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DP/MG/2/13
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27 May 1962

Published in The Sunday Telegraph. Obituary for Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

Newspaper article "In Good Voice" by J C Trewin

DP/MG/2/12
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31 August 1947

Published in The Observer. A review of "Coldknuckles" praising it as an "uncommonly expert story-poem, own cousin to the swift, surging narratives of Masefield". With pencil annotations

Newspaper article "Mr Gibson"

DP/MG/2/11
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13 June 1947

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the Manchester Guardian, author "H I'A F". A review of "Coldknuckles" praising Gibson's handling of the Northumbrian dialect. The cutting was forwarded to Frederick Mullen Ltd. and is glued to a pre-printed form

Newspaper article "Narrative in Verse"

DP/MG/2/9
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13 May 1947

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Daily Telegraph, author unknown. A review of Coldknuckles praising its "racy narrative" and comparing his characterisation to Thomas Hardy. With pencil annotations

Newspaper article "Northern Poem is Masterpiece" by David Martin

DP/MG/2/10
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8 June 1947

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in Reynolds Sunday. A review of "Coldknuckles" praising Gibson's use of "regional lore and dialect", whilst always maintaining a high level of "imagination and wordmanship"

Newspaper article "Dramatic Poem"

DP/MG/2/8
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c.1947

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in John O'London, author "W M". A review of "Coldknuckles", praising the "touch of magic in the description of his opening chapter"

Newspaper article "Mr Wilfrid Gibson's New Work"

DP/MG/2/7
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c.1947

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication and author unknown. Review of "Coldknuckles" praising its "pace...sureness...and characterisation"

Article "Wilfrid Gibson" by Walter de la Mare

DP/MG/2/6
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1938

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in "New Literature". Review of "Coming and Going", praising Gibson's "profound sympathy with, and understanding of the men whose destiny it is to make their living against long odds, in danger, difficulty, and often in despair"

Newspaper clipping of a crossword with "Wilfrid Gibson" as an answer

DP/MG/2/5
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c.1930s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication unknown

Letter from Dorothy Una Ratcliffe to Wilfrid Wilson Gibson describing a meeting with Hugh MacDiarmid

DP/MG/1/1/3
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12 October 1957

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Written from The Percy Arms Hotel, Otterburn, Northumberland. Recalls a recent meeting with the Scottish poet, Hugh MacDiarmid where they discussed Gibson's work, for which he expressed a "great liking" and Roy Campbell's which he "loathes". Dorothy Una Ratcliffe was editor of the Northern Broadsheet and a friend of Wilfrid's who was later to deposit a large collection of his material in the Brotherton Library, Leeds

Newspaper article "Mr Wilfrid Gibson's "Krindlesyke": A Northumbrian Elizabethan""

DP/MG/2/4
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28 April 1923

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the Southport Guardian, author unknown. A review of Krindlesyke, praising its "amazing vitality...elemental vigour... and exuberance of speech and action". The cutting was forwarded to Wilfrid Wilson Gibson by Macmillan & Co. Ltd. and is glued to headed paper

Article "Wilfred [sic] Wilson Gibson: Poet of Tenement and Trench" by Reverend John Haynes Holmes

DP/MG/2/3
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6 January 1917

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Possibly published in "The Survey". A review of Gibson's work, focusing on the "unpretentious" Daily Bread and Battle, described by Holmes as "war poetry of the future"

Newspaper announcement for the marriage of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson and Geraldine Townshend

DP/MG/2/2
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c. December 1913

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication unknown. The marriage took place on 9 December 1913 at St Bartholomew's Church, Dublin

Newspaper article "Mr Gibson's Poetry"

DP/MG/2/1
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8 May 1913

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the Times Literary Supplement, author unknown. A review of "Daily Bread", "Fires" and "Womenkind", with a review of Edward Thomas's "The Icknield Way" on the reverse

Letter from David I Masson, The Brotherton Library, to Michael Gibson

DP/MG/1/2/8
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8 November 1971

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Letter explaining the terms of deposit concerning access to the Wilfrid Wilson Gibson papers donated by Mrs McGrigor Phillips [Dorothy Una Ratcliffe] in 1958

