Special Collections and Archives

Signed Thirty-Second Edward Thomas Birthday Walk card

DP/ETF/2/3/38
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7 March 2004

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Illustrated. Includes loose postcard from Richard and Liz Emeny to Myfanwy Thomas, itinerary and map of the route

Mounted photographs of an Edward Thomas Birthday Walk

DP/ETF/2/4/2
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c.2000s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photographer unknown. Taken at the Shoulder of Mutton and Steep area

Programme for "Walking with Edward: A Centenary Tribute in Words and Pictures"

DP/ETF/4/7
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5 March 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Performed at Steep Village Hall. Compiled and presented by Michael Bakewell with Hugh Dickson and Valerie Sarruf

Programme for the performance of "Edward Thomas 1878 - 1917: a reading from his poetry and prose to commemorate the centenary of his birth"

DP/ETF/4/11
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2 April 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Performed at Kenwood, the Iveagh Bequest. Chosen and arranged by John Carroll with Richard Pasco and Barbara Leigh Hunt. Includes programme "Sundays in the Orangery"

Flyer and list of exhibits for the Edward Thomas Centenary Flower Festival

DP/ETF/4/15
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23-25 June 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Held at All Saints' Church, Steep

Programme for performance of "A Pine in Solitude: A Portrait of Edward Thomas (1878-1917)" at the 25th Stratford upon Avon Poetry Festival

DP/ETF/4/17
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3 September 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Performed by Anne Harvey, Jane Lapotaire, Julian Glover and Benjamin Whitrow

Includes general programme for the 25th Stratford upon Avon Poetry Festival

Programme and information for the Edward Thomas Centenary bike ride

DP/ETF/4/19
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15 October 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Arranged by Anne Mallinson of The Selborne Bookshop and the Southern Veteran Cycle Club

Transcript for radio programme "A Closer Look: Edward Thomas" broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 28 February 1982

DP/ETF/4/28
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March 1982

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Presented by Vernon Scannell

Includes letters from the BBC, Vernon Scannell and Myfanwy Thomas

Flyer for performance of "A Pine in Solitude: Edward Thomas" at Swiss Cottage on 14 November 1982

DP/ETF/4/30
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1982

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Performed by Anne Harvey, Tom Durham, Annette Crosby and Benjamin Whitrow

Includes Camden Winter Season brochure 1982-1983

Flyer for performance of "A Pine in Solitude: a portrait in words of Edward Thomas 1878-1917" at Harrow Arts Centre

DP/ETF/4/31
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23 January 1983

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Performed by Annette Crosbie, Tom Durham, Anne Harvey and Cyril Luckham

Press release and programme for performance of "Lights Out"

DP/ETF/4/32
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4 September c.1983

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Performance on the life and writings of Edward Thomas at the Chichester Festival Theatre at West Dean College. Presented by Patrick Garland and Patricia Hodge

Letters, programmes, leaflets and articles relating to the "Dymock 900" celebrations

DP/ETF/4/33
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December 1983 - October 1985

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Celebrations of the 900th anniversary of the mention of Dymock in the Domesday book in 1085. Includes:

Dymock 900 souvenir programme and leaflet
Letters from the Reverend R J Legg [vicar of Dymock], Reverend Richard Harries [Dean of King's College London] and The Cantilena Singers
Newspaper article "Festival at Dymock" published in The Sunday Telegraph, 7 April 1985
Article "The Summer of 1914" by Anne Harvey published in Country Bazaar, with reference to Dymock 900
Typescript of talk by Reverend Richard Harries "Faith and Poetry", delivered at the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Dymock on 14 July 1985
Programme for the performance of "Elected Friends" at Dymock Church, 13 October 1985
Cheltenham Festival of Literature 1985 programme with details of a performance of "Elected Friends", 13 October 1985

Programme for event "Music inspired by the poetry of Edward Thomas" held at The Royal College of Music, London

DP/ETF/4/43
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24 April 1999

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Hosted by The Edward Thomas Fellowship

Edward Thomas Centenary Memorial Committee minutes

DP/ETF/5/1/1
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20 May 1977

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Held at Steep Church and Vicarage

The Edward Thomas Fellowship Annual General Meeting agenda, minutes, attendance list and accounts for 1985 and 1986

DP/ETF/5/2/2
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2 March 1986

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Held at Bedales School

Edward Thomas to John Freeman

DP/ETF/6/3/3
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(c.1990s) 15 January 1909 - 4 April 1917

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Annotated. Part of a private collection sold to the Berg Collection, New York in 1979

Edward Thomas to "Gwili" [John Jenkins]

DP/ETF/6/3/5
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(c.1990s) 27 February 1906

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Annotated

Edward Thomas to John Haines

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

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Handwritten by Professor R George Thomas

Edward Thomas to Harry Hooton

DP/ETF/6/3/7
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(c.1990s) 16 June 1899 - 30 June 1909, c.1950

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Annotated

Includes photocopy of typescript of Harry Hooton's reminiscences of Edward Thomas collected by Rowland Watson [DP/RW/2/1]

Edward Thomas to [?] Deacon

DP/ETF/6/3/18
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(c.1990s) 22 March 1917

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Handwritten by Professor R George Thomas

Typescript of letter from N C Kochinsky to Edward Thomas

DP/ETF/3/6/20
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c.1990s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Russian Bedales boy who stayed with the Thomases during the summer holidays. Original letter sent 28 June c.1914. With pencil annotation

Mid Northumberland Arts Group publications leaflet

DP/ETF/7/9
Item
c.1980

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes information on an Edward Thomas poster and Tall Nettles poetry poster

Printed extract of an Edward Thomas quote on history and and the passing of time

DP/ETF/7/15
Item
c.1980s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Originally published in South Country. Printed by Libanus Press

