Special Collections and Archives

Documents relating to the Edward Thomas memorial window by Laurence Whistler at Eastbury

DP/ETF/7/1
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c.1970s

Subscription list, appeal information, leaflet and photograph of the window dedicated to Edward Thomas and Helen Thomas, photocopy of Steep News Letter May 1977 with an article on the window by Douglas Snelgar, Vicar of Steep

Edward Thomas

DP/RW/1
Subseries
1900-1970

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Newspaper article "From Hack to War Poet" by Anthony Powell

DP/RW/1/3/3
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5 March 1970

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication unknown. Review of "Edward Thomas: a Critical Biography" by William Cooke. With ink annotation

Photocopy of typescript of "The Sentiel" by John Haines

DP/ET/9/3
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(c.1970s)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Draft review of "The Last Sheaf" by Edward Thomas

Photocopy of article "Tributes to wife and poet"

DP/ETF/1/5/7
Item
(c.1970s)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in NWN on 21 July 1977, author unknown. An account of the service at St James' Church Eastbury to mark the centenary of the birth of Helen Thomas

Edward Marsh Letters

DP/JM/1
Subseries
(c.1970s) c.1912-c.1919

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Rupert Brooke Letters

DP/JM/3
Subseries
(c.1970s) 1912-1915

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Wilfrid Gibson to Rupert Brooke

DP/JM/3/3
File
(c.1970s) 1913, 1915

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

One photocopied letter and one photocopied postcard from Gibson to Brooke written 20 March 1913 and 13 January 1915. Includes details of illness, a series of books called "The Shilling Garland" and plans for a "New Shilling Garland", and Gibson thanking Brooke for sending some of his poetry

Lord Birkenhead

DP/MT/3/15
File
4 December 1969 - 5 February 1970

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Francis Guthrie

DP/MT/3/68
File
20 October 1970

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Newspaper Cuttings

DP/RW/1/3
File
1917-1970

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photocopy of E O Hoppé photograph of Edward Thomas

DP/RW/1/4/13
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(c.1970s)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in "The Bookman" special Christmas number 1917. With ink annotation

Photocopy of article "Memorial to poet planned at Steep"

DP/ETF/1/5/3
Item
(c.1970s)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the Portsmouth Evening Times on 2 March 1977, author unknown

Photocopy of article "Edward Thomas remembered" by Myfanwy Thomas

DP/ETF/1/5/66
Item
(c.1970s)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication unknown

"Poets and Critics" sale catalogue number 54

DP/ET/7/2
Item
c.1970s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes volumes by Drinkwater, Farjeon, Frost and Thomas

Photocopy of page from The British Council Annual Report 1973-1974 with details of a "Poetry of Wales" recording on Edward Thomas

DP/ET/9/2
Item
(c.1970s)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Annotated

Photocopies of "Elegy for Edward Thomas" and handwritten copy of "A Poet's Epitaph" by Charles Dalmon

DP/ET/9/4
Item
(c.1970s)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Annotated

Article "A short-lived style" by Jan Marsh

DP/ETF/1/5/67
Item
c.1970s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication unknown. Review of "Edward Thomas on the Countryside: a selection of Prose and Verse" edited by Roland Gant

Article "Nose to the Ground" by Philip Toynbee

DP/ETF/1/5/68
Item
c.1970s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication unknown. Review of "Edward Thomas on the Countryside: A Selection of Prose and Verse" edited by Roland Gant

Article "England, that swan's nest" by David Williams

DP/ETF/1/5/69
Item
c.1970s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Times [?]. Review of "Edward Thomas on the Countryside: a selection of his Prose and Verse" by Roland Gant

Photocopy of newspaper article "Private Lives" by Peter Vansittart

DP/RW/1/3/4
Item
14 February 1970

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Spectator. Review of "Edward Thomas: A Critical Biography" by William Cooke

Edward Thomas

DP/RW/8/4
File
1945 - c.1970s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes poem "The Spring: To Edward Thomas" published in The Grasshopper Broadsheets April 1945, invitation to a talk "Edward Thomas (1878-1917): Poet and Critic" by R George Thomas on 15 November 1967, and an information sheet on The Edward Thomas Centenary Memorial appeal which includes copies of signatures of Myfanwy Thomas, Jill Balcon, Alec Guinness and Douglas Snelgar [?] Vicar of Steep

Article "A Subordinated Poet" by Geoffrey Grigson

DP/ET/1/12
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26 March - 9 April 1970

