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"The Augustan Books of Modern Poetry" box edited by Edward Thompson and Humbert Wolfe

Velvet-lined box containing the following pamphlets published by Ernest Benn Limited, London:

Matthew Arnold
Hilaire Belloc
Emily Brontë
Rupert Brooke
Robert Burns
G K Chesterton
W H Davies
Walter de la Mare
John Donne
Wilfrid Gibson
Alice Meynell
Robert Louis Stevenson
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Alfred, Lorn Tennyson
Edward Thomas
Francis Thompson
W B Yeats

Handmade Shakespeare book cabinet by John Drinkwater

Handmade bookcase housing the following Shakespeare pocket editions:

A Midsummer Night's Dream
As You Like It
Coriolanus
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
King John
King Henry IV Part II
King Henry V
King Lear
King Richard II
King Richard III
Macbeth
Measure for Measure
Much Ado About Nothing
Shakespeare's Hamlet Prince of Denmark
Shakespeare's Macbeth
Shakespeare's Pericles
Shakespeare's Timon of Athens
The Merchant of Venice
The Tempest
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Venus and Adonis

Volumes inscribed "Tanya from Big John July 1928" and "Tanya from John D 1931". Includes handwritten label "John Drinkwater made this bookcase of is Shakespeare collection when in Birmingham (or Nottingham) & gave it to Tanya Moiseiwitsch" and small image of a pencil drawing of Drinkwater's profile

Photocopies and prints of images of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

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, Geraldine and Wilfrid outside The Old Nail Shop, and interior images of The Old Nail Shop. With pencil annotations

Photographer unknown

Newspaper articles on the Dymock Poets, St Mary's Church in Dymock and May Hill

Article "A literary 'footnote'" by George Henderson published in The Citizen 23 December 1994
Photocopy of article "To the top of the singing hill" by Gerald Isaaman published in The Daily Mail's Weekend magazine 25 November 1995
Article "St Mary's draws poetic pilgrims" by George Henderson published in The Citizen 14 September 1996

Letters from John Freeman

Photocopies and transcripts of letters and postcards covering a wide range of subjects including Freeman's poetry and details of his social and domestic life. Also includes one letter from Gertrude Freeman

John Freeman (1880-1929) was a poet and critic

Letters from Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

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

Letters from Various Sources

Photocopies of letters and cards from friends of Haines. They include thank you letters from children, expressions of sympathy on the death of his father and comments on contemporary literature. Authors include Marion M Scott, C W B Marsh, Madge Balfour, Lilian Gale, Ethel Priday, Dot Whitley and C C Haines

Also includes a letter to Alice from "Papa" dated 1864

Photographs of people and places associated with Laurie Lee

Photographs annotated on reverse
Photograph of the exterior of Laurie Lee's birthplace in Uplands, Stroud
Photograph of the exterior of the London flat where Laurie Lee lived and wrote for 35 years
Photograph of the memorial to Laurie Lee "El Oranescritor" that stands on the sea front at Almuñécar, Spain
Photograph of Barbara Hooper interviewing Señor Manuel Mateos, who knew Laurie Lee in 1935, in Almuñécar, Spain
Photograph of mounted photograph of Laurie Lee in Africa c.1948 with inscription "Jan love from Laurie (The Desert Fox) Sahara"

Photographer unknown

Sheet music relating to Edward Thomas

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, oboe and piano" by Kenneth V Jones
"The Source" by Edward Thomas and Michael Tippett
"Gone, Gone Again" by Edward Thomas
"Tall Nettles" by Edward Thomas
"Snow" by Edward Thomas and John Jeffreys [pencil annotation]
"Snow" by Edward Thomas and Ivor Gurney
"Prelude in D flat" by Ivor Gurney
"The Night Songs of Edward Thomas" by Michael Hurd
"Out in the Dark" by Edward Thomas and Edmund Rubbra
"Two Poems of Edward Thomas for S A T B Choir" by Howard Skempton. Commissioned by the Council for the Protection of Rural England in celebration of their 70th anniversary
"World Without End" by Trevor Hold. For the Crispian Trio in memory of Helen and Edward Thomas
"Early One Morning" by Trevor Hold
"Lights Out" by Ivor Gurney

Also includes "additional music found in the archives of Edward Eastaway Thomas after his death":
"The Cherry Trees" by Edward Thomas and Ivor Gurney
"The Bridge" by Edward Thomas and Edward Eastaway Thomas
"The Threshold of the New" by Mary Chandler
"The Trumpet" by Edward Thomas and Owen Mase
"The Huckster" by Edward Thomas and William Garnett
"Into the Unknown" by Edward Thomas and P W Duffy

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

Letters and postcards from Edward Eastaway Thomas

Includes essay "The Edward Thomas Birthday Walk" c.1982; copy of article "Edward Thomas & Battersea: Some Connections" published in The Wandsworth Historian December 1978; copy of Edward Thomas book reviews published in The Wandsworth Historian September 1979; letter accompanying correspondence between Rowland Watson and Julian Thomas between 1936 - 1948 given to Edward by Cherry Watson [now missing]; final letter from Edward's wife Ruth Dyson

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