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Programmes and information for various events including "Edward Thomas and Contemporary Poetry: A One-day Conference" 12 March 2005, the Friends of the Dymock Poets Spring Day 25 March 2006, production of "The Songs I Had... A portrait in scenes and music of the First World War composer Ivor Gurney", "Visions and Thanksgiving: A concert in St Mary's Church, Dymock" 6 October 2012, "The Poetic Voices of John Drinkwater" talk 5 October 2013, "Return to Adlestrop" 24 June 2014, "Dymock 1914 Remembered" 11 - 12 July 2014, "The Dymock Poets and the impact of the First World War: An illustrated talk by Linda Hart" 15 November 2014 and "1914: Songs and poetry of World War I" by The Trench Choir. Includes pencil annotations

Evelyn Maitland Roy was born in 1908 in Southampton and brought up in the Wirral. She attended West Kirby County High School for Girls before undertaking a two-year teacher-training course at St Mary’s, Cheltenham from 1928 to 1930 taking PE as her main subject.

Evelyn held teaching posts in Wirral before the war and also achieved great personal success in swimming and diving locally, eventually becoming an instructor and judge. In 1940 she won a scholarship with the English-Speaking Union for their Summer School at Chautauqua in New York State. In her spare time, Evelyn liked to write and had many articles published in newspapers and magazines. In 1944 she was appointed teacher of Girls’ PE at Alleyne’s Grammar School, Stone, Staffordshire for a year and then became County Organiser for Flintshire for the Land Army. She returned to teaching and spent six years from 1948 working at British Army Schools in Greece, Malta, Austria and Libya.

Following retirement from full-time work in 1974 at the age of sixty-five, Evelyn became one of the first students of the Open University and was awarded an Honours Degree in 1981. She kept active both physically and mentally, going for long walks with her Sheltie dogs, coaching children, reading and writing her journal. She died at the age of ninety-eight in 2007.

Published by Thomas Evans

Published by Longmans, Green & Company

Inscribed "Evelyn L L Argent, Saffron Walden College, Birmingham"

Published by J M Dent & Sons Limited

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

Includes letter from "Judy" to Edward Eastaway Thomas accompanying the essay. With pencil annotations

Correspondence between Jeremy Rees and Espresso Education, a company collecting websites relevant to the National Curriculum to be accessed by schools via subscription to their servers

Photocopies of the original envelopes containing the letters

Photographer unknown. Two postcards missing

Agency: Associated Newspapers

Also used as a rough work book

Includes map of the route, press releases and newspaper cuttings

Dymock. Includes map of the route

Inscribed "G H Shaw" and "H E Hartop"

Published by Edward Arnold & Company

Correspondence mainly from Eleanor Farjeon to Rowland Watson. Includes items she sent to Rowland including a typescript of an article she wrote for the Manchester Guardian on Edward Thomas in 1937, a handlist of collected works presented to Hampstead Public Libraries in 1960, newspaper clippings, typescript foreword to "The Green Roads" and "You Come Too", photocopy of chapter "My Latter Years" by Eleanor Farjeon from "The Book of Leisure" by John Pudney, typescript of "The White House at Flansham (Its Roots and Branches)", and a mounted black and white photograph of the memorial stone on the Shoulder of Mutton, Steep in 1949