Special Collections and Archives

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 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 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 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
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7 December 2007

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes "St Mary's Dymock 2008 Budget"

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

DP/ET/1/79
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undated

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

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

Photocopy of article "Worth a Detour" by James Runcie

DP/MT/1/10/9
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(c.1980s) c.1980s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in Country Living. Discusses Adlestrop and Edward Thomas

Photocopy of article "Winter by the Sea" by Janet S Aldis

DP/MT/1/3/5
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(c.1990s) 1914

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Blue Book for Girls. The Aldises were family friends of the Thomases

Photocopy of article "Wiltshire walks" by G B Berry

DP/MT/1/7/6
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(c.1970s) c.1950s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication unknown. Describes unveiling of the plaque to Edward Thomas at 61 Shelgate Road, Battersea and Edward Thomas in Wiltshire

Photocopy of article "Why Barbara is well versed on the daffodils of Dymock" by Bob Smyth

DP/BD/1/22
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(c.1990s)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

From "Forest of Dean and Wye Valley Review"

Photocopy of article "Whose woods these are I think I know" by P J Kavanagh

DP/BD/1/33
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(c.1994) 5 March 1994

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

From "The Spectator"

Photocopy of article "Where every view delights" on Ledbury

DP/BD/1/15
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(c.1990s) 25 March 1988

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

From "Ledbury Reporter"

Photocopy of article "Walk of the Month: The Meadows and the Muse" by Christopher Somerville

DP/BD/10/1/5
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(c.1993) 3 April 1993

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the Weekend Telegraph. Discusses the Poets Path II around Dymock and the history of the Dymock Poets

Photocopy of article "Two of the Newest Poets" by Robert Shafer

DP/VD/55/2
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(c.1990s) 1914

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in "Atlantic Monthly". Discusses W W Gibson and John Masefield, among other English poets

Photocopy of article "Tributes to wife and poet"

DP/ETF/1/5/7
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(c.1970s)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

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

Photocopy of article "Tragedy of One of the Millions: Soldier who died on The Somme"