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- 1930-c.1956
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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
Administration regarding Robert Frost visit 1957
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Includes letter from Margaret Haferd, Librarian at the United States Information Service, American Embassy London, and poster and invitation to Robert Frost's lecture "Swinger of Birches" at the University of London
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Full notes of Eleanor Farjeon's last meeting with Robert Frost during his return to England in 1957 which were used as the basis for her foreward to Frost's posthumously published volume of poetry, "You Come Too" [original title "Come With Me"]. Written in Farjeon's hand in the margin "Robert Frost - written rapidly an[d)] inconsecutively - must be arranged in its order - Try to describe his way of talking"
Letters to Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
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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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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
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Refers to book on Meyerstein
Page from biography book detailing Edward Thomas and Helen Thomas
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With pencil annotation
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Includes handwritten notes and typescripts "A Remarkable Pair: Bob Saunders and Geoffrey Williams", "Helen Thomas" written for The Times after her death, and "Lord Horder" written after his death
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Moiseiwitsch, Tanya
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"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
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Photocopied list of Edward Thomas letters deposited at Battersea Library by Rowland Watson
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With ink annotation
Edward Thomas Memorial at Steep
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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
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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
Postcard from Lesley Frost to Eleanor Farjeon
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Shows photograph of Robert Frost's cabin in Ripon, Vermont. The reverse reads "To Eleanor Farjeon with my love Lesley Frost Xmas 1963"
Newspaper article "Poets' Holiday in the Shadow of War" by Helen Thomas
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Published in The Times. Recounts the journey to Dymock in August 1914
Newspaper article "The Discovery of W H Davies" by Helen Thomas
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Published in The Times. Discusses Edward Thomas's discovery of W H Davies after reading "The Soul's Destroyer"
Newspaper cutting with parody of poem Adlestrop reflecting the Beeching railway cuts
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Published in The Sunday Telegraph