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Memories of Edward Thomas letters

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

Newspaper article "Mr Gibson"

Published in the Manchester Guardian, author "H I'A F". A review of "Coldknuckles" praising Gibson's handling of the Northumbrian dialect. The cutting was forwarded to Frederick Mullen Ltd. and is glued to a pre-printed form

Articles and Publications 1940s

"Books in General" by V S Pritchett published in The New Statesman and Nation, 22 March 1947. Refers to a lecture by Rupert Brooke given to Cambridge University's Fabian Society in 1911

"The Artist Once" published in The Times Literary Supplement, 22 March 1947. Review if "Democracy and the Arts" by Rupert Brooke

Letter from Iolo A Williams published in The Times Literary Supplement 5 April 1947 querying the date of Rupert Brooke's lecture "Democracy and the Arts" at Cambridge

Cutting with photograph of the unveiling of a plaque to Edward Thomas at 61 Shelgate Road, Battersea c.1949

Other Publications

Transcript of the introduction to Rowland Watson's book "Old Inns" by Clifford Bax

"Strawberry Hill Then and Now" pamphlet by Reverend P J Dunning

Photocopy of "New Paths: Verse, Prose and Pictures 1917-1918"

Typescript of poem "Red Pardoy (after Browning)" initialled T H

Order of service for the funeral of James Edward Charles Langham, 12 October 1967

List of materials displayed at the "Poets of the First World War Exhibition" at the Imperial War Museum November 1974 - June 1975

"Doom to Bloom" Christmas greeting

Annual Christmas greeting from Robert Frost. 3,750 copies printed by The Spiral Press, New York. This was one of 400 copies printed with Frost's name as the sender. With wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg. The poem was collected in "The Clearing" published 1962 with the title "Our Doom to Bloom"

Ian MacAlister

Ian MacAlister [b.1878 d.1957] was a friend of Edward Thomas. Refers to letters of Edward Thomas now held at Battersea Public Library . Includes pencil annotations

Execution of Meyerstein's will

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

"One More Brevity" Christmas greeting

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

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