Special Collections and Archives

Photocopy of article "Edward Thomas Remembered" by Myfanwy Thomas

DP/MT/1/10/1
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(c.1980s) c.1980s

Publication unknown. Describes the moment Helen Thomas learnt of Edward Thomas's death and her efforts to publicise his poetry

Article "Poet's corners" by Christopher Somerville

DP/MT/1/10/2
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c.1980s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication unknown. Describes one of The Edward Thomas Fellowship's birthday walks near Steep

Photocopy of handwritten extracts from "Gwili" by E Cefin Jones

DP/MT/1/10/3
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(c.1980s) c.1980s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Describes references to tea at Gwili Cottage. Includes photocopy of Welsh language article "Cofio Edward Thomas" by Ioan Mai Evans

Article "Battle lines"

DP/MT/1/10/11
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c.1980s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Author and publication unknown. Discusses the inclusion of W H Auden's poem "To ET" in the anthology "Elected Friends"

Photocopy of chapter "Company" from book "One of These Fine Days" by Myfanwy Thomas

DP/MT/1/10/12
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(c.1980s) c.1980s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Article "Birds and the Poems"

DP/MT/1/10/14
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c.1980s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Author unknown, written by a grandchild of Edward Thomas. Describes Yvonne Skargon's commission of six wood engravings to illustrate Edward Thomas's poems

Photocopy of article "Edward Thomas and Gwili... Faithful picture of a tinplater's home" by Llygad Llwchwr

DP/MT/1/10/18
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(c.1980s) c.1980s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication unknown. Discusses Gwili Cottage, Edward Thomas and the Jenkins family

Article "Edward Thomas: A Note on Lob" by John Adlard

DP/MT/1/10/21
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1980

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Offprint of "Archiv"

Article "Edward Thomas walk this weekend"

DP/MT/1/10/22
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29 February 1980

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in "The Herald". Discusses the eighth Edward Thomas birthday walk

Photocopy of excerpt from "Drawn from Life: A Memoir" by Robert Medley

DP/MT/1/10/26
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(c.1980s) 1983

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Mentions "The Poems of Edward Eastaway (Edward Thomas) published by Selwyn and Blount in 1917"

Photocopy of articles "The high noon of British bookishness" by Neil Berry and "The Final Word" by Patric Dickinson

DP/MT/1/10/36
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(c.1980s) November 1985

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in Books and Bookmen; Country Life. Both are book reviews of "Edward Thomas: A Portrait" by R George Thomas

Photocopy of article "The Third of March" by Michael Foster

DP/MT/1/10/38
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(c.1980s) 19 February 1987

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Lady. Describes the annual Edward Thomas birthday walk

Photocopy of article "Society Profile No 28: The Edward Thomas Fellowship"

DP/MT/1/10/44
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(c.1980s) Summer 1987

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication unknown

Photocopy of article "Edward Thomas in Texas" by Kenneth Millard

DP/MT/1/10/47
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(c.1980s) 1988

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the Oxford Magazine. Discusses collections at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas in Austin

Photocopy of article "Selborne Bookshop changes name and profile"

DP/MT/1/10/52
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(c.1980s) 6 May 1988

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Bookseller. Author unknown. Discusses the change in name from The Selborne Bookshop to The Selborne Cottage Shop by owner Anne Mallinson

Photocopy of book review on "The Art of Edward Thomas: Edited by Jonathan Barker" by Lawrence Normand

DP/MT/1/10/55
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(c.1980s) 1989

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Powys Review

Edward Thomas Fellowship - Newsletters

DP/MT/2/2
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1980 - 2004

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

The Edward Thomas Fellowship Newsletters October 1980, January 1982, August 1982, January 1983, August 1983, December 1983, February 1984, August 1984, December 1984, January 1985, July 1985, January 1986, August 1986, August 1987, February 1996, Spring 2001, January 2004

Index to The Edward Thomas Fellowship Newsletters October 1980 - January 1999

Drafts and related correspondence of selected newsletter articles

Rhoden Bickendike

DP/MT/3/14
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22 November 1980

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photocopies of information sheets "St Wilfrid and the monks of Lindisfarne", "Two Nuns of Northumbria: Hild of Whitby, "Ebbe of Coldingham", "The Four Brothers of Lindisfarne: Cedd, Cynebil, Caelin, Chad", "St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne", "St Aidan of Lindisfarne"

