Special Collections and Archives

Photocopy of articles "A Georgian for our time" by Naomi Lewis and "Handbook to Edward Thomas"

DP/ET/1/79
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undated

Naomi Lewis article a review of "Letters from Edward Thomas to Gordon Bottomley". Includes handwritten annotation by Edward Eastaway Thomas

Photocopy of articles on Belleville Road Schools and Edward Thomas who was a past pupil

DP/MT/1/9/14
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(c.1980s) 1977

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

By Roger Logan. With pencil annotation by Myfanwy Thomas

Photocopy of articles "The high noon of British bookishness" by Neil Berry and "The Final Word" by Patric Dickinson

DP/MT/1/10/36
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(c.1980s) November 1985

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in Books and Bookmen; Country Life. Both are book reviews of "Edward Thomas: A Portrait" by R George Thomas

Photocopy of article"Selling out the public" by Richard Cork

ST/5/2/3/37
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(c.1980s) 18 - 25 December 1986

Part of Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail Archive

Published in "The Listener". Quotes the Sculpture Trail as "an ambitious scheme in the Forest of Dean, where several young artists were invited to make a variety of works specifically for woodland sites. It was a memorable project... worth repeating"

Photocopy of Bertram Rota sale catalogue number 245 "The Great War 1914-1918"

DP/ET/7/5
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(c.1980s)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Annotated "From Carl Dons 12/88". Included for sale is a copy of "Background" by Franklin Lushington, inscribed to Helen Thomas in 1931. Lushington commanded the battery in which Edward Thomas was serving at the time of his death in April 1917. It was Lushington who provided the poet's widow with an account of her husband's burial: "As we stood by his grave the sun came and the guns round seemed to stop firing for a short time. This typified to me what stood out most in your husband's character - the spirit of quiet, sunny, unassuming cheerfulness"

Photocopy of "Body Songs" sung by students at smoking concerts 1951 - 1953

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Includes letter from Noel Parry accompanying D526, 14 September 2001

Parry, Noel

Photocopy of book chapter "Walking with Edward Thomas" by Eleanor Farjeon

DP/GF/1/9
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(c.1980s)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication unknown

Photocopy of book review of "Helen Thomas, with Myfanwy Thomas: Under Storm's Wing" by P E Mitchell

DP/MT/1/10/56
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(c.1980s) 1989

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in "English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920" volume 32.1

Photocopy of book review on "The Art of Edward Thomas: Edited by Jonathan Barker" by Lawrence Normand

DP/MT/1/10/55
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(c.1980s) 1989

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Powys Review

Photocopy of cast list for student production of "Murder in the Cathedral" c.1949

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Photocopy of chapter "Company" from book "One of These Fine Days" by Myfanwy Thomas

DP/MT/1/10/12
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(c.1980s) c.1980s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photocopy of chapter "Death of a Soldier Poet" from book "Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph" by Lawrance Thompson

DP/MT/1/8/4
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(c.1980s) c.1966

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Details the relationship between Edward Thomas and Robert Frost

Photocopy of chapter "Edward Thomas" from "Studies in Contemporary Literature" by H G Wright

DP/MT/1/3/12
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(c.1990s) 1918

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photocopy of chapter "First Services" from book "A Home of Fellowship" by Arthur Porritt

DP/MT/1/5/3
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(c.1990s) 1932

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

A history of Balham Congregational Church and Lennor Hall Institute 1880 - 1930

With ink annotations

Photocopy of chapter "Saved Time"

DP/MT/1/3/2
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(c.1990s) 1911

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication and author unknown

Photocopy of chapter "Six letters from Robert Frost to Edward Thomas" by R George Thomas

DP/MT/1/10/17
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(c.1980s) c.1980s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication unknown

Photocopy of chapter "The Poetry of Edward Thomas at 'A' Level: A matter of tone" by Ian Brinton

DP/MT/1/10/16
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(c.1980s) c.1980s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in "The Use of English"

Photocopy of chapters "Eastbury, for a Memorial Window" and "Edward Thomas Country" by Ethel Mannin

DP/MT/1/9/5
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(c.1980s) 1972

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in "England: My Adventure"

Photocopy of circular notice C Ballatine, Senior Lecturer in English, accompanying spoof assignment question written by Peter Graham and Phil Gomley

D459/1
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(1989) 29 April 1983

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Photocopy of Culham College prospectus 1963

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Photocopy of description of plant "Artemisia Abrotanum" or "Old Man"

DP/MT/1/5/2
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(c.1990s) 1931

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Taken from "The Gardener's Chapbook"

Photocopy of "Devon Life" with details of a Peter Thursby exhibition in Topsham

D650/2
Item
(c.2011) August 2011

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Photocopy of document "Stand & Stare" by Jeremy Rees [Director, The Arnolfini]

ST/1/3/5
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(c.1980s) 20 June 1985

Part of Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail Archive

Discusses the Stand and Stare project to date and the collaboration between The Arnolfini and the Forestry Commission. Also mentions forthcoming gallery exhibition exploring the forest in contemporary art

Photocopy of draft "Edward Thomas at War" by Jean Moorcroft Wilson

DP/JC/1/6/10
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2014

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes postcard from Jean to Jeff Cooper

Photocopy of E O Hoppé photograph of Edward Thomas

DP/RW/1/4/13
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(c.1970s)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in "The Bookman" special Christmas number 1917. With ink annotation

Photocopy of Edward Thomas Memorial Fund accounts year ending 31 December 1937

DP/RW/3/5
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(c.1960s)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

£245 10s 4d received in subscriptions. Compiled by Gibson, Harris, Prince & Co. Chartered Accountants

