Essay "The Only Brother I Ever Had" by Linda Hart
- DP/VD/10
- Subseries
- c.1998
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Essay "The Only Brother I Ever Had" by Linda Hart
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Postcard showing Robert Frost stained glass window at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Newspaper articles on the Dymock Poets, St Mary's Church in Dymock and May Hill
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Article "A literary 'footnote'" by George Henderson published in The Citizen 23 December 1994
Photocopy of article "To the top of the singing hill" by Gerald Isaaman published in The Daily Mail's Weekend magazine 25 November 1995
Article "St Mary's draws poetic pilgrims" by George Henderson published in The Citizen 14 September 1996
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Photocopy of preface to the 1970 edition of Harold Munro's "Collected Poems" by Ruth Tomalin
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Photocopies of letters to John Wilton Haines
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Framed handwritten version of "Sonnet XLII from First & Second Love"
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Includes Eleanor Farjeon's signature. "First and Second Love" was published by Michael Joseph in 1947, the two loves being Stacy Aumonier and Edward Thomas
Sheet music relating to Edward Thomas
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Programme and sheet music for a concert "Music inspired by the poetry of Edward Thomas" at The Royal College of Music on 24 April 1999, hosted by The Edward Thomas Fellowship. Music includes:
"Dreams of Men: Four Songs for high voice, oboe and piano" by Kenneth V Jones
"The Source" by Edward Thomas and Michael Tippett
"Gone, Gone Again" by Edward Thomas
"Tall Nettles" by Edward Thomas
"Snow" by Edward Thomas and John Jeffreys [pencil annotation]
"Snow" by Edward Thomas and Ivor Gurney
"Prelude in D flat" by Ivor Gurney
"The Night Songs of Edward Thomas" by Michael Hurd
"Out in the Dark" by Edward Thomas and Edmund Rubbra
"Two Poems of Edward Thomas for S A T B Choir" by Howard Skempton. Commissioned by the Council for the Protection of Rural England in celebration of their 70th anniversary
"World Without End" by Trevor Hold. For the Crispian Trio in memory of Helen and Edward Thomas
"Early One Morning" by Trevor Hold
"Lights Out" by Ivor Gurney
Also includes "additional music found in the archives of Edward Eastaway Thomas after his death":
"The Cherry Trees" by Edward Thomas and Ivor Gurney
"The Bridge" by Edward Thomas and Edward Eastaway Thomas
"The Threshold of the New" by Mary Chandler
"The Trumpet" by Edward Thomas and Owen Mase
"The Huckster" by Edward Thomas and William Garnett
"Into the Unknown" by Edward Thomas and P W Duffy
Sheet music "Adlestrop" with words by Edward Thomas and music by Gordon Jacob
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Held at the McGregor Room-Alderman Library at the University of Virginia, May - June 1996
Documents relating to the Laurence Whistler window dedicated to Edward and Helen Thomas at Eastbury
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Letter from Myfanwy Thomas to Mr Batty regarding thanking him for his contribution to the window and inquiring if he is related to Mr Trevor Batty, who owned Ashford Chase at Steep before Lord Horder, 20 November 1969
Letter from Myfanwy Thomas to Mr Batty recounting the dedication of the memorial window at Eastbury, 7 November 1971
Information letter, circular and pamphlet with loose photograph of the memorial window
Article "Tribute to a Poet: The Edward Thomas Window at Eastbury" by Noel Carrington published in County Life October 1971
Framed prints of Edward Thomas at Oxford, Arras and a pencil drawing of Edward Thomas
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Frame one contains a printed portrait photograph of Edward Thomas whilst at Oxford c.1900 and a view of La Petit Place, Arras
Frame two contains a pencil drawing of Edward Thomas that hung on the study wall of Eric Norris
Photocopies of letters from Eleanor Farjeon to Rowland Watson
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Letters sent 20 June 1939, 25 November 1947 and 8 June 1952
CD "Bound for Glory: Songs and Piano Music on a Railway Theme" by Gordon Pullin and John Gough
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Includes Adlestrop by Edward Thomas with music by Gordon Jacob
Extract from "To the Memory of Edward Thomas" by James Guthrie
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Uncut title, contents, frontispiece portrait of Edward Thomas by Robin Guthrie, introductory note and first page of chapter "Edward Thomas: The Friend and the Artist"
Letters from Edward Thomas to Edward Clodd
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Discusses a commission of work and Thomas describes himself as "a young unknown editor"
Unpublished according to http://www.edward-thomas-fellowship.org.uk/downloads/Edward-Thomas-Letters-Index.pdf
Letter from Edward Thomas to C F Cazenove
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Previously unpublished letter from Thomas to his literary agent C F Cazenove. Describes his current works and confides his dislike for commissioned "hack work". The letter ends that "some sort of end is pretty well up above the horizon". Includes typed transcription
Unpublished according to http://www.edward-thomas-fellowship.org.uk/downloads/Edward-Thomas-Letters-Index.pdf
Typescript of play "The Unfathomable Deep" by Andrea Scott
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Characters include Edward Thomas, Helen Thomas, Eleanor Farjeon and Ivor Gurney
Letters from Myfanwy Thomas and Edward Eastaway Thomas to Alan Martin
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Kings and Queens was produced for the 50th anniversary of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II with contribution by Anne Harvey. Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 1 June 2003
A Nursery in the Nineties is the dramatised memoir of Eleanor Farjeon. Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour 26-30 May 2003. Contains episodes 1 - 3 of 5
Letter from Edward Thomas to Eleanor Farjeon
