Special Collections and Archives

Photographs of Northumberland landscapes by Gibson & Son

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c.1890s

Scenes include Hexham, Hadrian's Wall and a Roman milestone on the Roman road at Chesterholme. One photograph annotated on reverse

Photographs of Rupert Brooke by Sherril Schell

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c.1910s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Mounted with pencil annotations

Photograph of the painting "Oaitepeha Bay, Tahiti" by William Hodges

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c.1920s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Annotated on reverse "For Wilfrid from Eddie: a photograph of Rupert's favourite picture at Admiralty House"

Photographer unknown

Newspaper advert for "The Outpost" by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

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25 August 1945

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

An advert by Oxford University Press for the release of the second impression of "The Outpost", including quotations of reviews by "The Friend", and "John o'London's Weekly"

Book jacket for "Coldknuckles" by Wilfrid Gibson

DP/MG/6/4
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1947

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Pencil inscription "Michael Gibson, 33, Nella Rd, W6"

Programme for the unveiling of a memorial to the First World War poets at Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey

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11 November 1985

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Scrap of paper with signatures of Lascelles Abercrombie, Walter de la Mare and Edward Marsh

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10 January 1931

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Programme and invitation to the unveiling of the John Drinkwater Memorial Bronze

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23 October 1937

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Held at Leytonstone Branch Library in the presence of Mrs Drinkwater and the Earl of Sandwich. Includes invitation card sent to Wilfrid Gibson, with annotation by him on reverse

Photocopy of "The Jolly Drover" by Edward Thomas

DP/MT/1/3/3
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(c.1990s) 1911

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Open Window "(Locke-Ellis)"

With pencil annotation

Photocopy of excerpt from booklet "Our Allies and Enemies" edited by Herbert Strang

DP/MT/1/3/6
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(c.1990s) c.1915

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Discusses the combatant countries and their resources during the First World War

Photocopy of article "Edward Thomas" by E S P Haynes

DP/MT/1/3/11
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(c.1990s) June 1917

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the English Review volume 24

Photocopy of chapter "Edward Thomas" from "Studies in Contemporary Literature" by H G Wright

DP/MT/1/3/12
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(c.1990s) 1918

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Typescript extract from "Talks with Thomas Hardy at Max Gate 1920 - 1922" by Vere H Collins

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(c.1990s) 1928

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Extract on Thomas Hardy's views on Edward Thomas. Talk dated 9 April 1920. Annotated

Photocopy of article "The Sense of the Past in Edward Thomas" by Herbert G Wright

DP/MT/1/5/4
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(c.1990s) September 1932

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Welsh Outlook

Photocopy of article "An Hour With Books: Edward Thomas: A Welsh Poet in Gloucestershire" by John Haines

DP/MT/1/5/6
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(c.1990s) 16 February 1935

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Discusses Edward Thomas and his conversion to poetry

Photocopies of articles "The Ellipse of Autumn: St Michael and Al Hallows" and "The Two Ages of the Christmas Carol" by Laurence Whistler

DP/MT/1/6/5
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(c.1990s) October - December 1947

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the Surrey County Journal

Photocopy of extract from "Ouida" by Max Beerbohm

DP/MT/1/7/3
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(c.1980s) c.1950s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

With annotations by Myfanwy Thomas

Photocopy of article "Profile: New England Poet" by Michael Peto

DP/MT/1/7/8
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(c.1980s) 16 June 1957

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Observer. Details Robert Frost after being conferred with DLitts by Oxford University and Cambridge University in 1957

Newspaper article "The Discovery of W H Davies" by Helen Thomas

DP/MT/1/8/1
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27 March 1963

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Times. Discusses Edward Thomas's discovery of W H Davies after reading "The Soul's Destroyer"

Newspaper cutting with parody of poem Adlestrop reflecting the Beeching railway cuts

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31 March 1963

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Sunday Telegraph

Page from book "Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series, Volume 10" describing Lawrance Thompson and his Robert Frost biography "The Later Years: 1938-1963"

DP/MT/1/9/11
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c.1977

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

With ink annotations

Newspaper article "Diary tells of chaffinches, rooks, shell and shrapnel" by Philip Howard

DP/MT/1/9/12
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c.1977

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication unknown. Describes the diary of Edward Thomas

Typescript of extract from "The Church of England and the First World War" by Alan Wilkinson

DP/MT/1/9/19
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c.1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Discusses "As It Was" by Helen Thomas

Newspaper cutting with poem "From Steep Church" by Frederick Fryer

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1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication unknown. Written in memory of Edward Thomas

