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Newspaper article "Pedalling back through the ages in Centenary ride at Froxfield"

DP/MT/1/9/28
Item
19 October 1978

Published in the East Hampshire Post, author unknown. Describes the bike ride to mark the centenary of the birth of Edward Thomas in 1878. With ink annotation

Newspaper article "A centenary assessment of Edward Thomas... A Poet in the Shadow of War" by Brenig Owen

DP/MT/1/9/29
Item
8 November 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Citizen [Gloucester]

Article "Two Years a Poet" by Geoffrey Grigson

DP/MT/1/9/30
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23 November 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in Country Life. Book review of "The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas" edited by R G Thomas

Newspaper article "My Book of the Year" including "Edward Thomas: A Poet for his Country" reviewed by Rachel Billington

DP/MT/1/9/31
Item
30 December 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the Financial Times

Photocopy of abstract on Edward Thomas from "Pan Literature Guides: An Introduction to Modern British Poets" from Michael Schmidt

DP/MT/1/9/32
Item
(c.1980s) 1979

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photocopy of abstract on Edward Thomas from "Great Friends" by David Garnett

DP/MT/1/9/33
Item
(c.1980s) 1979

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Newspaper article "Best of the Poetry: Year 6" selected by Dannie Abse

DP/MT/1/9/34
Item
1979

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes work by Edward Thomas

Newspaper cutting on "The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas" edited by R George Thomas

DP/MT/1/9/35
Item
1 January 1979

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Guardian Weekly

Newspaper cutting "Poetry and prose in nature"

DP/MT/1/9/36
Item
12 January 1979

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the Midhurst & Petworth Observer. Details a meeting of Bognor Regis Natural Science where Mr Leslie Norris read extracts including Robert Frost and Edward Thomas

Photocopy of article "Abysses and avenues" by Martin Dodsworth

DP/MT/1/9/37
Item
(c.1980s) 1 February 1979

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Guardian. Review of "The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas" by R George Thomas

Photocopy of article "Propelled by Poetry" by Robert W Smith

DP/MT/1/9/38
Item
(c.1980s) 2 February 1979

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Washington Post. Review of "The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas" edited by R George Thomas

Photocopy of article reviewing "The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas" edited by R George Thomas

DP/MT/1/9/39
Item
12 February 1979

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in British Book News, author unknown

Newspaper article "The Edward Thomas Birthday Walk"

DP/MT/1/9/40
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24 February 1979

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Bookseller, author unknown. Discusses the seventh annual Edward Thomas Birthday Walk

Newspaper article "Poetry in motion" by Martin Wainwright

DP/MT/1/9/41
Item
7 March 1979

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Guardian. Discusses the cult following of Edward Thomas

Newspaper article "Poetic truth" with a letter from Alex Bowlby to the Editor correcting Martin Wainwright's article

DP/MT/1/9/42
Item
17 March 1979

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Guardian. Annotated in pencil with "!!!"

Newspaper article "Tales of a country writer" by J H B Peel

DP/MT/1/9/43
Item
14 April 1979

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Daily Telegraph. Discusses the work of Richard Jefferies

Photocopy of typescript "Edward Thomas: three book reviews" by Myfanwy Rodnight

DP/MT/1/9/44
Item
(c.1980s) 10 June 1979

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Discusses "Time and Again: Memoirs and Letters by Helen Thomas"; "Edward Thomas: A Poet for his Country"; "The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas"

Newspaper article "The poem printed in a bus shelter" by Simon Hoggart

DP/MT/1/9/45
Item
28 July 1979

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Guardian. Discusses Edward Thomas's poem "Adlestrop". With pencil annotations

Newspaper article "Both sides of the trenches" by Gavin Ewart

DP/MT/1/9/46
Item
12 August 1979

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Observer. Review of "The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry" edited by Jon Silkin

Newspaper article "Book launching" detailing the launch of "Edward Thomas: The Last Four Years" at Selborne Bookshop

DP/MT/1/9/47
Item
22 November 1979

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the East Hampshire Post, author unknown

Photocopy of newspaper article "Lessons in honesty" by Donald Davie

DP/MT/1/9/48
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(c.1980s) 23 November 1979

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Times Literary Supplement. Review of "The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas"; "Poetry Wales: Edward Thomas Centenary Issue"; "Edward Thomas: A Poet for his Country"; "Time and Again: The Memoirs and Letters of Helen Thomas"; "Richard Jefferies: His Life and Work"; "Edward Thomas: A Portrait"

Newspaper article with letter "The England of Edward Thomas" by Kim Taplin

DP/MT/1/9/49
Item
21 December 1979

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Times Literary Supplement

Geoffrey Burgess

DP/MT/3/27
File
25 February - 19 November 1999

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes photocopy of letter from Edward Thomas to Charles Barret, naturalist and writer of wildlife books on Australia and New Guinea, active from 1907 until his death in 1959. Sent 7 September 1908

Articles and Excerpts 1970s

DP/MT/1/9
File
c.1970s - 1979, 1984

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photocopy of article "Robert Frost and Edward Thomas: Two Soldier Poets" by Paul M Cubeta

