Special Collections and Archives

"Birmingham Repertory Theatre: The Playhouse and the Man" by Thomas C Kemp

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1943

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Cornish Brothers Limited, Birmingham

"Robert E Lee: a play in nine scenes" by John Drinkwater

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1948

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Sidgwick & Jackson, London

"Oliver Cromwell: a play" by John Drinkwater

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1954

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Sidgwick & Jackson Limited, London

"John Masefield, O. M.: The Queen's Poet Laureate: A Bibliography and Eighty-First Birthday Tribute" by Geoffrey Handley-Taylor

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1960

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by The Cranbrook Tower Press, London. Signed limited edition copy number 100A of 999. Inscribed "May 17th 1966: Daisy Kennedy Drinkwater: (and, later on, for Tanya Moiseiwitch Krish)"

Handmade Shakespeare book cabinet by John Drinkwater

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c.1920s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Handmade bookcase housing the following Shakespeare pocket editions:

A Midsummer Night's Dream
As You Like It
Coriolanus
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
King John
King Henry IV Part II
King Henry V
King Lear
King Richard II
King Richard III
Macbeth
Measure for Measure
Much Ado About Nothing
Shakespeare's Hamlet Prince of Denmark
Shakespeare's Macbeth
Shakespeare's Pericles
Shakespeare's Timon of Athens
The Merchant of Venice
The Tempest
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Venus and Adonis

Volumes inscribed "Tanya from Big John July 1928" and "Tanya from John D 1931". Includes handwritten label "John Drinkwater made this bookcase of is Shakespeare collection when in Birmingham (or Nottingham) & gave it to Tanya Moiseiwitsch" and small image of a pencil drawing of Drinkwater's profile

"The Augustan Books of Modern Poetry" box edited by Edward Thompson and Humbert Wolfe

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c.1920s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Velvet-lined box containing the following pamphlets published by Ernest Benn Limited, London:

Matthew Arnold
Hilaire Belloc
Emily Brontë
Rupert Brooke
Robert Burns
G K Chesterton
W H Davies
Walter de la Mare
John Donne
Wilfrid Gibson
Alice Meynell
Robert Louis Stevenson
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Alfred, Lorn Tennyson
Edward Thomas
Francis Thompson
W B Yeats

Woodcut print of a tiger by Maxwell Armfield

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1913

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Signed in pencil "Maxwell Armfield"

Handwritten poem "The Heresy of an Elder or Not Believing in Fairies" by John Drinkwater

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13 November 1923

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Signed and dated. Written in Hungerford

Handwritten poems E[?] and "The Little Paradise" by John Drinkwater

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3-4 June 1932

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Written at Brampton. Signed and annotated "For Tanya"

Handwritten poem "The Fool" by John Drinkwater

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1932

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

With crossings-out and reworkings. Annotated "Brampton Summer 1932" and "For Tanya for Christmas 1932 from John Drinkwater: Highgate"

Handwritten poem "An Englishman's Song" by John Drinkwater

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14 June 1932

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Signed and annotated "For Tanya: John D: Finished at Brampton 14.vi.32"

Handwritten stanza of poetry written by John Drinkwater on the back of a Lords cricket card

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c.1935

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Written in pencil. Card for an England versus South Africa cricket match on 29 June 1935

Reads "Thus I survey the varied scene, And meditate upon the time, When proud Elizabeth was queen, and Shakespeare made his golden rhyme"

"Lascelles Abercrombie and the Origin of the Poet's Colony at Dymock" by Jeff Cooper

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28 April 1997

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Dymock Poets Archive & Study Centre Occasional Paper 3

Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education

"A Life Kept Always Young: An Introduction to Eleanor Farjeon" by Anne Harvey

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18 January 1999

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Dymock Poets Archive & Study Centre Occasional Paper 7

Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education

Leaflet for "The Dymock Poets Archive & Study Centre"

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c.1995

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Article "The Sound of Trees" published in a Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education magazine

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c.1995

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Refers to the photographs taken by Senior Lecturer Trudie Ballantyne and inspired by Dymock

Article "Dymock and friends" in "Newslink: The Alumni Magazine of Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education"

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Spring 1995

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Volume 2 Number 1

Newspaper article "Farewell to Adelstrop" written "from a correspondent"

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5 April 1963

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Times at the time of Dr Beeching's railway cuts

Newspaper article "A Literary Pilgrimage from Waterloo" written "from a correspondent"

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29 December 1964

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Times. Recounts a journey from Waterloo to Salisbury travelling through Edward Thomas and Richard Jefferies country.