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Letter contained in book "The Prose of Edward Thomas" selected by Roland Gant. Volume inscribed "To dearest Joan from Nellie Christmas 1954" [Eleanor Farjeon's handwriting]
Letter published in "The Last Four Years" by Eleanor Farjeon, page 101. Responds to news that Eleanor's brother Herbert [Bertie] is to be married to Joan Thornycroft daughter of Sir Hamo Thornycroft RA, sculptor. Joan was also, via her aunt Theresa Sassoon née Thornycroft, first cousin to Siegfried Sassoon
CD "Cotswold Songs" by Colin Decio
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Features Evelyne Beech as soprano. Includes settings to poetry of John Drinkwater from "Tides", published 1917
PhD thesis "The Definition of Edward Thomas: The Poetry of Identity" by Christopher Saunders
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Unbound
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Published in Drinkwater's "Summer Harvest: Poems 1922-1933" anthology
Article "A Citizen of Eternity" by Matthew Hollis
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Published in The Guardian Review supplement. Documents the friendship between Robert Frost and Edward Thomas
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Edward Thomas quotation from "Thaw"
Deposited by Edward Cawston Thomas
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Letter from Myfanwy Thomas to Ken Watts [Edward Thomas Fellowship member]
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Thanks him for his study on her father Edward Thomas and recounts childhood memories about Arthur Ransome and his wife Ivy
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Includes accompanying letter from Pat Palmer, 17 June 2014
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Performed at the Almedia Theatre 8 November 2012 - 12 January 2013
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
In association with The Rupert Brooke Society, Festival Theatre, Cambridge Buddhist Centre, 11-13 December 2015
Framed pencil drawing of W H Davies [1871 - 1940] by John Wheatley [1892 - 1955], ARA
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Annotated on reverse "John Wheatley (Studio Collection) W H Davies" and stamped "The Guild of Master Craftsmen"
Also includes photocopy of page of "Painting in Newlyn" catalogue featuring an oil on canvas portrait of W H Davies
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Negative of portrait image of Robert Frost originally taken c.1910
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Photographer unknown
Photocopies and prints of images of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Includes photocopy of article "New book's tribute to the other Gibson" published in the Hexham Courant 19 January 1996. Images include studio shots of Gibson, pencil drawing of Gibson by Helen Wilson in 1928, Gibson aged 18, Geraldine and Wilfrid outside The Old Nail Shop, and interior images of The Old Nail Shop. With pencil annotations
Photographer unknown
Photographs of people and places associated with Laurie Lee
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Photographs annotated on reverse
Photograph of the exterior of Laurie Lee's birthplace in Uplands, Stroud
Photograph of the exterior of the London flat where Laurie Lee lived and wrote for 35 years
Photograph of the memorial to Laurie Lee "El Oranescritor" that stands on the sea front at Almuñécar, Spain
Photograph of Barbara Hooper interviewing Señor Manuel Mateos, who knew Laurie Lee in 1935, in Almuñécar, Spain
Photograph of mounted photograph of Laurie Lee in Africa c.1948 with inscription "Jan love from Laurie (The Desert Fox) Sahara"
Photographer unknown
Photograph album of sites associated with Edward Thomas, compiled by Anthony Berridge
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Photographs taken by Anthony Berridge between 1979-1983 of sites related to Edward Thomas. Identical album held in the Edward Thomas Collection at Cardiff University.
Includes loose photographs [some copyrighted images of Edward Thomas], list of photographs in album, "The Wandsworth Historian" with article on Edward Thomas December 1978 and "Common News: A Newspaper sponsored by Churches in South Battersea" February 1979
Also includes letter from Anthony Berridge to Myfanwy Thomas, 14 April 2000, and explanatory note from Richard Emeny of The Edward Thomas Fellowship, July 2003
Framed black and white portrait photograph of Edward Thomas c.1913
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Photographer unknown
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Photographer unknown
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Programme for talk "The English Years of Robert Frost" by Gabriel Woolf and Linda Hart
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Held at Chalfont St Giles Parish Church, as part of the Chalfont St Giles & Jordans Literary Festival 10 - 22 May 2016
Hart, Linda
"They Walked and Talked: A Dymock Poets' Collection" DVD
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
DVD of readings of poetry of the Dymock Poets. Filmed by Rachel Plant and produced by Cate Luck. 30 minutes running time
Canham, Ray
Catalogue of the papers of John Wilton Haines [Jack Haines] held at Gloucestershire Archives
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Gloucestershire Archives reference number D10828. Online version available via http://ww3.gloucestershire.gov.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=D10828&pos=3
Gloucestershire Archives
Edward Thomas - Robert Frost Letters
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Photocopies and typescripts of letters spanning virtually the whole course of the Thomas - Frost relationship until Thomas's death in 1917. Mainly written from Thomas to Frost, they cover domestic issues as well as thoughts on poetry and the work of other writers and Thomas's observations from France. Also included are a letter from Roger Ingpen to Frost immediately after Thomas's death discussing the publication of "Eastaway's poems" and one from Frost to Helen Thomas extolling the virtues of Thomas as "the bravest and best and dearest man you and I have ever known"
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection