Printed copy of the wording of the will of Edward Thomas
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- c.1950s
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
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Printed copy of the wording of the will of Edward Thomas
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Letter from Christopher Hassall to Michael Gibson
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Mentions a visit to 10 Downing Street which "may prove productive" and a form Wilfrid Wilson Gibson may receive relating to his finances that "may turn out to be of real importance to him"
Address book of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
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Contains the contact details for a wide range of contemporary literary figures and organisations as well as other family and friends
Photograph of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, Geraldine Gibson and their daughter-in-law Dee
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Annotated on reverse
Photographer unknown
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Includes "Why He Left Ancient Monuments Commission"; "An Edward Thomas Memory"; "Edward Thomas Book for the Spitfire"; "Edward Thomas Memorial"; "How Edward Thomas Died"; "Edward Thomas: Some Swansea Reminiscences"
Typescript page discussing Edward Thomas's poem "Over the Hills"
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Author unknown. With ink annotation
Photograph of E H W Meyerstein with Carol Gere [?]
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With pencil annotation
Photographer unknown
Obituary for Sir Theodore Thomas in The Times
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Memories of Edward Thomas manuscript
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Typescript of manuscript of memories of Edward Thomas collected by Rowland Watson. Includes ink annotations
"One More Brevity" Christmas greeting
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Annual Christmas greeting from Robert Frost. 4,501 copies printed by The Spiral Press, New York. Includes decorations by Philip Grushkin. This was one of the 375 copies printed with Frost's name as the sender. This poem was collected in "The Clearing" published 1962
"Oliver Cromwell: a play" by John Drinkwater
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Published by Sidgwick & Jackson Limited, London
"From a Milkweed Pod" Christmas greeting
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Annual Christmas greeting from Robert Frost. 5,076 copies printed by The Spiral Press, New York. Includes wood engravings by Thomas W Nason. This was one of the 425 copies printed with Frost's name as the sender. This poem was collected in "The Clearing" published 1962
Typescripts of letters from E H W Meyerstein to Walter de la Mare
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Recipients referred to as "de la Mare" and "Jack". Letters dated 11 August 1938 - 5 November 1946. Includes covering letter from Watson to his daughter Sanchia and son-in-law Lyn accompanying the typescript which he describes as "Eddie's letters to De La M", dated 9 July 1956
"Kitty Hawk" Christmas greeting
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Annual Christmas greeting from Robert Frost. 7,000 copies printed by The Spiral Press, New York. Includes woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi. This was one of the 525 copies printed with Frost's name as the sender. The final version of this poem was collected in "The Clearing" published 1962
Newspaper article "He Went, Singing" by Oliver Edwards
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Published in The Times. A review of the life and works of Edward Thomas with references to Helen Thomas's "As it Was" and "World Without End"
Article "Memories of a Poet's Wife by Mrs Lascelles Abercrombie"
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Published in The Listener. Written by Catherine Abercrombie
Newspaper article "The man who talks about the perigrine machine" by David Holloway
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Published in the News Chronicle. An interview with Robert Frost conducted during his visit to England in 1957
Newspaper article "New England Poet"
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Published in The Observer. A profile of Frost's life and career published at the time of Frost's visit to England in 1957
Letter from Dorothy Una Ratcliffe to Wilfrid Wilson Gibson describing a meeting with Hugh MacDiarmid
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Written from The Percy Arms Hotel, Otterburn, Northumberland. Recalls a recent meeting with the Scottish poet, Hugh MacDiarmid where they discussed Gibson's work, for which he expressed a "great liking" and Roy Campbell's which he "loathes". Dorothy Una Ratcliffe was editor of the Northern Broadsheet and a friend of Wilfrid's who was later to deposit a large collection of his material in the Brotherton Library, Leeds
Magazine article "A Poet's Pilgrimage"
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Publication and author unknown. An illustrated account of Frost's return to Dymock in May 1957
Letter from Eustace Morgan to Wilfrid Wilson Gibson regarding Robert Frost's visit to England
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Morgan recalls Frost as being "half farmer, half professor"
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Published in The Daily Telegraph United States Supplement. A fictional debate between an American and an Englishman over the relative cultural maturity of America in which the American cites the poems of Robert Frost as evidence of that maturity
Letter from Christopher Hassall to Michael Gibson
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Asking for permission quote from letters sent from Wilfrid Wilson Gibson to Edward Marsh for inclusion in his book
Letter from Christopher Hassall to Michael Gibson
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Gives thanks for the loan of a book and sketch of Edward Marsh drawn by Violet Duchess of Rutland, owned by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson and which appears on page 96 of Hassall's biography of Edward Marsh
