Friends of the Dymock Poets Newsletter Issue 12
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- October - November 1996
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Friends of the Dymock Poets Newsletter Issue 12
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Friends of the Dymock Poets Newsletter Issue 15
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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"
Death notice for Edward Thomas
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Published in The Times. Listed under his full name "Second Lieutenant P. E. Thomas"
Newspaper article "From Hack to War Poet" by Anthony Powell
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Publication unknown. Review of "Edward Thomas: a Critical Biography" by William Cooke. With ink annotation
Studio photograph of Edward Thomas with son Merfyn as a baby by John T Williams
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Photographs of Edward Thomas's grave at Agny War Cemetery, France
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Photographer unknown
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
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Details the establishment of the fund and lists the Executive Committee as Eleanor Farjeon, John L Haines, Clifford Bax, Ian MacAlister, R F Cholmeley, William Rothenstein, Walter de la Mare and R L Watson
"Poems of Men and Hours" by John Drinkwater
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Published by David Nutt, London, first edition. Inscribed "To Francis W Bedford from John Drinkwater Xmas 1911"
"Mary Barton and Other Tales" by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Published by John Murray, London. Inscribed "To Tanya on her fourteenth birthday these eight volumes of Mrs Gaskell with love and every good wish for many many birthdays to come, from her affectionate friend Big John: London December 3rd 1928"
"The Week-End Book" edited by Vera Mendel, Francis Meynell and John Goss
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Published by The Nonesuch Press, London. Inscribed "For darling Tanya with lots of love from Auntie Jeff Christmas 1930. One horrible omission me enrages - no mention of J D within these pages"
"The Riddle and Other Stories" by Walter de la Mare
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Published by Faber and Faber, London. Inscribed "Tanya Moiseiwitch love from John"
"The Poems of Sidney Godolphin" edited by William Dighton
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Published by The Clarendon Press, Oxford. Inscribed "Tanya from John Drinkwater Nov 1934"
"Poetry and Dogma" by John Drinkwater
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Published text of the Arthur Skemp Memorial Lecture at the University of Bristol delivered on 29 January 1931. Inscribed "Tanya from Big John Drinkwater 2.7.31"
"Behold, This Dreamer" by Walter de la Mare
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Published by Faber and Faber, London. Inscribed "Tatty & Felix from John"
"Birmingham Repertory Theatre: The Playhouse and the Man" by Thomas C Kemp
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Published by Cornish Brothers Limited, Birmingham
Handwritten poem "The Heresy of an Elder or Not Believing in Fairies" by John Drinkwater
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Signed and dated. Written in Hungerford
Photograph of cast and associates for a production of "Bird in Hand" by John Drinkwater
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Featuring John Drinkwater, Peggy Ashcroft and Laurence Olivier. Taken outside the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in September 1927. Annotated with names on reverse although photograph has been cropped
Photographer unknown
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Includes article "The Poetry of W W Gibson" by Maurice Browne and poems "The Stone" and "The Blind Rower" by W W Gibson
Photocopy of article "Two of the Newest Poets" by Robert Shafer
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Published in "Atlantic Monthly". Discusses W W Gibson and John Masefield, among other English poets
Photocopy of article "Recent English Poetry" by Martin D Armstrong
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Published in "Fortnightly Review". Discusses W W Gibson, W H Davies, Lascelles Abercrombie and John Masefield
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Photocopy of a bibliography of the works of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson from an unknown publication
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Letter from Robert Frost to John Haines
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Written at Little Iddens, Ledington, Ledbury. Frost arranges to meet Haines at Newent and wishes to discuss "one or two flowers you must tell me about".
Pencil annotation "1" on envelope
Letter from Robert Frost to John Haines
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Written at Ryton, Dymock. Frost arranges to visit Haines with his daughter Lesley. Includes Frost's unvarnished opinions of Lascelles Abercrombie, Rupert Brooke, John Drinkwater and Wilfrid Wilson Gibson alongside comments on the beginning of the First World War.
Pencil annotations by John Haines
"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
"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
Leaflet "Literary walks in East Hampshire: Edward Thomas 1878-1917"
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Includes route, map and points of literary interest in the Steep area
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Section of Edward Thomas items for sale includes an autograph manuscript of an early version of his poem "October", 57 letters to John Freeman, printer's copy of "Poems" 1917, and a collection of carbon copy typescripts of poems sent by Edward Thomas to John Freeman
Sheet music "Into the Unknown: Song-cycle for high voice to poems by Edward Thomas" by P W Duffy
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Handwritten. Initially sent to Myfanwy Thomas by Mr P W Duffy
Photocopy of handwritten sheet music "The Threshold of the New" by Mary Chandler
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Musical setting of the poem "Lights Out" by Edward Thomas. Includes letter from Mary Chandler to Edward Eastaway Thomas regarding the unpublished piece of music
Photocopy of typescript of "The Sentiel" by John Haines
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Draft review of "The Last Sheaf" by Edward Thomas
Photocopy of various Edward Thomas poems
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Annotated "Edna Longley: Voice [?] South Bank 21.3.92". Includes poems "Digging", "February Afternoon", "From Lob", "Man and Dog", "A Private", "The Combe", "Rain", "Home", "Two Houses", extract from "Words" and extract from "Old Man"
Handwritten note on "GWILI" and Edward Thomas by Mair and Alun Hughes
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Article "Diary tells of chaffinches, rooks, shells and shrapnel" by Philip Howard
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Published in The Times. Refers to the discovery of Edward Thomas's diary and the forthcoming publication of his final poem dated 14 January 1917 by The Whittington Press. Also includes information sheet on The Edward Thomas Centenary Memorial
Photocopy of article "Tributes to wife and poet"
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Published in NWN on 21 July 1977, author unknown. An account of the service at St James' Church Eastbury to mark the centenary of the birth of Helen Thomas
Article "A Window for Edward Thomas"
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Published in Country Life, author unknown. Discusses the Edward Thomas centenary window at Steep
Article "The year of the artist, the poet and the martyr" by Jack Lonsdale
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Published in The Times. Details anniversaries in 1978 including the centenary of Edward Thomas's birth
"Poets put in their places" by Tony Brode
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Published in the Southern Echo. Review of "The Edward Thomas Country" by W M Whiteman. With ink annotation
Article "The poet who loved Steep"
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Published in the Petersfield Herald, author unknown. Discusses the Edward Thomas Centenary and memorial window
Article "Catch This" mounted on headed notepaper of The Edward Thomas Centenary Memorial Fund
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Published in The Sunday Times. Refers to centenary readings by Jill Balcon and John Westbrook on 4 March
Article "Surprised by Joy" by P J Kavanagh
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Published in The Sunday Telegraph Magazine. Durrant's media clipping
Article "The Edward Thomas Centenary Memorial"
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Published in the Contemporary Review, author unknown. Durrant's media clipping
Article "The Centenary of Edward Thomas" by John Arlott
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Published in "Hampshire: the county magazine"
Poetry Wales volume 13 number 4
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Edward Thomas centenary special edition. Articles include:
Letters from Edward Thomas to Robert Frost
Letter from Frost to Mrs Conkling
Edward Thomas and Robert Frost
Letters from Edward Thomas to Harold Monro
The Solitary Note: Edward Thomas and Modernism
Penderyn
A Land Without A Name
Edward Thomas and Wales
Edward Thomas' influence
Poems for Edward Thomas
Article "Centenary salute to Edward Thomas: Where a poet lost his melancholy" by Arthur Garrett
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Published in the East Hampshire Post