DP/MT/1/9/50
Item
(c.1980s) June 1979, 1984

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in "The New England Quarterly". Includes covering letter from Charles Tomlinson to Myfanwy Thomas, 23 November 1984

Edward Thomas Fellowship - Miscellaneous

DP/MT/2/1
File
1978 - 2003

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Edward Thomas Fellowship Birthday Walks 1978, 1982 - 1985, 1988, 1994 - 2000, 2002

Various signed walk cards to Myfanwy Thomas 1986 - 2004

Autumn Walks 1982, 1988, 1991, 1994, 1995, 2001

Edward Thomas Fellowship Committee minutes 25 July 1986, 31 October 1986, 22 May 1993, 20 November 1993, 1 March 1997, 12 July 1997 and 28 February 1998

Edward Thomas Centenary Celebrations 4-5 March 1978

Photocopies of letters of protest and evidence submitted to The Edward Thomas Fellowship against the planned A3 road bypass in the Steep area c.1985

Edward Thomas Fellowship press release relating to the painting "Summer Evening Landscape from the Poet's Stone" by Mervyn Goode, including photograph of the painting. 1987

Programmes for ceremonies held at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery at Agny, France on 9 April 1992 and 6 October 2002

Edward Thomas Fellowship visit to the Imperial War Museum and Westminster Abbey 2 July 1993

Edward Thomas Fellowship seminar on Edward Thomas held at Lincoln College, Oxford 20 November 1993

Event "Music inspired by the poetry of Edward Thomas" 24 April 1999

Account of Edward Cawston Thomas's visit to Buffalo University, New York State to view the Edward Thomas holdings, 1999

Printout of The Edward Thomas Fellowship website 14 February 2000

Edward Thomas Fellowship Study Day at Kingham Village Hall 6 July 2002

Edward Thomas Fellowship Study Day at the University of Gloucestershire 12 July 2003

Edward Thomas Fellowship Newsletters

DP/ETF/11
Subseries
October 1980 - January 2012, February 2017

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Numbers 1 - 67, 77. Includes index for numbers 1 to 66

Edward Thomas Fellowship Series

DP/ETF
Series
1930 - 2017

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Edward Thomas Fellowship

Gervase Farjeon and Anne Harvey Series

DP/GF
Series
1913 - (c.2001)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Farjeon, Gervase

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

DP/VD/48
Subseries
c.1995

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

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]

"The Poetry Review"

DP/VD/55/1
Item
January 1912

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes article "The Poetry of W W Gibson" by Maurice Browne and poems "The Stone" and "The Blind Rower" by W W Gibson

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

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

Photocopies of letters written the the Hexham Courant discussing the location of W W Gibson's birthplace and proposed commemorative plaque

DP/VD/55/4
Item
(c.1990s) c.1950s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photocopy of entry for Wilfrid Wilson Gibson in the Dictionary of National Biography 1961 - 1970

DP/VD/55/5
Item
(c.1990s) c.1970s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photocopy of a bibliography of the works of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson from an unknown publication

DP/VD/55/6
Item
(c.1990s) c.1970s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Typed bibliography of the works by and criticism of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson compiled by Roger Hogg

DP/VD/55/7
Item
1992

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes photocopy of letter from Roger Hogg to John Chirgwin regarding the bibliography, 6 July 1992

Photocopy of newspaper article "Land of singing waters" by James Black

DP/VD/55/8
Item
(c.2005) 2005

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the "Daily Mail". Discusses Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

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

Letter from Bryan Robson to Edward Eastaway Thomas regarding copyright of photocopied Edward Thomas school material

DP/ET/4/6/3
Item
14 February 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Deposit by John Chirgwin relating to Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

DP/VD/55
Subseries
1912 - 2005

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Chirgwin, F John

Deposit by John Vickers relating to John Drinkwater

DP/VD/56
Subseries
1911 - 2018

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Vickers, John

Details of the 45 lots of John Haines material sold at Bonhams on 20 June 2018

DP/VD/57/4
Item
2018

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Full catalogue entries with images. Hard-copies include pencil annotations with the figures each lot sold for

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

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"

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

Letters from Robert Frost to John Haines

DP/VD/57
Subseries
1914, 2018

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Letters from Teresa Benson-Colpi to Edward Eastaway Thomas on speaking about Edward Thomas as part of the Demarco European Art Foundation International Summer School

DP/ET/3/30
Item
22 May - 2 August 1995

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Held at Stonerwood Park, Steep

CD recording of talk "A Triangle of Letters" by Caro McIntosh

DP/ETF/10/4
Item
2004

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Delivered at The Edward Thomas Fellowship Study Day at the University of Gloucestershire on 12 June 2004. Discusses three letters found in the Dymock Poets Special Collection:
Eleanor Farjeon to Rowland Watson, 1937
Helen Thomas to Jo Dawson, 1951
Helen Thomas to Eleanor Farjeon, c. July 1964

Libretto for "Quilt Song: The Opera" composed by Suzie Self

DP/FDP/3/19
Item
2018

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Inspired by the play "Abraham Lincoln" by John Drinkwater. Performed to mark the centenary of the play's first performance on 19 October 1918 at The Birmingham Repertory Theatre. "Quilt Song" performed on 19 and 20 October 2018 at The Old Rep Theatre, Birmingham

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