DP/BD/1/21
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(c.1990s) 1980

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published letter "Edward Thomas" by Roy Fuller

DP/ET/1/31
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11 January 1980

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the Times Literary Supplement in response to article by Donald Davie and letter from Kim Taplin

Photocopy of article "Salute to the Soldier Poets" by Stephen Garnett

DP/ET/1/43
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(c.1980s) Spring 1987

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in This England. Includes biographical details of Edward Thomas

Photocopy of article "Poetic possessions" by Katherine Bucknell

DP/ET/3/18
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(c.1980s) 22 May 1987

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the Times Literary Supplement. Review of exhibition "All Roads Lead to France: Edward Thomas 1879-1917" at the Imperial War Museum

Alison Lowbury

DP/RW/6/4
File
10 May 1980 - 28 July 1981

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Refers to a booklet on Alison's father, Andrew Young, and his correspondence with Rowland Watson, Meyerstein, Eleanor Farjeon and Clifford Bax

Typescript of MA thesis "The Life and Poetry of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (1878 - 1962) up to his participation in the poetry periodical "New Numbers" (1914)" by J R Wilson

DP/VD/1
Subseries
c.1980s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Submitted for an MA at the University of Birmingham

Negative of portrait image of Robert Frost originally taken c.1910

DP/VD/4
Subseries
c.1980s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photographer unknown

Eighth Edward Thomas Birthday Walk itinerary

DP/ETF/2/1/8
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2 March 1980

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes map of the route, details of the production "A Pine in Solitude: a portrait of Edward Thomas 1878 - 1917" by Anne Harvey and details of the formation of the Edward Thomas Fellowship

Signed Icknield Way Walk card

DP/ETF/2/3/8
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25 September 1980

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes mounted information on the Aston and Blewbury area, a map of the area and print of the painting "Picking Wild Flowers" by William Affleck

Poster for "Musical Mixture: A Mini Concert" at All Saints' Church

DP/ETF/4/22
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27 October c.1980s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Premier of "A Song of a Pub with No Name" by The Abinger Madrigal Singers, from the poem "Up the Wind" by Edward Thomas. Adapted and set to music by J T Darville

Signed programme for performance of "A Pine in Solitude: A Portrait of Edward Thomas (1878-1917)" at the Cheltenham Festival of Literature

DP/ETF/4/25
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25 October 1980

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Signed by the cast Annette Crosbie, Tom Durham, Benjamin Whitrow and Anne Harvey

Includes programme for the Cheltenham Festival of Literature 1980 and two tickets to the performance

Poems on the Underground poster for "Snow" by Edward Thomas

DP/ETF/7/7
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c.1980s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

In association with The Compton Poetry Fund, Faber and Faber Publishers Limited, The British Council, Greater London Arts and The British Library (Stefan Zewig Programme)

Photocopy of page from unknown sale catalogue with volumes by Edward Thomas

DP/ET/7/4
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(c.1980) 18 December 1980

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes proof and presentation copy of "Lafcadio Hearn", presentation copy of "Richard Jefferies" and first edition presentation copy of "The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans all inscribed by Edward Thomas to Walter de la Mare

Photocopy of sheet music "Sowing" with words by Edward Thomas and music by Ivor Gurney

DP/ET/8/3
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(c.1980s)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Initially sent to Myfanwy Thomas by Mr P W Duffy

Photocopy of sheet music "The Trumpet" poem by Edward Thomas and music by Owen Mace

DP/ET/8/7
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(c.1980s)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photocopy of sheet music "The Source" by Edward Thomas with music by Michael Tippett

DP/ET/8/9
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(c.1980s), 9 May 1984

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

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

DP/ETF/1/6/47
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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

Photocopy of Bertram Rota sale catalogue number 245 "The Great War 1914-1918"

DP/ET/7/5
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(c.1980s)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Annotated "From Carl Dons 12/88". Included for sale is a copy of "Background" by Franklin Lushington, inscribed to Helen Thomas in 1931. Lushington commanded the battery in which Edward Thomas was serving at the time of his death in April 1917. It was Lushington who provided the poet's widow with an account of her husband's burial: "As we stood by his grave the sun came and the guns round seemed to stop firing for a short time. This typified to me what stood out most in your husband's character - the spirit of quiet, sunny, unassuming cheerfulness"

Photocopy of sheet music "Dreams of Men: Four songs for high voice, oboe and piano" by Kenneth V Jones