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Handwritten stanza of poetry written by John Drinkwater on the back of a Lords cricket card

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c.1935

Written in pencil. Card for an England versus South Africa cricket match on 29 June 1935

Reads "Thus I survey the varied scene, And meditate upon the time, When proud Elizabeth was queen, and Shakespeare made his golden rhyme"

Letter from Robert Eckert Junior to Julian Thomas regarding binding of "The Woodland Life" in red

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1 August 1935

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

"Summer Harvest: Poems 1924-1933" by John Drinkwater

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1933

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Sidgwick and Jackson Limited, London. Inscribed "To Tanya with love from John Drinkwater November 1933"

"This Troubled World" by John Drinkwater

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1933

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Columbia University Press, New York. Inscribed "Tanya with love from John Drinkwater: Highgate Easter 1933"

"The Mabinogion" translated by Charlotte Guest

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1932

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by J M Dent and Sons Limited, London. Inscribed "Daisy darling from John her Jonathan [?] September 1932"

Handwritten poem "An Englishman's Song" by John Drinkwater

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14 June 1932

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Signed and annotated "For Tanya: John D: Finished at Brampton 14.vi.32"

Handwritten poems E[?] and "The Little Paradise" by John Drinkwater

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3-4 June 1932

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Written at Brampton. Signed and annotated "For Tanya"

Handwritten poem "The Fool" by John Drinkwater

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1932

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

With crossings-out and reworkings. Annotated "Brampton Summer 1932" and "For Tanya for Christmas 1932 from John Drinkwater: Highgate"

"The Week-End Book" edited by Vera Mendel, Francis Meynell and John Goss

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1931

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by The Nonesuch Press, London. Inscribed "For darling Tanya with lots of love from Auntie Jeff Christmas 1930. One horrible omission me enrages - no mention of J D within these pages"

"The Poems of Sidney Godolphin" edited by William Dighton

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1931

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by The Clarendon Press, Oxford. Inscribed "Tanya from John Drinkwater Nov 1934"

"Poetry and Dogma" by John Drinkwater

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1931

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published text of the Arthur Skemp Memorial Lecture at the University of Bristol delivered on 29 January 1931. Inscribed "Tanya from Big John Drinkwater 2.7.31"

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

"Anthology of Modern British Poetry" selected by Levin L Schückling

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1931

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Berhard Tauchnitz, Lepizig. Inscribed "For Tanya with love from Big [?] John Drinkwater"

Photograph of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson with his children in a garden

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c.1930s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Annotated on reverse

Photographer unknown

Information leaflet "A Memorial to Edward Thomas" by the Edward Thomas Memorial Fund Executive Committee

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c.1930s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Details the establishment of the fund and lists the Executive Committee as Eleanor Farjeon, John L Haines, Clifford Bax, Ian MacAlister, R F Cholmeley, William Rothenstein, Walter de la Mare and R L Watson

Printed illustration of traditional Northumbrian people with a stanza of poetry by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

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c.1930s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes stanza "Heather land and bent land, Black land and white, God bring me to Northumberland, The land of my delight". Includes handwritten list of illustrated characters by Gibson on reverse

Photograph of exterior of house "Gowan Bank" at Letchworth

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c.1930s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Annotated on reverse

Photographer unknown

Photographs of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson on-board Dorothy Una Ratcliffe's yacht "Sea Swallow"

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c.1930s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Three photographs of Gibson on-board the yacht and three photographs of the yacht itself

Typescript prose titled "Spring" by Helen Thomas

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c.1930s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

The beginning of a story about three children growing up on a farm

Mounted photograph of the exterior of The Red House

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c.1930s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Edward Thomas lived here with his family 1909-1913

Photographer unknown

Mounted photograph of the exterior of Yew Tree Cottage

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c.1930s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Edward Thomas lived here with his family 1913-1916

Photographer unknown

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

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c.1930s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication unknown

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

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1930

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

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

Note from Wilfrid Wilson Gibson to his son Michael

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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

Printed poem "The First Christmas by E H W Meyerstein"

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Christmas 1930

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Limited edition number 86 of 100 copies printed for R N Green-Armytage by Hilary Pepler at St Dominic's Press, Ditchling, Sussex. With pencil annotation

Typescript "It's Later than you Think"

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c.1930s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Observations on getting older extracted from "a retired officer's correspondence"

