Special Collections and Archives

Rowland Watson Series

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Series
1842, 1900-1985

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Watson, Rowland

Edward Thomas

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Subseries
1900-1970

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Letters and Poetry

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1908 - (c.1960s) 1917

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Letter from Edward Thomas to Mr Wright

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11 March 1908

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Original letter written by Edward Thomas regarding notes on "Nature War London". Describes "beautiful" stones on Dunwich beach and how he wishes he was a geologist so he could identify them. Invites Wright to walk with him at the weekend. Includes pencil annotation

Letter from Edward Thomas to Eleanor Farjeon

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26 September 1914

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Original letter written by Edward Thomas regarding a visit by Eleanor Farjeon. With original envelope and pencil annotation

Handwritten poems by Edward Thomas "The Green Roads", "It Was Upon" and "Women He Liked"

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c.1915

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Handwritten by Edward Thomas. With pencil annotations

Handwritten poem "How at Once"

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c.1915

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Handwritten by Edward Thomas on "Y.M.C.A. H.M. Forces on Active Service" headed paper. With pencil annotation

Typescript letters from Edward Thomas to "Dad" David Uzzell

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(c.1950s) 25 April 1897 - 7 December 1916

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Typescript of original letters. With ink annotation

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

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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"

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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

Miscellaneous

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File
c.1960s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Copy of blueprint for the Edward Thomas memorial plaque at Berryfield Cottage

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c.1960s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Reads "Here lived Edward Thomas: Poet Born 1878 Died 1917"

Photocopied list of Edward Thomas letters deposited at Battersea Library by Rowland Watson

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(c.1960s)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

With ink annotation

Typescript of radio talk "Edward Thomas" by Clifford Dyment

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10 September 1948

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

With pencil annotation

Typescripts of radio talk "Edward Thomas (1878-1917)" by Thomas Walton

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c.1967

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

One typescript in English and another in French produced by BBC French Language Services and broadcast on 10 and 11 April 1967

Typescript of radio talk "Edward Thomas: Poet" by Bernard Price

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6 August 1967

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Newspaper Cuttings

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1917-1970

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Death notice for Edward Thomas

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23 April 1917

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Times. Listed under his full name "Second Lieutenant P. E. Thomas"

Three mounted newspaper cuttings advertising radio programmes on Edward Thomas

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1960, 1966

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Advertising "Edward Thomas" by Frank Baker on 16 March 1960, "... A Poet Still" by Frank Baker on 16 March 1966 and "The Poet and Nature" by Harry Coombes on 2 April 1966

Newspaper article "From Hack to War Poet" by Anthony Powell

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5 March 1970

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication unknown. Review of "Edward Thomas: a Critical Biography" by William Cooke. With ink annotation

Photocopy of newspaper article "Private Lives" by Peter Vansittart

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14 February 1970

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Spectator. Review of "Edward Thomas: A Critical Biography" by William Cooke

Photographs

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File
1900 - (c.1970s)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Studio photograph of Edward Thomas with son Merfyn as a baby by John T Williams

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1900

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Mounted photographs of locations in Steep associated with Edward Thomas

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1965

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes The Red House, "ancient damson trees" in the garden of The Red House, Yew Tree Cottage and The Cricketers Inn. With ink annotations

Photographer unknown

Photograph of pencil sketch of Edward Thomas by Ernest Henry Thomas

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c.1960s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Signed by his brother Ernest Henry Thomas, dated 2 August 1905

Photographer unknown

Photographs of Edward Thomas's grave at Agny War Cemetery, France

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c.1960s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photographer unknown

Photocopy of E O Hoppé photograph of Edward Thomas

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(c.1970s)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

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

Postcard with photograph of Bearsted annotated by Edward Thomas

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13 July 1903

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Edward Thomas has marked a cross on the postcard and written "The house under this cross, and behind the left hand horse is ours, almost hidden by two lime trees. With our love P E T". Sent to Thomas's friend G I MacAlister in Ottawa, Canada

Photographer unknown

Photograph of Edward Thomas and Merfyn standing outside Berryfield Cottage

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c.1906

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photographer unknown

Mounted studio photograph of Edward Thomas by Frederick H Evans

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Item
1907

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

With pencil and ink annotations, signed by the photographer

Mounted studio photograph of Edward Thomas by Emil Otto Hoppé

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1913

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

With pencil and ink annotations, signed by the photographer

Studio photograph of Edward Thomas

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1913

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

With pencil annotations

Photographer unknown

Photograph of Edward Thomas

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c.1914

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photographer unknown

Mounted photograph of the exterior of The Red House

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c.1930s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Edward Thomas lived here with his family 1909-1913

Photographer unknown

Mounted photograph of the exterior of Yew Tree Cottage

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c.1930s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Edward Thomas lived here with his family 1913-1916

Photographer unknown

Last Will and Testament

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File
c.1950s - (1963)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Printed copy of the wording of the will of Edward Thomas

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c.1950s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photocopy of official copy of the handwritten will of Edward Thomas

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(1963) 9 July 1915

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

From the Principal Probate Registry of the High Court of Justice

Official typescript detailing the registering of the will of Edward Thomas and the value of his estate

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c.1960s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

With pencil annotation

Memories of Edward Thomas

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1946-1967

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Memories of Edward Thomas letters

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29 October 1946 - 1 May 1967

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

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

Memories of Edward Thomas manuscript

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1952

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Typescript of manuscript of memories of Edward Thomas collected by Rowland Watson. Includes ink annotations

Edward Thomas Memorial at Steep

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c.1930s - (c.1960s)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Letters regarding the Edward Thomas Memorial on the Shoulder of Mutton, Steep

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5 March 1936 - 28 January 1941

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes letter from Ezra Pound against the memorial
Other letters from:
Wilfred E Baderley
Algernon Blackwood
P D Coleridge
T C Duncan Williams
Lord Horder
Galloway Kyle
Irene McArthur

Newspaper cuttings regarding the steep memorial and plaque at 61 Shelgate Road, Battersea

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File
4 April 1936 - 10 May 1949

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes letter written by John Haines regarding subscriptions to the Steep memorial published in the Gloucester Journal 4 April 1936, Features in The Times and Hampshire Observer reporting on memorial unveiling on the Shoulder of Mutton and at Berryfield Cottage with photograph, and a report in the News Chronicle on the unveiling of a plaque at 61 Shelgate Road, Battersea. Two articles mounted. With pencil annotations

Information leaflet "A Memorial to Edward Thomas" by the Edward Thomas Memorial Fund Executive Committee

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c.1930s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

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

Copy of blueprint for Edward Thomas memorial plaque on the Shoulder of Mutton

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c.1937

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Reads "This hillside is dedicated to the memory of Edward Thomas: Poet: Born in Lambeth 3rd March 1878, Killed in the Battle of Arras 9th April 1917. And I rose up and knew that I was tired and continued my journey"

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

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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

E H W Meyerstein

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1930-1968

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Edward Harry William Meyerstein (b.11 August 1889 d.12 September 1952) was an English writer and scholar

Execution of Meyerstein's will

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28 November 1952 - 21 May 1968

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

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

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