Special Collections and Archives

Exhibition poster for "A Frost Bouquet: Robert Frost, his family and the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature"

DP/VD/21
Subseries
1996

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Held at the McGregor Room-Alderman Library at the University of Virginia, May - June 1996

Occasional Papers

DP/A/3
Subseries
1996 - 2000

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education

Photocopies and prints of images of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

DP/VD/12
Subseries
(c.1996)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes photocopy of article "New book's tribute to the other Gibson" published in the Hexham Courant 19 January 1996. Images include studio shots of Gibson, pencil drawing of Gibson by Helen Wilson in 1928, Gibson aged 18, Geraldi...

Audio cassette recordings of "Frost in England: An Evocation by Sean Street" and "Fire and Ice"

DP/VD/7
Subseries
c.1998

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

"Frost in England" originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 26 March 1998

Essay "The Only Brother I Ever Had" by Linda Hart

DP/VD/10
Subseries
c.1998

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Articles

DP/FDP/1
Subseries
1999 - 2000

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Sheet music relating to Edward Thomas

DP/VD/19
Subseries
c.1999

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Programme and sheet music for a concert "Music inspired by the poetry of Edward Thomas" at The Royal College of Music on 24 April 1999, hosted by The Edward Thomas Fellowship. Music includes:"Dreams of Men: Four Songs for high voice...

Sheet music "Adlestrop" with words by Edward Thomas and music by Gordon Jacob

DP/VD/20
Subseries
c.1999

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Poetry and Music

DP/BD/9
Subseries
c.2000s - 2008

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Typescript of play "The Unfathomable Deep" by Andrea Scott

DP/VD/30
Subseries
c.2000s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Characters include Edward Thomas, Helen Thomas, Eleanor Farjeon and Ivor Gurney

Administration and Notes by Barbara Davis

DP/BD/2
Subseries
c.2000s - 2008

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Framed print of original handwritten manuscript of poem "My Butterfly" by Robert Frost

DP/VD/58
Subseries
c.2000

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

"My Butterfly" was Frost's first published poem for which he was paid $15 by the "New York Independent" on 8 November 1894. The original manuscript is held at the Huntington Library, Pasadena. This framed print was produce...

Two audio cassette recordings of "Kings and Queens" and "A Nursery in the Nineties" by Eleanor and Herbert Farjeon

DP/VD/25
Subseries
c.2000s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Kings and Queens was produced for the 50th anniversary of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II with contribution by Anne Harvey. Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 1 June 2003A Nursery in the Nineties is the dramatised memoir of Eleanor Farjeon. Broadcas...

Recordings

DP/ETF/10
Subseries
2000 - 2006

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

PhD thesis "The Definition of Edward Thomas: The Poetry of Identity" by Christopher Saunders

DP/VD/35
Subseries
2002

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Unbound

Two photographs of Roy Palmer [Chair of the Friends of the Dymock Poets] with Myfanwy Thomas, taken at Myfanwy's home in Berkshire 24 November 2002, taken by Pat Palmer

DP/VD/42
Subseries
2002, 2014

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes accompanying letter from Pat Palmer, 17 June 2014

Dymock Poets and Friends: Journal of the Friends of the Dymock Poets

DP/FDP/7
Subseries
2002 - 2019

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Letter from Myfanwy Thomas to Ken Watts [Edward Thomas Fellowship member]

DP/VD/41
Subseries
26 September 2002

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Thanks him for his study on her father Edward Thomas and recounts childhood memories about Arthur Ransome and his wife Ivy

CD "Cotswold Songs" by Colin Decio

DP/VD/34
Subseries
2004

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Features Evelyne Beech as soprano. Includes settings to poetry of John Drinkwater from "Tides", published 1917

CD "Bound for Glory: Songs and Piano Music on a Railway Theme" by Gordon Pullin and John Gough

DP/VD/27
Subseries
2004

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes Adlestrop by Edward Thomas with music by Gordon Jacob

