Newspaper article "Wilfrid Gibson"
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- 27 May 1962
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Published in The Sunday Telegraph. Obituary for Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
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Newspaper article "Wilfrid Gibson"
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Published in The Sunday Telegraph. Obituary for Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Newspaper article "In Good Voice" by J C Trewin
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
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
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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"
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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
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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"
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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"
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Publication and author unknown. Review of "Coldknuckles" praising its "pace...sureness...and characterisation"
Article "Wilfrid Gibson" by Walter de la Mare
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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
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Publication unknown
Letter from Dorothy Una Ratcliffe to Wilfrid Wilson Gibson describing a meeting with Hugh MacDiarmid
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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""
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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
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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
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Publication unknown. The marriage took place on 9 December 1913 at St Bartholomew's Church, Dublin
Newspaper article "Mr Gibson's Poetry"
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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
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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
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Further condolences on the death of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Letter from Christopher Hassall to Michael Gibson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Morgan recalls Frost as being "half farmer, half professor"
Christmas greeting from John and Daisy Drinkwater, probably to Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
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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
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Loose pages. With pen and ink and pencil annotations by Lascelles Abercrombie
Proof copy of "Twelve Idyls and Other Poems" by Lascelles Abercrombie
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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
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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
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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
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Annotated by Lascelles Abercrombie. Bound book with inserted loose pages
"Autumn in Malvern Festival" programmes
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Article "Loitering hours" by Benjamin Miller
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Published in "Poetry News: The newsletter of the Poetry Society"
Leaflet "Visit the Dymock Poets Exhibition" at St Mary's Church, Dymock
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Photocopy of draft "Edward Thomas at War" by Jean Moorcroft Wilson
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Includes postcard from Jean to Jeff Cooper
Typescript for talk on James Elroy Flecker
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Includes various poems by James Elroy Flecker. Annotated
Images of Helen Thomas, Geraldine Gibson and Eleanor Farjeon
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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"
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Includes annotations
"One Another's Guide: Robert Frost and Edward Thomas"
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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"
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Includes photocopies of documents held at Gloucestershire Archives
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Includes note from Colin to Jeff Cooper
Photocopy and typescript of letter from Edward Thomas to Joe Jefferson Farjeon
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Letter thanking Joe for the tobacco he had sent. Annotated by Anne Harvey
Letter from Helen Thomas to Eleanor Farjeon
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"Quality Totals" possibly written by Herbert Farjeon
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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
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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
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Handwritten in pencil. Letters written amongst the Farjeon - Bax set
Poem "Venetian C[?]" by Clifford Bax and Herbert Farjeon
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Handwritten in pencil in Venice
Photocopy of book chapter "Walking with Edward Thomas" by Eleanor Farjeon
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Publication unknown
Photocopy of article "The Summer of 1914"
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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
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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"
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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
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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"