas Fellowship

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1978 - 2004

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Edward Thomas Fellowship - Miscellaneous

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1978 - 2003

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Edward Thomas Fellowship Birthday Walks 1978, 1982 - 1985, 1988, 1994 - 2000, 2002

Various signed walk cards to Myfanwy Thomas 1986 - 2004

Autumn Walks 1982, 1988, 1991, 1994, 1995, 2001

Edward Thomas Fellowship Committee minutes 25 July 1986, 31 October 1986, 22 May 1993, 20 November 1993, 1 March 1997, 12 July 1997 and 28 February 1998

Edward Thomas Centenary Celebrations 4-5 March 1978

Photocopies of letters of protest and evidence submitted to The Edward Thomas Fellowship against the planned A3 road bypass in the Steep area c.1985

Edward Thomas Fellowship press release relating to the painting "Summer Evening Landscape from the Poet's Stone" by Mervyn Goode, including photograph of the painting. 1987

Programmes for ceremonies held at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery at Agny, France on 9 April 1992 and 6 October 2002

Edward Thomas Fellowship visit to the Imperial War Museum and Westminster Abbey 2 July 1993

Edward Thomas Fellowship seminar on Edward Thomas held at Lincoln College, Oxford 20 November 1993

Event "Music inspired by the poetry of Edward Thomas" 24 April 1999

Account of Edward Cawston Thomas's visit to Buffalo University, New York State to view the Edward Thomas holdings, 1999

Printout of The Edward Thomas Fellowship website 14 February 2000

Edward Thomas Fellowship Study Day at Kingham Village Hall 6 July 2002

Edward Thomas Fellowship Study Day at the University of Gloucestershire 12 July 2003

"Forest Flowers: An early poem recovered" booklet

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1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

A booklet printed in celebration of the Friends of Amherst College's first decade. "Forest Flowers" is printed as it first appeared, in The Pinkerton Annual,1917. The booklet includes an extra leaf, made necessary when after printing this booklet, an earlier version of "Forest Flowers" entitled "Tutelary Elves" was found

Article "Centenary of poet who died in battle"