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Annual Christmas greeting from Robert Frost. 9,155 copies printed by The Spiral Press, New York. Includes wood engravings by Stefan Martin. This was one of the 660 copies printed with Frost's name as the sender. The poem was collected in "The Clearing" published 1962
Letter from Christopher Hassall to Michael Gibson
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Thanking Michael for permission to publish letters from Wilfrid Wilson Gibson to Edward Marsh. Refers to trip to Wales to give recitals on Dylan Thomas and giving the Edward Marsh book to the publishers after 5 years and 1 month
"A-Wishing Well" Christmas greeting
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Annual Christmas greeting from Robert Frost. 10,760 copies printed by The Spiral Press, New York. Includes wood engravings by Thomas W Nason. This was one of the 600 copies printed with Frost's name as the sender. The poem was collected in "The Clearing" published 1962
Letter from Helen Thomas to Eleanor Farjeon
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Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Publication and author unknown. Comments on the assignment of copyright of Brooke's poems to de la Mare, Abercrombie and Gibson and the future intentions of the three holders of the Brooke estate Sir John Sheppard, Christopher Hassall and Sir Geoffrey Keynes
Photocopy of letter from Edward Thomas to "My dear friend"
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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 of letter from Edward Thomas to "My dear friend"
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Written to an unknown recipient describing conditions on the Western Front, stating "I should like to come home some day, but do not exactly expect to, though I know I have a fair chance". Send love to Mrs Williams and Miss John
Copy of blueprint for the Edward Thomas memorial plaque at Berryfield Cottage
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Reads "Here lived Edward Thomas: Poet Born 1878 Died 1917"
Photographs of Edward Thomas's grave at Agny War Cemetery, France
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Photographer unknown
Page from biography book detailing Edward Thomas and Helen Thomas
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Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
With pencil annotation
"Accidentally on Purpose" Christmas greeting
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Annual Christmas greeting from Robert Frost. 10,600 copies printed by The Spiral Press, New York. This was one of the 600 copies printed with Frost's name as the sender. The poem was collected in "The Clearing" published 1962
Photocopied list of Edward Thomas letters deposited at Battersea Library by Rowland Watson
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With ink annotation
Photocopy of Edward Thomas Memorial Fund accounts year ending 31 December 1937
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£245 10s 4d received in subscriptions. Compiled by Gibson, Harris, Prince & Co. Chartered Accountants
Photograph of pencil sketch of Edward Thomas by Ernest Henry Thomas
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Signed by his brother Ernest Henry Thomas, dated 2 August 1905
Photographer unknown
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Published by The Cranbrook Tower Press, London. Signed limited edition copy number 100A of 999. Inscribed "May 17th 1966: Daisy Kennedy Drinkwater: (and, later on, for Tanya Moiseiwitch Krish)"
Letter from Christopher Hassall to Michael Gibson
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Further condolences on the death of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Newspaper article "Wilfrid Gibson, people's poet"
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Published in The Guardian, author unknown. Claims Krindlesyke to have been his masterpiece, after which "the force of his art seemed to have declined". It dismisses his inclusion as a Georgian Poet, claiming his methods and aims to be quite different to the other poets within the group. It mentions his association with Lascelles Abercrombie
"The Prophets Really Prophesy as Mystics, The Commentators Merely by Statistics" Christmas greeting
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Annual Christmas greeting from Robert Frost. 17,055 copies printed by The Spiral Press, New York. This was one of the 630 copies printed with Frost's name as the sender
Newspaper article "Wilfrid Gibson"
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Published in The Sunday Telegraph. Obituary for Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Newspaper obituary of Ralph Hodgson written by Helen Thomas
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Letter from Christopher Hassall to Michael Gibson
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Expressing sympathy at the death of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson. He praises his "sweetness of nature" and "gentle, true poetic gift"
Newspaper article "Mr Wilfrid Gibson: Trenchant Poet of the Poor"
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Published in The Times, author unknown. Obituary for Wilfrid Wilson Gibson that praises him as the "poet of the inarticulate poor" and comments on his relationship with the other Dymock Poets and on his success in America
Newspaper clipping "Wilfrid Gibson"
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Letter published in the Yorkshire Post from B S Page, the Keeper of the Brotherton Collection, University of Leeds, commenting on the donation by D U McGrigor-Phillips [Dorothy Una Ratcliffe] of a collection of letters and poems by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Newspaper article "Farewell to Adelstrop" written "from a correspondent"
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Published in The Times at the time of Dr Beeching's railway cuts
Photocopy of official copy of the handwritten will of Edward Thomas
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From the Principal Probate Registry of the High Court of Justice