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Photocopy of article "English Criticism Now Done by Maiden Aunts" by Wilfrid Gibson

DP/BD/1/45
Item
(c.2001) 14 January 1917

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

From "New York Times"

Newspaper Cuttings

DP/RW/1/3
File
1917-1970

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photocopy of memoriam notice for Edward Thomas in Bedales Chronicle volume 10 number 6

DP/ET/5/1/6
Item
(c.1980s) June 1917

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Article "Wilfred [sic] Wilson Gibson: Poet of Tenement and Trench" by Reverend John Haynes Holmes

DP/MG/2/3
Item
6 January 1917

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Possibly published in "The Survey". A review of Gibson's work, focusing on the "unpretentious" Daily Bread and Battle, described by Holmes as "war poetry of the future"

Photocopy of article "Edward Thomas" by E S P Haynes

DP/MT/1/3/11
Item
(c.1990s) June 1917

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the English Review volume 24

Articles

DP/BD/1
Subseries
(c.1990s) 1917 - 2011

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Personal Papers

DP/MG/3
Subseries
1916 - c.1950s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photocopy of letter from Edward Thomas to "My dear friend"

DP/RW/1/1/6
Item
(c.1960s) 24 December 1916

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Gives Christmas greetings to unknown recipient, Mrs Williams and Miss John. Gives details of his attachment to the 244th Siege Battery and describes operations at Romney Marsh as well as how his son Mervyn is prospering at home

Photocopy and typescript of letter from Edward Thomas to Joe Jefferson Farjeon

DP/GF/5/5
Item
(c. 2000s) Christmas 1916

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Letter thanking Joe for the tobacco he had sent. Annotated by Anne Harvey

Wilfrid Wilson Gibson's certificate of unfitness to enlist in His Majesty's Forces

DP/MG/3/1
Item
18 January 1916

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Signed by the Medical Officer and Recruitment Officer

Newspaper article "Soldier-Author" discussing Edward Thomas's new book "The Life of the Duke of Marlborough"

DP/MT/1/3/8
Item
c.1916

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication unknown. Includes photograph of Edward Thomas and comment that he is now a soldier

Edward Thomas to Mervyn Thomas

DP/ETF/6/3/15
Item
(c.1990s) 1916 - 1917

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes covering letter from Edward Cawston Thomas, who possessed the originals

"1914 and Other Poems" by Rupert Brooke

DP/TM/1/3
Item
1916

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Sidgwick & Jackson Limited, London

Edward Eastaway Thomas Series

DP/ET
Series
c.1915 - 19 August 1997

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Thomas, Edward Eastaway

Julian Thomas

DP/ET/5/2
File
c.1915 - (c.1980s)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photocopy of official copy of the handwritten will of Edward Thomas

DP/RW/1/5/2
Item
(1963) 9 July 1915

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

From the Principal Probate Registry of the High Court of Justice

Photocopy of article "Recent English Poetry" by Martin D Armstrong

DP/VD/55/3
Item
(c.1990s) c.1915

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in "Fortnightly Review". Discusses W W Gibson, W H Davies, Lascelles Abercrombie and John Masefield

Press notice for "Battle" by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson by Elkin Matthews

DP/MG/5/2
Item
1915

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes quotations from recent reviews

Photocopy of Rupert Brooke obituary written by Edward Thomas in "The English Review"

DP/ET/1/2
Item
(c.1980s) June 1915

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

People

DP/ET/5
Subseries
c.1915 - (c.1980s)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

"Shakespeare's Songs" by William Shakespeare

DP/TM/1/2
Item
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"

Postcard from J C Squire to Julian Thomas

DP/ET/5/2/1
Item
c.1915

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

States "Yes. You can hold it in the Albert Hall for all it matters to me"

Typescript of article "Soldiers Everywhere" by Edward Thomas

DP/MT/1/3/7
Item
(c.1990s) 8 May 1915

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The New Statesman

With ink annotations

Photocopy of excerpt from booklet "Our Allies and Enemies" edited by Herbert Strang

DP/MT/1/3/6
Item
(c.1990s) c.1915

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Discusses the combatant countries and their resources during the First World War

Edward Thomas to his parents

DP/ETF/6/3/16
Item
(c.1990s) 9 July 1915 - 5 April 1917

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Annotated

Handwritten poems by Edward Thomas "The Green Roads", "It Was Upon" and "Women He Liked"

DP/RW/1/1/3
Item
c.1915

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Handwritten by Edward Thomas. With pencil annotations

Handwritten poem "How at Once"

DP/RW/1/1/4
Item
c.1915

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Handwritten by Edward Thomas on "Y.M.C.A. H.M. Forces on Active Service" headed paper. With pencil annotation

