Newspaper article "Poets' Holiday in the Shadow of War" by Helen Thomas
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- 3 August 1963
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Published in The Times. Recounts the journey to Dymock in August 1914
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Newspaper article "Poets' Holiday in the Shadow of War" by Helen Thomas
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Published in The Times. Recounts the journey to Dymock in August 1914
Newspaper article "The Discovery of W H Davies" by Helen Thomas
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
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Published in The Sunday Telegraph
Letter from Christopher Hassall to Michael Gibson
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Further condolences on the death of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Newspaper article "Wilfrid Gibson, people's poet"
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Published in The Guardian, author unknown. Claims Krindlesyke to have been his masterpiece, after which "the force of his art seemed to have declined". It dismisses his inclusion as a Georgian Poet, claiming his methods and aims to be quite different to the other poets within the group. It mentions his association with Lascelles Abercrombie
"The Prophets Really Prophesy as Mystics, The Commentators Merely by Statistics" Christmas greeting
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Annual Christmas greeting from Robert Frost. 17,055 copies printed by The Spiral Press, New York. This was one of the 630 copies printed with Frost's name as the sender
Newspaper article "Wilfrid Gibson"
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Published in The Sunday Telegraph. Obituary for Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Newspaper obituary of Ralph Hodgson written by Helen Thomas
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Letter from Christopher Hassall to Michael Gibson
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"
Newspaper article "Mr Wilfrid Gibson: Trenchant Poet of the Poor"
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Published in The Times, author unknown. Obituary for Wilfrid Wilson Gibson that praises him as the "poet of the inarticulate poor" and comments on his relationship with the other Dymock Poets and on his success in America
Newspaper clipping "Wilfrid Gibson"
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Letter published in the Yorkshire Post from B S Page, the Keeper of the Brotherton Collection, University of Leeds, commenting on the donation by D U McGrigor-Phillips [Dorothy Una Ratcliffe] of a collection of letters and poems by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Letter from Helen Thomas to Eleanor Farjeon
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Publication and author unknown. Comments on the assignment of copyright of Brooke's poems to de la Mare, Abercrombie and Gibson and the future intentions of the three holders of the Brooke estate Sir John Sheppard, Christopher Hassall and Sir Geoffrey Keynes
Photocopy of letter from Edward Thomas to "My dear friend"
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Gives Christmas greetings to unknown recipient, Mrs Williams and Miss John. Gives details of his attachment to the 244th Siege Battery and describes operations at Romney Marsh as well as how his son Mervyn is prospering at home
Photocopy of letter from Edward Thomas to "My dear friend"
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Written to an unknown recipient describing conditions on the Western Front, stating "I should like to come home some day, but do not exactly expect to, though I know I have a fair chance". Send love to Mrs Williams and Miss John
Copy of blueprint for the Edward Thomas memorial plaque at Berryfield Cottage
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Reads "Here lived Edward Thomas: Poet Born 1878 Died 1917"
Photographs of Edward Thomas's grave at Agny War Cemetery, France
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Photographer unknown
Page from biography book detailing Edward Thomas and Helen Thomas
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
With pencil annotation
"Accidentally on Purpose" Christmas greeting
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Annual Christmas greeting from Robert Frost. 10,600 copies printed by The Spiral Press, New York. This was one of the 600 copies printed with Frost's name as the sender. The poem was collected in "The Clearing" published 1962
Photocopied list of Edward Thomas letters deposited at Battersea Library by Rowland Watson
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
With ink annotation
Photocopy of Edward Thomas Memorial Fund accounts year ending 31 December 1937
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
£245 10s 4d received in subscriptions. Compiled by Gibson, Harris, Prince & Co. Chartered Accountants
Photograph of pencil sketch of Edward Thomas by Ernest Henry Thomas
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Signed by his brother Ernest Henry Thomas, dated 2 August 1905
Photographer unknown
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Published by The Cranbrook Tower Press, London. Signed limited edition copy number 100A of 999. Inscribed "May 17th 1966: Daisy Kennedy Drinkwater: (and, later on, for Tanya Moiseiwitch Krish)"
"A-Wishing Well" Christmas greeting