Letter from E H W Meyerstein to Mrs Fleming, also known as Dorothy L Sayers

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c.1930s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Discusses her perception that he has caused her offence. Includes a mounted newspaper clipping of a pencil drawing of Dorothy L Sayers drawn by Gunsbury. With pencil annotation

Proof copy of "Progress in Literature" by Lascelles Abercrombie

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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

"The Riddle and Other Stories" by Walter de la Mare

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1928

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Faber and Faber, London. Inscribed "Tanya Moiseiwitch love from John"

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

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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

Photograph of cast and associates for a production of "Bird in Hand" by John Drinkwater

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1927

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Featuring John Drinkwater, Peggy Ashcroft and Laurence Olivier. Taken outside the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in September 1927. Annotated with names on reverse although photograph has been cropped

Photographer unknown

"Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini a Florentine Artist written by Himself" translated by Anne MacDonell

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1927

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by J M Dent and Sons Limited, London. Inscribed "Tanya with love from John. Her 19th birthday"

Letter from J M Dent & Sons publisher to Julian Thomas regarding a potential anthology on Edward Thomas

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28 May 1927

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

"Mary Barton and Other Tales" by Elizabeth Gaskell

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1925

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by John Murray, London. Inscribed "To Tanya on her fourteenth birthday these eight volumes of Mrs Gaskell with love and every good wish for many many birthdays to come, from her affectionate friend Big John: London December 3rd 1928"

"Ivanhoe" by Sir Walter Scott

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1925

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Macmillan and Company Limited, London. Inscribed "Tanya with much love Big John: Christmas 1926 Wallington"

"A Musical Critic's Holiday" by Ernest Newman

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1925

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Alfred A Knopf, New York. Inscribed by Ernest Newman "To John Drinkwater from Ernest Newman [?] 31". Also inscribed by John Drinkwater "pages 37-52 being missing, E N gave me another copy, so I give this with my love to Tanya: John Drinkwater Sept 1931"

Photograph of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

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1925

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Taken outside next to a fence post. Annotated on reverse

Photographer unknown

"Patriotism in Literature" by John Drinkwater

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1924

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Williams and Norgate, London. Inscribed "Tanya from John Drinkwater August 1932"

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

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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 copy of "The Theory of Poetry" by Lascelles Abercrombie

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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

Handwritten poem "The Heresy of an Elder or Not Believing in Fairies" by John Drinkwater

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13 November 1923

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Signed and dated. Written in Hungerford

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

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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

"One-Act Plays for Secondary Schools" edited by James Plaisted Webber and Hanson Hart Webster

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1923

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Pencil inscription "Tanya Moiseiwitsch"

"Kenilworth" by Sir Walter Scott

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1923

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Macmillan and Company Limited, London. Inscribed "Tanya with much love from Big John: Christmas 1926 Wallington"

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

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1922

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Annotated by Lascelles Abercrombie. Bound book with inserted loose pages

Draft poems "Mass Meeting" and "The Promontory"

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c.1919-1920

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Working draft handwritten in pencil. Possibly written by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

Assignment of copyright of selected works by Rupert Brooke to Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, Lascelles Abercrombie and Walter de la Mare

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22 November 1920

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Indenture signed by Rupert Brooke's mother Mary Ruth Brooke assigning copyright for Brooke's works "Poems", "1914 and Other Poems", "Selected Poems", "The Old Vicarage, Grantchester", "Collected Poems", "Letters from America", and "John Webster and the Elizabethan Drama" to Gibson, Abercrombie and de la Mare according to written instruction from Rupert Brooke who died intestate. The indenture states that this letter also contained "other matters of a very private nature and has since been destroyed by the Administratix" [Mary Ruth Brooke]

Photograph of Lascelles Abercrombie by James Bacon & Sons

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c.1920s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Mounted

Article "Unquiet Mind of Edward Thomas" by Joseph Braddock

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c.1920s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication unknown

"The Augustan Books of Modern Poetry" box edited by Edward Thompson and Humbert Wolfe

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c.1920s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Velvet-lined box containing the following pamphlets published by Ernest Benn Limited, London:

Matthew Arnold
Hilaire Belloc
Emily Brontë
Rupert Brooke
Robert Burns
G K Chesterton
W H Davies
Walter de la Mare
John Donne
Wilfrid Gibson
Alice Meynell
Robert Louis Stevenson
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Alfred, Lorn Tennyson
Edward Thomas
Francis Thompson
W B Yeats

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