- DP/MT/3/79
- File
- 17 January 2002 - 6 March 2003
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
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Includes collection of poems "Cenotaph of Snow" by Michael Longley
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
Bryn Purdy - The Mellstock Press
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Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Kate Shearman - Everyman Paperbacks
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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
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
Grandson of Myfanwy Thomas
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
Refers to etchings, the poem "Calf Love", meetings with Alan Thomas [friend of Edward Thomas] and Helen Thomas, life since his wife died and his publications
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One letter undated and one dated 1947 which should be 1967. Refers to copying letters from Jack Haines and Robert Frost, and sympathy on the death of Helen Thomas [d.1967]
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Eckert was a biographer of Edward Thomas and wrote to Watson about Thomas. Includes newspaper cuttings and an article Eckert wrote on James Guthrie and The Pear Tree Press. Includes pencil annotations
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Letters from Robert P Eckert's widow. Includes news of Eckert's death with a newspaper obituary from The Times from 11 November 1966, and discusses a home for his Edward Thomas collection, which is now at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
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Refers to book on Meyerstein
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Refers to Robert P Eckert's death and Meyerstein
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Regards BBC radio broadcast on Edward Thomas by Bernard Price. Includes newspaper cuttings and pencil annotations
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Theresa Whistler was the second wife of artist Laurence Whistler, who designed the Edward Thomas memorial window at Eastbury. Refers to the "Memoirs of Edward Thomas" being compiled by Watson, and Meyerstein. Includes pencil annotations
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Includes booklet "Notes on Literature: Edward Thomas Selected Poems" by Roger O Iredale, typescripts of poems "To Edward Thomas" and "All Day it has Rained..." by Alun Lewis, and photocopied list of first editions for sale from Bertram Rota Limited, including "Horae Solitariae" by Edward Thomas
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Refers to visits, a memoir by Ellis Jenkins, Edward Thomas, letters between Eleanor Farjeon and Rowland Watson and an exhibition on Farjeon
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Typescript poems "Sunset on the Lake", "The Song of the Wind", "Souvenirs of Florence" attributed to Vernon Bartlett. Also includes a note by Rowland Watson stating he lived with Bartlett in Berlin from 1913-1914
Letters and postcards from Myfanwy Thomas
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Includes photograph of Helen Thomas and Miss Gwen John, President of the Swansea Literary Society, at a talk Helen gave to the Society in 1938, and a tribute to Anne Mallinson written by Myfanwy
Articles and Publications 1950s
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"Famous People I have Met: Rupert Brooke" by Lady Violet Bonham Carter, publication unknown c.1950s
Articles and Publications 1960s
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"The Poets of Steep" by David Gill published in Hampshire, December 1965
Photocopy of "An Engraved Window to Edward Thomas and Helen his Wife" by Laurence Whistler published in Book Collecting & Library Monthly number 16, August 1969. Includes letter from Myfanwy Thomas explaining the origins of the memorial window appeal
Articles and Publications 1970s
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Articles and Publications 1980s
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Original manuscript of poem "Walking Tom" and related items
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Pencil original written alternatively by Clifford Bax and Herbert Farjeon and including crossings out and re-workings, Venice September 1913. Missing page 1.
Also includes photocopy of a manuscript version held by the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre, University of Texas, Austin [who believed theirs was the original until this version was discovered amongst the Farjeon papers], photocopy of G F Sims (Rare Books) sale catalogue describing the Harry Ransom version, and photocopy of extracts from "Edward Thomas: The Last Four Years" referring to the poem
Administration regarding Robert Frost visit 1957
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Includes letter from Margaret Haferd, Librarian at the United States Information Service, American Embassy London, and poster and invitation to Robert Frost's lecture "Swinger of Birches" at the University of London
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Full notes of Eleanor Farjeon's last meeting with Robert Frost during his return to England in 1957 which were used as the basis for her foreward to Frost's posthumously published volume of poetry, "You Come Too" [original title "Come With Me"]. Written in Farjeon's hand in the margin "Robert Frost - written rapidly an[d)] inconsecutively - must be arranged in its order - Try to describe his way of talking"