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Annual Christmas greeting from Robert Frost. 10,760 copies printed by The Spiral Press, New York. Includes wood engravings by Thomas W Nason. This was one of the 600 copies printed with Frost's name as the sender. The poem was collected in "The Clearing" published 1962
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
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Annual Christmas greeting from Robert Frost. 9,155 copies printed by The Spiral Press, New York. Includes wood engravings by Stefan Martin. This was one of the 660 copies printed with Frost's name as the sender. The poem was collected in "The Clearing" published 1962
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
Newspaper article "The man who talks about the perigrine machine" by David Holloway
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Published in the News Chronicle. An interview with Robert Frost conducted during his visit to England in 1957
Newspaper article "New England Poet"
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Published in The Observer. A profile of Frost's life and career published at the time of Frost's visit to England in 1957
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
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
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"
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Published in The Daily Telegraph United States Supplement. A fictional debate between an American and an Englishman over the relative cultural maturity of America in which the American cites the poems of Robert Frost as evidence of that maturity
Typescripts of letters from E H W Meyerstein to Walter de la Mare
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Recipients referred to as "de la Mare" and "Jack". Letters dated 11 August 1938 - 5 November 1946. Includes covering letter from Watson to his daughter Sanchia and son-in-law Lyn accompanying the typescript which he describes as "Eddie's letters to De La M", dated 9 July 1956
"Kitty Hawk" Christmas greeting
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Annual Christmas greeting from Robert Frost. 7,000 copies printed by The Spiral Press, New York. Includes woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi. This was one of the 525 copies printed with Frost's name as the sender. The final version of this poem was collected in "The Clearing" published 1962
Newspaper article "He Went, Singing" by Oliver Edwards
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Published in The Times. A review of the life and works of Edward Thomas with references to Helen Thomas's "As it Was" and "World Without End"
Article "Memories of a Poet's Wife by Mrs Lascelles Abercrombie"
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Published in The Listener. Written by Catherine Abercrombie
"Oliver Cromwell: a play" by John Drinkwater
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Published by Sidgwick & Jackson Limited, London
"From a Milkweed Pod" Christmas greeting
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Annual Christmas greeting from Robert Frost. 5,076 copies printed by The Spiral Press, New York. Includes wood engravings by Thomas W Nason. This was one of the 425 copies printed with Frost's name as the sender. This poem was collected in "The Clearing" published 1962
"One More Brevity" Christmas greeting
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Annual Christmas greeting from Robert Frost. 4,501 copies printed by The Spiral Press, New York. Includes decorations by Philip Grushkin. This was one of the 375 copies printed with Frost's name as the sender. This poem was collected in "The Clearing" published 1962
Memories of Edward Thomas manuscript
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Typescript of manuscript of memories of Edward Thomas collected by Rowland Watson. Includes ink annotations
Obituary for Sir Theodore Thomas in The Times
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Typed extract recounting a visit by Wilfrid Gibson to Rupert Brooke at Grantchester
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Includes a description of how Brooke wrote poetry. With ink annotations
Newspaper article "Robert Frost in England: Poets in the West Midlands" by Louis Mertins
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Published in the Manchester Guardian. Focuses on Frost's time in England and its effect both on his career, and on the lives of Gibson, Brooke, Abercrombie and Thomas. Describes Frost's rise to fame and the importance of John Haines as his "constant champion"
Typed extract reporting reluctance of Wilfrid Gibson to show his work to Walter de la Mare
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Quotes Gibson "I didn't show [the songs] to de la Mare because they weren't finished when he was here, and anyhow he is quite out of sympathy with my work at anytime... But it is better to have a friend than to write the loveliest song in the world". With ink annotations
Typescript of poem "To Wilfrid Gibson"
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Stanzas include "No Pious Dream", "The Tale of Toil" and "Deaths Many"
"Doom to Bloom" Christmas greeting
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Annual Christmas greeting from Robert Frost. 3,750 copies printed by The Spiral Press, New York. This was one of 400 copies printed with Frost's name as the sender. With wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg. The poem was collected in "The Clearing" published 1962 with the title "Our Doom to Bloom"
Typescript letters from Edward Thomas to "Dad" David Uzzell
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Typescript of original letters. With ink annotation