CD-ROM containing monograph "Hoping for Yesterday: Gordon Bottomley Portrait of a Poet in Silverdale" by Betty Kershaw

DP/VD/32
Subseries
2005

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photocopies of letters to John Wilton Haines

DP/VD/17
Subseries
(2006)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Catalogue of the papers of John Wilton Haines [Jack Haines] held at Gloucestershire Archives

DP/VD/51
Subseries
2008

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Gloucestershire Archives reference number D10828. Online version available via http://ww3.gloucestershire.gov.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=D10828&pos=3

Gloucestershire Archives

Deposited by Edward Cawston Thomas

DP/VD/39
Subseries
2009

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Article "A Citizen of Eternity" by Matthew Hollis

DP/VD/37
Subseries
30 July 2011

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Guardian Review supplement. Documents the friendship between Robert Frost and Edward Thomas

Canvas bag with printed Edward Thomas quotation accompanying "Now All Roads Lead to France" book by Matthew Hollis

DP/VD/38
Subseries
c.2011

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Edward Thomas quotation from "Thaw"

Digital scanned copy of music "Song for the City of Oxford School" with lyrics by John Drinkwater c.1930

DP/VD/36
Subseries
(c.2013

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in Drinkwater's "Summer Harvest: Poems 1922-1933" anthology

Almedia Theatre production programe for play "The Dark Earth and the Light Sky" by Nick Dear, based on Edward Thomas, Helen Thomas, Robert Frost and Eleanor Farjeon

DP/VD/43
Subseries
2013

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Performed at the Almedia Theatre 8 November 2012 - 12 January 2013

Flyer for the production of "Strange Ghost: A new opera marking the centenary of the death of Rupert Brooke"

DP/VD/44
Subseries
2015

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

In association with The Rupert Brooke Society, Festival Theatre, Cambridge Buddhist Centre, 11-13 December 2015

"They Walked and Talked: A Dymock Poets' Collection" DVD

DP/VD/50
Subseries
c.2015

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

DVD of readings of poetry of the Dymock Poets. Filmed by Rachel Plant and produced by Cate Luck. 30 minutes running time

Canham, Ray

Programme for talk "The English Years of Robert Frost" by Gabriel Woolf and Linda Hart

DP/VD/49
Subseries
11 May 2016

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Held at Chalfont St Giles Parish Church, as part of the Chalfont St Giles & Jordans Literary Festival 10 - 22 May 2016

Hart, Linda

Copies of letters from Myfanwy Thomas to Alison Brackenbury and Robyn Marsack regarding Edward Thomas and Welsh folksongs

DP/VD/54
Subseries
(2016)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Typescript of letter from Myfanwy Thomas to Robyn Marsack 4 October 2004Photocopy of letter from Myfanwy Thomas to Alison Brackenbury 4 November 2004Letter accompanying deposit from Alison Brackenbury 29 November 2016Digital copies of poems "...

Brackenbury, Alison

Framed handwritten version of "Sonnet XLII from First & Second Love"

DP/VD/16
Subseries
c. 20th century

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes Eleanor Farjeon's signature. "First and Second Love" was published by Michael Joseph in 1947, the two loves being Stacy Aumonier and Edward Thomas

Framed prints of Edward Thomas at Oxford, Arras and a pencil drawing of Edward Thomas

DP/VD/24
Subseries
c. 20th century

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Frame one contains a printed portrait photograph of Edward Thomas whilst at Oxford c.1900 and a view of La Petit Place, ArrasFrame two contains a pencil drawing of Edward Thomas that hung on the study wall of Eric Norris

Framed pencil drawing of W H Davies [1871 - 1940] by John Wheatley [1892 - 1955], ARA

DP/VD/45
Subseries
c. 20th century

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Annotated on reverse "John Wheatley (Studio Collection) W H Davies" and stamped "The Guild of Master Craftsmen"Also includes photocopy of page of "Painting in Newlyn" catalogue featuring an oil on canvas portrait of W...

Poetry