Edward Thomas to John Haines

DP/ETF/6/3/6
Item
(c.1990s) 15 December 1914

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Handwritten by Professor R George Thomas

Letter from Edward Thomas to Eleanor Farjeon

DP/VD/33
Subseries
21 October 1914, 1948

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

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

Photocopy of article "Two of the Newest Poets" by Robert Shafer

DP/VD/55/2
Item
(c.1990s) 1914

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in "Atlantic Monthly". Discusses W W Gibson and John Masefield, among other English poets

Letter from Robert Frost to John Haines

DP/VD/57/1
Item
15 June 1914

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Written at Little Iddens, Ledington, Ledbury. Frost arranges to meet Haines at Newent and wishes to discuss "one or two flowers you must tell me about".

Pencil annotation "1" on envelope

Letter from Robert Frost to John Haines

DP/VD/57/3
Item
22 September 1914

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Written at Ryton, Dymock. Frost arranges to visit Haines with his daughter Lesley. Includes Frost's unvarnished opinions of Lascelles Abercrombie, Rupert Brooke, John Drinkwater and Wilfrid Wilson Gibson alongside comments on the beginning of the First World War.

Pencil annotations by John Haines

Photocopy of article "Winter by the Sea" by Janet S Aldis

DP/MT/1/3/5
Item
(c.1990s) 1914

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Blue Book for Girls. The Aldises were family friends of the Thomases

Photocopy of article "A Talk to Mothers" by Helen Thomas in "Women's Liberal Federation News"

DP/ET/1/1
Item
(c.1980s) 1 April 1914

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photocopy of receipt for "New Numbers"

DP/VD/5
Subseries
(c.1996) 8 May 1914

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

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

Letter from Edward Thomas to Eleanor Farjeon

DP/RW/1/1/2
Item
26 September 1914

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Original letter written by Edward Thomas regarding a visit by Eleanor Farjeon. With original envelope and pencil annotation

Letters from Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

DP/VD/17/2
File
(2006) January 1914 - January 1926

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photocopies of letters and postcards covering a wide range of subjects including reviews of Gibson's poetry, the publication of New Numbers and Gibson's army service. Also included are typed copies of poems Northleach, Bourton-on-the-Water, Old Meg, Stow-on-the-Wold and a handwritten draft of The Empty Cottage. Also includes one letter from Geraldine Gibson regarding the forthcoming publication of New Numbers

Letter from Edward Thomas to C F Cazenove

DP/VD/23
Subseries
15 July 1914

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

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

Letters from Robert Frost to John Haines

DP/VD/57
Subseries
1914, 2018

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Postcard from Robert Frost to John Haines

DP/VD/57/2
Item
1 July 1914

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Note to confirm Frost expects Haines on Thursday morning.

Pencil annotation "3"

Photocopy of poem "The Old Nail Shop" handwritten by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

DP/BD/9/1
Item
(c.2000s) c.1914

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Printed on A3 paper. Written at Greenway, near Dymock

Press notice for Wilfrid Wilson Gibson's publications "Thoroughfares" and "Borderlands" by Elkin Matthews

DP/MG/5/1
Item
1914

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes quotations from recent editions of the Times Literary Supplement

Publishers' Papers

DP/MG/5
Subseries
1914-1915, 1945

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photograph of Edward Thomas

DP/RW/1/4/7
Item
c.1914

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photographer unknown

Articles

DP/ET/1
Subseries
(c.1980s) 1 April 1914 - 19 August 1997

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Edward Thomas to Robert Frost

DP/ETF/6/2
File
(c.1990s) 17 December 1913 - 2 April 1917

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photocopied typescripts of 57 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

Includes photocopy of article "Six letters from Robert Frost to Edward Thomas" by R George Thomas. Publication unknown

Documents and Photographs

DP/TM/2
Subseries
1913 - c.1935

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Farjeon - Bax Set

DP/GF/4
Subseries
1913, (c.1990s)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Original manuscript of poem "Walking Tom" and related items

DP/GF/4/1
File
September 1913, (c.1990s)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Pencil original written alternatively by Clifford Bax and Herbert Farjeon and including crossings out and re-workings, Venice September 1913. Missing page 1.
Also includes photocopy of a manuscript version held by the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre, University of Texas, Austin [who believed theirs was the original until this version was discovered amongst the Farjeon papers], photocopy of G F Sims (Rare Books) sale catalogue describing the Harry Ransom version, and photocopy of extracts from "Edward Thomas: The Last Four Years" referring to the poem

"Quality Totals" possibly written by Herbert Farjeon

DP/GF/4/3
Item
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]

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