Newspaper cutting with parody of poem Adlestrop reflecting the Beeching railway cuts
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- 31 March 1963
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Published in The Sunday Telegraph
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Newspaper cutting with parody of poem Adlestrop reflecting the Beeching railway cuts
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Published in The Sunday Telegraph
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
"You Come Too" and meeting with Robert Frost 1957
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Draft forewords to "You Come Too"
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Handwritten and typescript drafts of Farjeon's foreward to Frost's posthumously published volume of poetry "You Come Too" including revisions and corrections. The foreward was drawn from the notes Farjeon made in 1957 of her last meeting with Frost on his return to England during that year. Page 12 is missing. Title was originally "Come With Me"
Promotional pamphlet for lectures by Lesley Frost, daughter of Robert Frost
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Includes a biography of Lesley Frost and subjects covered by her lectures
Newspaper article "A Literary Pilgrimage from Waterloo" written "from a correspondent"
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Published in The Times. Recounts a journey from Waterloo to Salisbury travelling through Edward Thomas and Richard Jefferies country.
Newspaper article "Names and Faces: Vermont Medal for Frost" by William Rollins
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Published in the New York Herald Tribune. Report of the State of Vermont's striking of a memorial seal in honour of Robert Frost, Vermont's "poet laureate"
Eleanor Farjeon - Rowland Watson Correspondence
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Correspondence mainly from Eleanor Farjeon to Rowland Watson. Includes items she sent to Rowland including a typescript of an article she wrote for the Manchester Guardian on Edward Thomas in 1937, a handlist of collected works presented to Hampstead Public Libraries in 1960, newspaper clippings, typescript foreword to "The Green Roads" and "You Come Too", photocopy of chapter "My Latter Years" by Eleanor Farjeon from "The Book of Leisure" by John Pudney, typescript of "The White House at Flansham (Its Roots and Branches)", and a mounted black and white photograph of the memorial stone on the Shoulder of Mutton, Steep in 1949
"Robert Frost Speaks Departmentally" booklet
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This booklet was produced to commemorate the dedication of the Robert Frost Library, October 24 1965. Includes extracts from two letters written in 1935 from Frost to George Frisbee Whicher when Frost was trying to finish and name the poem "Departmental". A facsimile of the poem is included. An amended "Departmental" was published in "A Further Range" in 1936
Mounted photographs of locations in Steep associated with Edward Thomas
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Includes The Red House, "ancient damson trees" in the garden of The Red House, Yew Tree Cottage and The Cricketers Inn. With ink annotations
Photographer unknown
Correspondence with Publishers
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Correspondence between Eleanor Farjeon and publishers The Bodley Head Limited and Holt, Rinehart and Winston Inc. Refers to publications "You Come Too", "London Nursery Rhymes", "Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds", "The Wasp Trap", "The Green Roads" and a volume on Edward Thomas's poetry for children
Newspaper article "A Memory of W H Hudson" by Helen Thomas
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Published in The Times. With pencil annotations
Published letter from Edward Eastaway Thomas on the death of Lord Chuter-Ede
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Published in the [?] Advertiser
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Eckert was a biographer of Edward Thomas and wrote to Watson about Thomas. Includes newspaper cuttings and an article Eckert wrote on James Guthrie and The Pear Tree Press. Includes pencil annotations
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Theresa Whistler was the second wife of artist Laurence Whistler, who designed the Edward Thomas memorial window at Eastbury. Refers to the "Memoirs of Edward Thomas" being compiled by Watson, and Meyerstein. Includes pencil annotations
Newspaper obituary for Robert Eckert Jr
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Published in The Times. Discusses his interest in Edward Thomas
Three mounted newspaper cuttings advertising radio programmes on Edward Thomas
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Advertising "Edward Thomas" by Frank Baker on 16 March 1960, "... A Poet Still" by Frank Baker on 16 March 1966 and "The Poet and Nature" by Harry Coombes on 2 April 1966
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Letters from K C Harrison, City of Westminster Librarian, accepting donation of memoirs of Miss Ethel Marston. With pencil annotations
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Refers to etchings, the poem "Calf Love", meetings with Alan Thomas [friend of Edward Thomas] and Helen Thomas, life since his wife died and his publications