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in Country Life. Features review of "Edward Thomas: A Critical Biography" by William Cooke

Postcard from "Joan" and "Lucas" to Edward Eastaway Thomas and Ruth Dyson regarding holidays

DP/ET/4/11/3
Item
7 July 1970

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Jan Marsh Series

DP/JM
Series
c.1970s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Marsh, Jan

Edward Thomas - Robert Frost Letters

DP/JM/2
Subseries
(c.1970s) 17 December 1913 - 2 April 1917

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photocopies and typescripts of letters spanning virtually the whole course of the Thomas - Frost relationship until Thomas's death in 1917. Mainly written from Thomas to Frost, they cover domestic issues as well as thoughts on poetry and the work of other writers and Thomas's observations from France. Also included are a letter from Roger Ingpen to Frost immediately after Thomas's death discussing the publication of "Eastaway's poems" and one from Frost to Helen Thomas extolling the virtues of Thomas as "the bravest and best and dearest man you and I have ever known"

John Drinkwater to Rupert Brooke

DP/JM/3/2
File
(c.1970s) 1912, 1915

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Two photocopied letters from Drinkwater to Brooke dated 26 September 1912 and 1 January 1915. Includes thanks to Brooke for sending him a volume of his poetry, visits, Brooke in Antwerp, Drinkwater's work and views on the war

Newspaper article on the Edward Thomas memorial window at Eastbury Church

DP/MT/1/9/1
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c.1970s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication unknown. States that although the original target fund for the window had been reached another £400 was needed due to the increase in the price of the glass. Describes how Myfanwy planted trees behind the window to provide a dark background

Lascelles Abercrombie to Edward Marsh

DP/JM/1/1
File
(c.1970s) c.1912-c.1919

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Handwritten transcript of letters from Abercrombie to Marsh, 5 March c.1912 - c. April 1919. Topics include literary works, visits, New Numbers, lecturing, Catherine Abercrombie's illness and Rupert Brooke's death

Thesis

DP/JM/4
Subseries
c.1970s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Unpublished text with corrections of thesis "Georgian Poetry and the Land" by Jan Marsh. Incomplete, missing part of chapter two "Rural England" and all of chapter nine "The Poet and The Country". Includes typescript article titled "New Numbers" and correspondence with the Cambridge University Press with regards to publishing. Annotated.

Leaflet with details of All Saints' Church, Steep, Petersfield, Hampshire

DP/ET/6/1
Item
c.1970s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes description and history of the church. Hand printed by Bedales Press

Photocopy of sale notice for 23 letters between Edward Thomas and David Uzzell

DP/ET/7/1
Item
(c.1970s) 15 June 1938

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Sold by The Frank Hollings Bookshop with a guide price of £15

Photocopy of article "Poetic Genius" by Norman Nicholson

DP/ETF/1/5/62
Item
(c.1970s)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the Church Times on 2 March 1979. Review of "The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas" by R George Thomas

Article "His own enemy" by P J Kavanagh

DP/ETF/1/5/70
Item
c.1970s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication unknown. Review of "Edward Thomas on the Countryside" edited by Roland Gant

Programme for "People Past and Present: Edward Thomas 1878-1917"

DP/ETF/4/2
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29 October 1970

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Performed at The National Portrait Gallery. Devised and narrated by Frank Baker with Richard Pasco and Barbara Leigh Hunt

Flyer with quote by Edward Thomas reflecting on history and the passing of time

DP/ETF/7/2
Item
c.1970s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Originally published in "South Country" and quoted in R George Thomas's "Edward Thomas"

Photographs

DP/RW/1/4
File
1900 - (c.1970s)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Letter from Anne Mallinson of The Selborne Bookshop to Ruth Dyson regarding the event "Music of the Great Parlour"

DP/ET/4/11/4
Item
16 August 1970

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Article "Switching on a Poet" by Geoffrey Grigson

DP/ET/1/9
Item
13 February 1969

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in Country Life. Includes review of "Letters from Edward Thomas to Gordon Bottomley" edited by R G Thomas. Includes pencil annotation by Edward Eastaway Thomas

Articles and Publications 1960s

DP/ETF/1/4
File
1965, 1969

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

"The Poets of Steep" by David Gill published in Hampshire, December 1965

Photocopy of "An Engraved Window to Edward Thomas and Helen his Wife" by Laurence Whistler published in Book Collecting & Library Monthly number 16, August 1969. Includes letter from Myfanwy Thomas explaining the origins of the memorial window appeal

Articles and Excerpts 1960s