Letter from Christopher Hassall to Michael Gibson

DP/MG/1/2/7
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3 July 1962

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Further condolences on the death of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

Letter from Christopher Hassall to Michael Gibson

DP/MG/1/2/6
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26 June 1962

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Expressing sympathy at the death of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson. He praises his "sweetness of nature" and "gentle, true poetic gift"

Letter from Christopher Hassall to Michael Gibson

DP/MG/1/2/5
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10 February 1958

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Thanking Michael for permission to publish letters from Wilfrid Wilson Gibson to Edward Marsh. Refers to trip to Wales to give recitals on Dylan Thomas and giving the Edward Marsh book to the publishers after 5 years and 1 month

Letter from Christopher Hassall to Michael Gibson

DP/MG/1/2/4
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7 February 1958

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Asking for permission quote from letters sent from Wilfrid Wilson Gibson to Edward Marsh for inclusion in his book

Letter from Christopher Hassall to Michael Gibson

DP/MG/1/2/3
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15 January 1958

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Gives thanks for the loan of a book and sketch of Edward Marsh drawn by Violet Duchess of Rutland, owned by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson and which appears on page 96 of Hassall's biography of Edward Marsh

Letter from Christopher Hassall to Michael Gibson

DP/MG/1/2/2
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c.1950s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Mentions a visit to 10 Downing Street which "may prove productive" and a form Wilfrid Wilson Gibson may receive relating to his finances that "may turn out to be of real importance to him"

Note from Wilfrid Wilson Gibson to his son Michael

DP/MG/1/2/1
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c.1930s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Handwritten poem written by Gibson to his son Michael

I've taken my own way through life and so
If you don't follow in my steps, dear son,
But blaze your own trail, 'twill be good to know
At least you're doing just what I have done

Letter from Eustace Morgan to Wilfrid Wilson Gibson regarding Robert Frost's visit to England

DP/MG/1/1/2
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22 May 1957

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Morgan recalls Frost as being "half farmer, half professor"

Christmas greeting from John and Daisy Drinkwater, probably to Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

DP/MG/1/1/1
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Christmas 1924

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

A printed poem by John Drinkwater, translated from the German of Edward Morike. Includes a handwritten message by John Drinkwater "From John and Daisy Drinkwater: Christmas 1924"

Proof copies of "The Sale of Saint Thomas in Six Acts" by Lascelles Abercrombie

DP/JC/3/1/5
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1930

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Loose pages. With pen and ink and pencil annotations by Lascelles Abercrombie

Proof copy of "Twelve Idyls and Other Poems" by Lascelles Abercrombie

DP/JC/3/1/3
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1928

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Loosely gathered pages within a plain cover. Pages are stamped "First Proofs: 14-16th June 1928: Wm. Brendon & son, Ltd.: Plymouth". With pencil annotations

Proof copy of "The Theory of Poetry" by Lascelles Abercrombie

DP/JC/3/1/2
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1923

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Loose pages 65 - 128 only. Stamped "revised proofs: 28 November 1923: Wm. Brendon & Son, Ltd.: Plymouth". With pencil annotations

Proof copy of "Progress in Literature" by Lascelles Abercrombie

DP/JC/3/1/4
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1929

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Loose pages within a cover. Pages are stamped "University Press Cambridge: 5 Apr 1929" and initialled "ERB". Annotated on back cover by Lascelles Abercrombie. Includes pencil annotations

Proof copies of the second edition of the three act play "Deborah" by Lascelle Abercrombie

DP/JC/3/1/1
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1922

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Annotated by Lascelles Abercrombie. Bound book with inserted loose pages

"Autumn in Malvern Festival" programmes

DP/JC/1/7/5
Item
2011-2014

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Article "Loitering hours" by Benjamin Miller

DP/JC/1/7/4
Item
2010

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in "Poetry News: The newsletter of the Poetry Society"

Leaflet "Visit the Dymock Poets Exhibition" at St Mary's Church, Dymock

DP/JC/1/7/2
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c.2000s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photocopy of draft "Edward Thomas at War" by Jean Moorcroft Wilson