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One letter undated and one dated 1947 which should be 1967. Refers to copying letters from Jack Haines and Robert Frost, and sympathy on the death of Helen Thomas [d.1967]
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Letters from Robert P Eckert's widow. Includes news of Eckert's death with a newspaper obituary from The Times from 11 November 1966, and discusses a home for his Edward Thomas collection, which is now at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
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Refers to Robert P Eckert's death and Meyerstein
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Letter and formal invitation card
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Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Refers to monies raised at an auction and his own family papers
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Walter Oakeshott was the Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford. Refers to an exhibition on Edward Thomas
Typescript of radio talk "Edward Thomas: Poet" by Bernard Price
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Memories of Edward Thomas letters
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Letters from those who knew Edward Thomas recounting memories and from publishers regarding publication of the finished manuscript. Includes typescript of memories by Robert Frost sent to John Haines 20 January 1921 and typescript of article on Thomas by Walter de la Mare published in "The Saturday Westminster Gazette" 28 April 1917
Respondents include:
Jessie Berridge
R F Cholmeley
R H Collins
Norman Douglas
Franklin Dyall
David Garnett
E L Grant-Watson
Harry Hooton
J H Morgan
N Hamilton-Fyfe
Elis Jenkins
Franklin Lushington [Thomas's Officer Commanding at Arras]
Ian MacAlister
H E Mann
Margaret Nash
Conal O'Riordan
Lucian Oldershaw
J K Ratcliffe
Ronald Richings [Personal Secretary to Hilaire Belloc]
Winifred Roberts
F G Salter
R A Scott-James
Ernest H Thomas
Merfyn Thomas
Philip Hy Thomas
Theodore Eastaway Thomas
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Refers to any known recordings of Meyerstein's voice
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Robin Guthrie [b.1902 d.1971] was the son of James Guthrie. Letters include news of the death of Robert's son, the death of Robert P Eckert Jr. and a broadcast on Edward Thomas
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Dorothy MacAlister was the widow of Ian MacAlister, friend of Edward Thomas. Includes pencil annotations
Newspaper obituary and transcript copy for Helen Thomas
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Published in The Times
Article "A Remembered Harvest" by Helen Thomas
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Published in "Études Anglaises" volume 20 number 2. Describes time living on a farm in the Weald of Kent c.1907
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Typescripts of radio talk "Edward Thomas (1878-1917)" by Thomas Walton
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One typescript in English and another in French produced by BBC French Language Services and broadcast on 10 and 11 April 1967
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Refers to meeting, Edward Thomas, his biography on Edward Thomas and the memorial to Edward Thomas
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Article "Remembering Edward Thomas" by D Macer Wright
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Published in "Country Life"
Article "Edward Thomas, Poet and Critic" by R George Thomas
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Published in "Essays and Studies 1968"
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Published in The Daily Telegraph
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Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Regards BBC radio broadcast on Edward Thomas by Bernard Price. Includes newspaper cuttings and pencil annotations
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Includes loose note on the opening times of the exhibition from the Keeper
Postcard from "Nick" to Edward Eastaway Thomas
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Execution of Meyerstein's will
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Documents relating to E H W Meyerstein's death and the role of Rowland Watson as executor of his will. Includes:
Correspondence from John Farquharson Limited Business Manager and Philip Larkin whilst Librarian at the University of Hull
Detailed valuation lists of Meyerstein's estate and books and papers held in the crypt of Godrington Library, All Souls College, Oxford
Newspaper cuttings regarding the Meyerstein library sale
Publishers agreements between the executors of the Meyerstein estate regarding the royalties for his works "Phoebe Thirsk", "Of My Early Life", "Selected Poems of E H W Meyerstein", "Some Letters of E H W Meyerstein", "Verse Letters to Five Friends" and "Bollond"
Information on the Chatterton Lecture at the British Academy funded by a bequest from the Meyerstein estate
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Includes pencil annotations
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Includes some correspondence from Helen Thomas to Watson. Includes family news and discussions on Edward Thomas
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Held at All Saints Church, Steep