Sale catalogue entry for a holograph letter made by Edward Thomas of a letter to W B Parker of Houghton Mifflin

DP/ETF/7/16
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January 1980

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

From catalogue 104 G F Sims Rare Books

Describes Parker's decline of "Horae Solitariae" and Thomas's reply "Many thanks for the gentle muffled blow you have delivered"

Information and order form for "The Poetry of Edward Thomas" by Andrew Motion

DP/ETF/7/17
Item
1980

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Routledge & Kegan Paul. Order form from The Selborne Bookshop

Notice for the publication of "The Poetry of Edward Thomas" by Andrew Motion

DP/ETF/7/18
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1980

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Routledge & Kegan Paul

Carcanet publication catalogues featuring "Edward Thomas: Selected Prose" and "Edward Thomas: A Language not to be Betrayed: The Selected Prose"

DP/ETF/7/19
Item
1980 - 1981

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Order form for "One of These Fine Days" by Myfanwy Thomas

DP/ETF/7/20
Item
1982

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Carcanet New Press Limited. Order form for The Selborne Bookshop

Printed and illustrated poem Adlestrop by Edward Thomas

DP/ETF/7/24
Item
c.1990s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Illustrated by "V F"

Photocopies of Edward Thomas articles published in The Bookman

DP/ETF/7/25
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(c.1990s) c.1906 - 1915

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Annotated

Photocopy of letter from W S Suman [?] to Helen Thomas

DP/ETF/7/26
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(c.1990s)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Original written 27 August 1965. Recounts a meeting with Helen Thomas in 1915 when she took Bronwen and Myfanwy to have their eyes examined

Photocopy of poem "Who Are Awake: for Edward Thomas with red poppies" by Mary Casey

DP/ETF/7/28
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c.1990s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Originally written 12 November 1972

Photographs of the laying of a wreath on the grave of Edward Thomas to mark the centenary of his birth

DP/ETF/9/1
Item
3 March 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Taken at Agny Military Cemetery, photographer unknown

Includes letter from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to Alan Martin accompanying the photographs, 12 June 1978

Photograph of the grave of Edward Thomas and surrounding graves

DP/ETF/9/7
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November 1986

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photographer unknown. Taken at Agny Military Cemetery

Photographs of a wreath laid on the grave of Edward Thomas to mark the 70th anniversary of his death

DP/ETF/9/8
Item
9 April 1987

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photographer unknown. Taken at Agny Military Cemetery

CD recording of Myfanwy Thomas interview by Chris Brown, Bridge Cottage, Eastbury, January 1983

DP/ETF/10/2
Item
2006

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes Myfanwy reading extracts from her book "One of These Fine Days"

CD recording of talk "Out of the Woods of Thoughts" by Steve Martin

DP/ETF/10/3
Item
2004

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Introduced by Anne Harvey. Delivered at The Edward Thomas Fellowship Study Day at the University of Gloucestershire on 12 June 2004. Puts Edward Thomas poetry to music

Photocopy of essay "All the Difference: The Impact of England on Frost's Realistic Voice" by Heather Rosanna Marinello

DP/FDP/1/2
Item
2000

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Department of English, University of North Carolina. Discusses the impact Robert Frost's stay in England had on his writing

Letter from Jeff Cooper, Membership Secretary of the Friends of the Dymock Poets, to Dr Philip Martin welcoming him to the society

DP/FDP/2/2
Item
c.1995

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Leaflet for "Dymock Poets: A day of events"

DP/FDP/3/5
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4 October 1997

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Held in Ledbury

Information for event "Robert Frost: The Road Taken" by Gabriel Woolf

DP/FDP/3/8
Item
1998

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Held at both the Ledbury Poetry Festival and Cheltenham Festival of Literature

Leaflet for "Dymock Poets: A weekend of events in conjunction with the Autumn in Malvern Festival"

DP/FDP/3/10
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9 - 10 October 1999

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes talk "A Tale of Two Counties: Wilfrid Gibson in Northumberland and Gloucestershire" by Professor Kelsey Thornton

Flyer for event "Ivor Gurney "Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-sort" (1890 - 1937): A portrait in words and music of the First World War poet from Gloucester who was also known as the English Schubert"

DP/FDP/3/12
Item
21 October 2001

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Held at the Royal Festival Hall. Featuring Malcolm Sinclair, Jan Carey, Ian Partridge and Jennifer Partridge

Programme for the opening of the new Dymock Poets exhibition at St Mary's Church, Dymock

DP/FDP/3/17
Item
6 October 2006

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

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

DP/FDP/3/19
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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

Flyer for "Quilt Song: A story of freedom" opera written by Suzie Self

DP/FDP/3/21
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2018

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Performed at The Old Rep Theatre Birmingham on 19 and 20 October 1918. Performed to mark the centenary of the performance of Abraham Lincoln at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre on 19 October 1918

Documents relating to the public meeting to discuss the sale of Little Iddens, Robert Frost's Cottage

DP/FDP/4/1
Item
9 September 1993

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

This meeting marked the foundation of the Friends of the Dymock Poets ["Robert Frost Cottage Appeal Executive Trust"]. Held at Dymock Parish Hall.

Includes notice for the meeting with information about the sale; Information leaflet on Little Iddens; Typescript of Linda Hart's opening remarks at the meeting, annotated

Friends of the Dymock Poets Newsletter Issue 5

DP/FDP/5/5
Item
March 1995

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Friends of the Dymock Poets Newsletter Issue 7

DP/FDP/5/7
Item
July 1995

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Friends of the Dymock Poets Newsletter Issue 8

DP/FDP/5/8
Item
October 1995

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes flyer for publication "Once They Lived in Gloucestershire" by Linda Hart

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