DP/JC/1/6/10
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2014

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes postcard from Jean to Jeff Cooper

Typescript for talk on James Elroy Flecker

DP/JC/1/6/8
Item
c.2007

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes various poems by James Elroy Flecker. Annotated

Images of Helen Thomas, Geraldine Gibson and Eleanor Farjeon

DP/JC/1/6/7
Item
c.2000s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Five photocopied and printed images, mounted. Possibly accompanies typescript for talk "The Dymock Poets, Wives and Muses"

Typescript of talk "The Dymock Poets: Wives and Muses"

DP/JC/1/6/6
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c.2000s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes annotations

"One Another's Guide: Robert Frost and Edward Thomas"

DP/JC/1/6/5
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c.2000s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Timeline of the Thomas-Frost relationship. Includes photographs of both poets and poems "Iris by Night", "The Road Not Taken", "A Dream" and "The Sun used to Shine"

Typescript of talk about John Wilton [Jack] Haines to the Friends of the Dymock Poets "Ladders of Gold: Jack Haines glimpsed through the eyes of his Friends"

DP/JC/1/6/3
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c.2000s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes photocopies of documents held at Gloucestershire Archives

"John Jeffreys' settings of the poems from "Whin" by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson" by Colin Scott-Sutherland

DP/JC/1/6/1
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1996

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes note from Colin to Jeff Cooper

Photocopy and typescript of letter from Edward Thomas to Joe Jefferson Farjeon

DP/GF/5/5
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(c. 2000s) Christmas 1916

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Letter thanking Joe for the tobacco he had sent. Annotated by Anne Harvey

Letter from Helen Thomas to Eleanor Farjeon

DP/GF/5/1
Item
c.1960s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

"Quality Totals" possibly written by Herbert Farjeon

DP/GF/4/3
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c.1913

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Handwritten in pencil. Marks were awarded or deducted for certain personal qualities. Includes "Eleanor" [Farjeon], "Godwin" [Baynes], "Joe" [Farjeon], "Peter", "Clifford" [Bax], [Edward] "Thomas", "Arnold" [Bax], "Lynn", "Maitland", "Paul" [Corder] and "Stacy" [Aumonier]

Handwritten index, possibly a biography for Arnold Bax written by Herbert Farjeon

DP/GF/4/5
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c.1913

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Written in ink. References Stacy Aumonier and his wife Gertrude Peppercorn, Paul and Dolly Corder, Godwin Baynes, Edward Thomas, Bax and both Farjeons

Unfinished drama in the form of letters, written alternatively by Clifford Bax and Herbert Farjeon

DP/GF/4/4
Item
c.1913

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Handwritten in pencil. Letters written amongst the Farjeon - Bax set

Poem "Venetian C[?]" by Clifford Bax and Herbert Farjeon

DP/GF/4/2
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1913

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Handwritten in pencil in Venice

Photocopy of book chapter "Walking with Edward Thomas" by Eleanor Farjeon

DP/GF/1/9
Item
(c.1980s)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication unknown

Photocopy of article "The Summer of 1914"

DP/GF/1/8
Item
(c.1980s)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication and author unknown. A brief overview of the Dymock Poets period linked to Eleanor Farjeon's book "Edward Thomas: The Last Four Years"

Photocopy of article "Memories of a Poet's Wife" by Mrs [Catherine] Abercrombie

DP/GF/1/7
Item
(c.1980s) 15 November 1956

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Originally published in The Listener. A photocopied article of Catherine Abercrombie's recollections of life at the Gallows during the Dymock period with her impressions of the poets themselves

Magazine article "A Poet's Pilgrimage"

DP/GF/1/5
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c.1957

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication and author unknown. An illustrated account of Frost's return to Dymock in May 1957

Newspaper article "Names and Faces: Vermont Medal for Frost" by William Rollins

DP/GF/1/6
Item
22 March 1964

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the New York Herald Tribune. Report of the State of Vermont's striking of a memorial seal in honour of Robert Frost, Vermont's "poet laureate"

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