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Documents relating to the Laurence Whistler window dedicated to Edward and Helen Thomas at Eastbury

Letter from Myfanwy Thomas to Mr Batty regarding thanking him for his contribution to the window and inquiring if he is related to Mr Trevor Batty, who owned Ashford Chase at Steep before Lord Horder, 20 November 1969
Letter from Myfanwy Thomas to Mr Batty recounting the dedication of the memorial window at Eastbury, 7 November 1971
Information letter, circular and pamphlet with loose photograph of the memorial window
Article "Tribute to a Poet: The Edward Thomas Window at Eastbury" by Noel Carrington published in County Life October 1971

Letter from Edward Thomas to C F Cazenove

Previously unpublished letter from Thomas to his literary agent C F Cazenove. Describes his current works and confides his dislike for commissioned "hack work". The letter ends that "some sort of end is pretty well up above the horizon". Includes typed transcription

Unpublished according to http://www.edward-thomas-fellowship.org.uk/downloads/Edward-Thomas-Letters-Index.pdf

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

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 2003

A Nursery in the Nineties is the dramatised memoir of Eleanor Farjeon. Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour 26-30 May 2003. Contains episodes 1 - 3 of 5

Letter from Edward Thomas to Eleanor Farjeon

Letter contained in book "The Prose of Edward Thomas" selected by Roland Gant. Volume inscribed "To dearest Joan from Nellie Christmas 1954" [Eleanor Farjeon's handwriting]

Letter published in "The Last Four Years" by Eleanor Farjeon, page 101. Responds to news that Eleanor's brother Herbert [Bertie] is to be married to Joan Thornycroft daughter of Sir Hamo Thornycroft RA, sculptor. Joan was also, via her aunt Theresa Sassoon née Thornycroft, first cousin to Siegfried Sassoon

Photograph album of sites associated with Edward Thomas, compiled by Anthony Berridge

Photographs taken by Anthony Berridge between 1979-1983 of sites related to Edward Thomas. Identical album held in the Edward Thomas Collection at Cardiff University.
Includes loose photographs [some copyrighted images of Edward Thomas], list of photographs in album, "The Wandsworth Historian" with article on Edward Thomas December 1978 and "Common News: A Newspaper sponsored by Churches in South Battersea" February 1979

Also includes letter from Anthony Berridge to Myfanwy Thomas, 14 April 2000, and explanatory note from Richard Emeny of The Edward Thomas Fellowship, July 2003

Photographic prints of the May Hill and Dymock area by Trudie Ballantyne

13 prints framed, 4 unframed

Landscape orientation, taken through a soft photographic filter. Frames 535mm x 535mm

Footpath, Dymock [two copies, framed]
Wild Daffodils, Ryton Woods [framed]
The Tunnels Mouth, Dymock [framed]
Morning Mist, May Hill [two copies, framed]
Ploughed Field, Ryton [framed]
Hail Storm over the Forest of Dean from May Hill [framed]
May Hill [unframed]
Marsh Marigold, Greenways Cross [framed]
Apple Blossom, Leddington [unframed]
Harts Tongue Fern [unframed]
Wild Garlic [framed]
Half-pipe style pathway through a dense forest [framed]
Yew & Ivy, Dymock Church [framed]
Tree Trunk [unframed]
Perry Tree, Eldersfield [framed]

Photocopy of receipt for "New Numbers"

Photocopy of an original receipt for the periodical New Numbers for 7s 6d from Norman S Macdonnell. Handwritten by Catherine Abercrombie. Accompanied by a postcard from Lorna Beckett, later Chair of the Rupert Brooke Society

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

Typescript of letter from Myfanwy Thomas to Robyn Marsack 4 October 2004

Photocopy of letter from Myfanwy Thomas to Alison Brackenbury 4 November 2004

Letter accompanying deposit from Alison Brackenbury 29 November 2016

Digital copies of poems "Letter, 1917", "No 2, Yewtree Cottage", "Visitor" and "Edward Thomas' daughter" by Alison Brackenbury

Digital typescript of script for BBC Radio 3 programme "Singing in the Dark: Back to Brigg Fair" broadcast on 7 July 2006

Brackenbury, Alison

Articles and flyer relating to the Dymock Poets

Magazine article "The origin of a famous war poet" on Wilfred Owen by John W Foster c.1990s
Newspaper article "Poetic injustice" on the decision not to name a road "Farjeon Way" in Ledbury. Published in the Western Daily Press on 22 February 1997
"Dymock Poets: The Four Churches of The Windcross Parishes" flyer c.1990s

University of Gloucestershire

Photocopy of article "Weekend tribute to poets"

Published in The Citizen on 16 May 1995. Refers to weekend in Ledbury commemorating the 80th anniversary of Rupert Brooke's death. Those present included Lesley Lee Francis, Sean Street and Roger Hogg. Photocopied as a Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education press cuttings alert

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