Special Collections and Archives

Published letter "The England of Edward Thomas" by Kim Taplin

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21 December 1979

Published in the Times Literary Supplement. Written in response to Donald Davie's article "Lessons in honesty"

Published letters relating to Adlestrop station

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undated

Includes details of personal reminiscences of Adlestrop. One letter regarding the Adlestrop name board with photograph is annotated by Edward Eastaway Thomas "On the original station the seat would NOT have been under the name board!"

Published letters under heading "Edward Thomas" by Donald Davie, Humphrey Clucas and John Lucas

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1 February 1980

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the Times Literary Supplement. Ongoing letters concerning the original article by Donald Davie and replies from Kim Taplin and Roy Fuller

"Quality Totals" possibly written by Herbert Farjeon

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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]

Radio listing for programme "A Closer Look"

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8 August 1982

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication unknown. Poet Vernon Scannell discusses Edward Thomas's poems "Old Man" and "Thaw". Broadcast on Radio 3. With ink annotation

Radio listing for programme "Inspiration"

DP/ETF/1/6/8
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13 March 1983

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication unknown. Ludovic Kennedy interviews Myfanwy Thomas. With ink annotation

Rap version of the poem Adlestrop by Edward Thomas, written by Bill Greenwell

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2007

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Report of accessions to the National Library of Wales 1991-1992 including papers relating to Edward Thomas

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c. March 1992

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Refers to early correspondence with James Ashford Noble, his diaries, correspondence with Helen Thomas and pocket books containing draft poems

Report of event "A Pine in Solitude" at the Purcell Room, South Bank, London

DP/ETF/1/6/3
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February 1982

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Illustrated London News. Readings of prose and poetry associated with Edward Thomas held on 25 February 1978

Reprinted portrait photograph of Edward Thomas

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(c.1980s) 1913

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photographer unknown

Review of "One of These Fine Days: Memoirs of Myfanwy Thomas" by R George Thomas

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1982

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in Poetry Wales volume 18 number 1

Review of stage production "The Dark Earth and the Light Sky" by Jean Moorcroft Wilson

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29 November 2012

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in Camden New Journal Review. Performed at the Almeida Theatre

"Robert E Lee: a play in nine scenes" by John Drinkwater

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1948

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Sidgwick & Jackson, London

"Robert Frost Speaks Departmentally" booklet

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24 October 1965

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

This booklet was produced to commemorate the dedication of the Robert Frost Library, October 24 1965. Includes extracts from two letters written in 1935 from Frost to George Frisbee Whicher when Frost was trying to finish and name the poem "Departmental". A facsimile of the poem is included. An amended "Departmental" was published in "A Further Range" in 1936

"Robert Frost's Clouded Image" by James Armstrong and Linda Hart

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11 May 1998

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Dymock Poets Archive & Study Centre Occasional Paper 5

Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education

"Rupert Brooke 1887-1915: Towards a complete checklist of his publications" compiled by Jeff Cooper

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2004

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by White Sheep Press

"Rupert Brooke: The Unimpeded Self" by Seán Street

DP/A/3/1
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22 January 1996

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Dymock Poets Archive & Study Centre Occasional Paper 1

Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education

Sale brochure for The Red House, Hampshire

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c.1995

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

By James Harris Chartered Surveyors

Sale catalogue entry for a holograph letter made by Edward Thomas of a letter to W B Parker of Houghton Mifflin

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January 1980

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

From catalogue 104 G F Sims Rare Books

Describes Parker's decline of "Horae Solitariae" and Thomas's reply "Many thanks for the gentle muffled blow you have delivered"

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

Second Edward Thomas Autumn Walk itinerary

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27 September 1981

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

"Where the West Begins: the Quantocks Walk". Includes map of the route and photocopy of newspaper article on the walk

Second Edward Thomas Birthday Walk itinerary

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1974

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Seventeenth Edward Thomas Birthday Walk itinerary

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5 March 1989

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes map of the route and two typescript talks

Seventh Edward Thomas Autumn Walk itinerary

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5 October 1986

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Sussex. Includes map of the route

Seventh Edward Thomas Birthday Walk itinerary

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4 March 1979

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

"Shakespeare's Songs" by William Shakespeare

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1915

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by The Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford upon Avon. Limited edition copy 199 of 500. Inscribed "Tanya from John Drinkwater 1934"

Sheet music "A Second Dymock Trilogy" composed by Bob May

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September 2008

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes Elizabeth's Song by Lascelles Abercrombie; The Sun Used to Shine by Edward Thomas; The Soldier by Rupert Brooke

Sheet music for poem "Sound is a Memory" by Sean Street

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c.2000s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Music by Amanda Ballard. Dedicated "for Bob May and the Friends of the Dymock Poets"

Sheet music "Into the Unknown: Song-cycle for high voice to poems by Edward Thomas" by P W Duffy

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c.1980s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Handwritten. Initially sent to Myfanwy Thomas by Mr P W Duffy

Sheet with articles on Edward Thomas

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1977

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

"Old white horse" by P J Kavanagh, review of The Diary of Edward Thomas published by The Whittington Press. Includes wood engraving by Hellmuth Weissenborn

Wood engraving by Hellmuth Weissenborn from The Diary of Edward Thomas. Published in The Times 1977

"Behind the Arras" published in The Daily Telegraph on 29 June 1977. Describes how engraver Hellmuth Weissenborn fought in the same sector as Edward Thomas during World War I

"Front-line poet", review of The Diary of Edward Thomas by Jan Marsh. Published in The Daily Telegraph 30 June 1977

Sheet with printed poems "Adlestrop", "The Sun Used to Shine" and "Words" and passage by Edward Thomas describing walking the Gloucestershire landscape with Robert Frost and his decision to go to war