Article "Two poets: Edward Thomas and Richard Jefferies" by P J Kavanagh

DP/MT/1/9/24
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15 June 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Listener

Newspaper article "Birthdays" mentioning Edward Thomas and the launch of "Helen Thomas: Time & Again" at the Selborne Bookshop

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27 July 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the Southern Evening Echo

Article "Two Years a Poet" by Geoffrey Grigson

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23 November 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in Country Life. Book review of "The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas" edited by R G Thomas

Newspaper article "The Edward Thomas Birthday Walk"

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24 February 1979

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Bookseller, author unknown. Discusses the seventh annual Edward Thomas Birthday Walk

Photocopy of article "On Editing Edward Thomas" by John Pikoulis

DP/MT/1/10/4
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(c.1980s) c.1980s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication unknown. Discusses the editing of "The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas" by R George Thomas

Photocopy of portion of article discussing Edward Thomas's poetry

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

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication unknown. Handwritten note in pencil "Edna Longley?"

Photocopy of article "In the countryside of Edward Thomas" by John Sears

DP/MT/1/10/7
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(c.1980s) c.1980s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication unknown. Includes description and images of Steep, Berryfield Cottage, the Shoulder of Mutton and The New House

Photocopy of excerpt from "A Relation of Elected Friends"

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(c.1980s) c.1980s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Author unknown. Discusses the relationship between Edward and Helen Thomas with quotations from Robert Frost. Includes a note from Myfanwy Thomas "Can't imagine where this came from or who sent it. Someone who's really 'got it in for Mother'. What a cheap & nasty piece'

Photocopy of chapter "Six letters from Robert Frost to Edward Thomas" by R George Thomas

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(c.1980s) c.1980s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication unknown

Photocopy of article "Literary walks in East Hampshire"

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(c.1980s) c.1980s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication unknown. Includes handwritten note "Myfanwy - I just send you this for interest. A"

Photocopy of article "Another Selborne special for the philatelist"

DP/MT/1/10/31
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(c.1980s) 31 July 1984

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

By Anne Mallinson. Includes information on stamps to commemorate the first mail coach from Bristol to London on 2 August 1784 and Gilbert White who lived in Selbourne

Offprint "Robert Frost: The Unpublished Cardinal Letter" by William R Evans

DP/MT/1/10/39
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March 1987

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in American Literature volume 59 number 1. Refers to a letter Robert Frost wrote to Harold Roy Brennan in 1925 about his influence on Edward Thomas

Photocopy of article "Obituary: Sir William Haley: Enemy of moral compromise in the Press"

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(c.1980s) 8 September 1987

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Times. Includes handwritten note "A great champion of E & H T"

"Forest Flowers: An early poem recovered" booklet

DP/ET/5/3/12
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1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

A booklet printed in celebration of the Friends of Amherst College's first decade. "Forest Flowers" is printed as it first appeared, in The Pinkerton Annual,1917. The booklet includes an extra leaf, made necessary when after printing this booklet, an earlier version of "Forest Flowers" entitled "Tutelary Elves" was found

Leaflet with details of All Saints' Church, Steep, Petersfield, Hampshire

DP/ET/6/1
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c.1970s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes description and history of the church. Hand printed by Bedales Press

Essay "Edward Thomas: One Road to Personal Expression" by "Judy"

DP/ET/6/7
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10 April 1986

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes letter from "Judy" to Edward Eastaway Thomas accompanying the essay. With pencil annotations

Photocopy of sale notice for 23 letters between Edward Thomas and David Uzzell

DP/ET/7/1
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(c.1970s) 15 June 1938

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Sold by The Frank Hollings Bookshop with a guide price of £15

Photocopy of sheet music "The Night Songs of Edward Thomas" by Michael Hurd

DP/ET/8/2
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(c.1980s)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Initially sent to Myfanwy Thomas by Mr P W Duffy

Black and white photograph of a painting of a landscape, possibly the Shoulder of Mutton at Steep

DP/ET/9/8
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c.1990s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photographer unknown

Article "Tribute to a Poet: The Edward Thomas Window at Eastbury" by Noel Carrington

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7 October 1971

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in Country Life. As the dedication date for the windows [16 October 1971] approaches, this article discusses how the idea for the window evolved, how money was raised and how it was designed and engraved. The article also discusses the relevance of the details of the Laurence Whistler design at the church of St James the Greater, Eastbury

Article "Centenary of poet who died in battle"