Photocopy of entry for Wilfrid Wilson Gibson in the Dictionary of National Biography 1961 - 1970

DP/VD/55/5
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(c.1990s) c.1970s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

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

DP/FDP/1/2
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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

Photocopy of excerpt from "A Relation of Elected Friends"

DP/MT/1/10/13
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(c.1980s) c.1980s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Author unknown. Discusses the relationship between Edward and Helen Thomas with quotations from Robert Frost. Includes a note from Myfanwy Thomas "Can't imagine where this came from or who sent it. Someone who's really 'got it in for Mother'. What a cheap & nasty piece'

Photocopy of excerpt from booklet "Our Allies and Enemies" edited by Herbert Strang

DP/MT/1/3/6
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(c.1990s) c.1915

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Discusses the combatant countries and their resources during the First World War

Photocopy of excerpt from "Drawn from Life: A Memoir" by Robert Medley

DP/MT/1/10/26
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(c.1980s) 1983

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Mentions "The Poems of Edward Eastaway (Edward Thomas) published by Selwyn and Blount in 1917"

Photocopy of excerpt from "Frost: A Literary Life Reconsidered" by William H Pritchard

DP/MT/1/10/29
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(c.1980s) 1984

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photocopy of extract "Edward Thomas" from publication "New Paths on Helicon" by Sir Henry Newbolt

DP/MT/1/4/2
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(c.1990s) 1927

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Annotated

Photocopy of extract from "Ouida" by Max Beerbohm

DP/MT/1/7/3
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(c.1980s) c.1950s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

With annotations by Myfanwy Thomas

Photocopy of extract from The Shell Bird Book discussing Edward Thomas

DP/MT/1/8/5
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(c.1980s) c.1966

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photocopy of "Forestry Commission/ Arnolfini/ Elephant Trust background"

ST/1/1/1
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(c.1999) 18 August 1984

Part of Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail Archive

Possibly written by Martin Orrom. Describes the foundation of the Sculpture Trail

Photocopy of handwritten extracts from "Gwili" by E Cefin Jones

DP/MT/1/10/3
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(c.1980s) c.1980s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Describes references to tea at Gwili Cottage. Includes photocopy of Welsh language article "Cofio Edward Thomas" by Ioan Mai Evans

Photocopy of handwritten sheet music "The Bridge" by Edward Thomas

DP/ET/8/8
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c.1980s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Music possibly by Edward Eastaway Thomas

Photocopy of handwritten sheet music "The Threshold of the New" by Mary Chandler

DP/ET/8/10
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(c.1980s), 9 March 1985

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

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 illustration of J C Martin showing various St Mary's College student activities

D539/1
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(c.2001) Summer 1941

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Photocopy of L Fletcher's "The Teacher's Press in Britain 1802 - 1888" pages 26 - 27 mentioning "Papers for the Schoolmaster" publication edited by C H Bromby, Principal of Cheltenham Training College 1847 - 1864

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Published Leeds, 1978

Includes letter from Trevor Hearl mentioning further references to the colleges in an article by Michael V Boyd "The Church of England Colleges 1890 - 1944", Old Chelt W H Ashley (c.1860s), a school inspector in Mauritius possibly A Toussaint editor of "Dictionary of Mauritius Biography" 1944, and another Old Chelt Gilbert A Christian who published "English Education from Within" in 1922, an account of College life under Reverend Chamney "not a prominent figure in the educational world"

Hearl, Trevor William

Photocopy of letter from A J Payne to Alan Martin regarding an installation of a plaque to Edward Thomas at 14 Lansdowne Gardens, London

DP/ET/4/4/1
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(c.1979) 9 July 1979

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photocopy of letter from Barbara Davis to the Clerk of Dymock Parish Council regarding a donation made to support the Dymock Parochial Church Council's Dymock Poets Exhibition

DP/BD/3/18
Item
7 December 2007

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes "St Mary's Dymock 2008 Budget"

Photocopy of letter from Cecil Ballantine, Senior Tutor in English, to Peter Graham regarding winning second prize in a poetry competition

D459/4
Item
(1989) c.1983

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Includes a photocopy of the poem "Showers and solitude"

Photocopy of letter from Edward Eastaway Thomas to Patrick Garland

DP/ETF/3/16/1
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(c.1994) 30 December 1994

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Discusses Edward Thomas's love of Sussex and his relationship with James Guthrie and The Pear Tree Press. Includes photocopy of passage "Edward Thomas: The Friend and The Artist" from "To The Memory of Edward Thomas" by James Gutherie, published 1937; and poem "An Old Sussex Manor", possibly by Charles Kennett Burrow

Photocopy of letter from Edward Thomas to "My dear friend"

DP/RW/1/1/6
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(c.1960s) 24 December 1916

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

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"

DP/RW/1/1/7
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(c.1960s) 22 March 1917

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

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

Photocopy of letter from Ernest Holloway of The Reading Phoenix Choir to Richard Emeny inviting members of the Edward Thomas Fellowship to a choir performance of "Night Poems" by Edward Thomas

DP/ET/4/1/2
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(c.1991) 7 April 1991

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photocopy of letter from Forest of Dean District Council to Mr D J Oldham of The Gallows, Ryton, regarding the erection of a Vodaphone mast at Callow Farm, Ryton

DP/BD/3/8
Item
(c.2004) September 2004

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes photocopy of letter of concern from Barbara Davis; Photocopies of plans of the proposed mast; maps of the area, information on the Poets' Path and public rights of way and information on the Malvern Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

Photocopy of letter from J H Gray, Vicar of Douglas, offering a post to Miss Browne, student at Cheltenham Training College

D96/2
Item
(c.1975) 5 November 1855

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

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