Published letter from Edward Eastaway Thomas on the death of Lord Chuter-Ede

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19 November 1965

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the [?] Advertiser

Article "Edward Thomas: A Memorial Tribute"

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c.1971

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Author and publication unknown. Includes description of the ceremony unveiling the memorial window at Eastbury church and insights into the relationship between Helen and Edward Thomas. Includes handwritten note by Edward Eastaway Thomas

Photocopy of letter from Myfanwy Thomas published in the Radio Times

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(c.1980s) 18 March 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Discusses discrepancy over the definition of Edward Thomas as a "Georgian" poet. Includes handwritten paragraph [crossed out] on reverse by Edward Eastaway Thomas

Photocopy of published letter "Edward Thomas" by Myfanwy Thomas

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(c.1992) April 1992

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the Book Collector. Refers to an earlier article by Kevin Nudd and clarification of the circumstances surrounding her father's death

Newspaper article featuring obituary of John Adlard, written by Anne Harvey

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c. January 1993

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication unknown

Article "An O.G. at the Cutting Edge of Science" by Edward Eastaway Thomas and Austen Williams

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undated

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Biographical article on Maurice Henry Lecorney Pryce, Royal Grammar School Guilford pupil 1929

Article "A Guildfordian at Bletchley Park" by Edward Eastaway Thomas

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undated

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Edward Eastaway Thomas's account of his time at Bletchley Park

Edward Thomas Fellowship committee meeting minutes

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22 May 1993

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Edward Thomas Fellowship committee meeting minutes

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20 November 1993

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Edward Thomas Fellowship committee meeting minutes

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17 September 1994

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Edward Thomas Fellowship committee meeting minutes

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10 June c.1995

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photocopy of article "The Edward Thomas Birthday Walk" by Edward Eastaway Thomas

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(c.1984)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photocopy and typescript of article published in This England. Includes black and white photograph of the design of two Edward Thomas memorial windows at Steep Church and document "Edward Thomas" annotated "Surrey University (Morag Morris) November 1984" by Edward Eastaway Thomas

Information for The Edward Thomas Autumn Walk, Isle of Wight

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3 October 1993

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes details of the route

Information for the Edward Thomas Birthday Walk 1994

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6 March 1994

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes information on the route

Information on the Edward Thomas Autumn Walk, Gregynog 1994

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16-18 September 1994

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes information on the programme, route and poems "Roads", "The Lofty Sky", "Over the Hills" and "The Bridge"

Information on the 23rd Edward Thomas Birthday Walk, Steep to Selbourne 1995

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11 February and 5 March 1995

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes information on the route. Also attached is an accompanying note from Colin[?] and Chris, to Edward and Ruth 11 February 1995

The Edward Thomas Fellowship membership leaflet

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c. September 1980

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

The Edward Thomas Fellowship membership leaflet

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c. 1985

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

The Edward Thomas Fellowship press release "Hampshire Artist's Tribute to Edward Thomas 50th Anniversary of the Memorial Stone"

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21 September 1987

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

50th anniversary gathering of the unveiling of a memorial stone to Edward Thomas on the Shoulder of Mutton, 2 October 1937. Includes details of a painting of the landscape painted by Mervyn Goode titled "Summer Evening Landscape from the Poet's Stone" and the unveiling of a plaque to Rowland and Cherry Watson

Information for event "A Tribute to Poets of the First World War" in the Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster Abbey