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Letters from Various Sources

Photocopies of letters and cards from friends of Haines. They include thank you letters from children, expressions of sympathy on the death of his father and comments on contemporary literature. Authors include Marion M Scott, C W B Marsh, Madge Balfour, Lilian Gale, Ethel Priday, Dot Whitley and C C Haines

Also includes a letter to Alice from "Papa" dated 1864

Photographs of people and places associated with Laurie Lee

Photographs annotated on reverse
Photograph of the exterior of Laurie Lee's birthplace in Uplands, Stroud
Photograph of the exterior of the London flat where Laurie Lee lived and wrote for 35 years
Photograph of the memorial to Laurie Lee "El Oranescritor" that stands on the sea front at Almuñécar, Spain
Photograph of Barbara Hooper interviewing Señor Manuel Mateos, who knew Laurie Lee in 1935, in Almuñécar, Spain
Photograph of mounted photograph of Laurie Lee in Africa c.1948 with inscription "Jan love from Laurie (The Desert Fox) Sahara"

Photographer unknown

Sheet music relating to Edward Thomas

Programme and sheet music for a concert "Music inspired by the poetry of Edward Thomas" at The Royal College of Music on 24 April 1999, hosted by The Edward Thomas Fellowship. Music includes:
"Dreams of Men: Four Songs for high voice, oboe and piano" by Kenneth V Jones
"The Source" by Edward Thomas and Michael Tippett
"Gone, Gone Again" by Edward Thomas
"Tall Nettles" by Edward Thomas
"Snow" by Edward Thomas and John Jeffreys [pencil annotation]
"Snow" by Edward Thomas and Ivor Gurney
"Prelude in D flat" by Ivor Gurney
"The Night Songs of Edward Thomas" by Michael Hurd
"Out in the Dark" by Edward Thomas and Edmund Rubbra
"Two Poems of Edward Thomas for S A T B Choir" by Howard Skempton. Commissioned by the Council for the Protection of Rural England in celebration of their 70th anniversary
"World Without End" by Trevor Hold. For the Crispian Trio in memory of Helen and Edward Thomas
"Early One Morning" by Trevor Hold
"Lights Out" by Ivor Gurney

Also includes "additional music found in the archives of Edward Eastaway Thomas after his death":
"The Cherry Trees" by Edward Thomas and Ivor Gurney
"The Bridge" by Edward Thomas and Edward Eastaway Thomas
"The Threshold of the New" by Mary Chandler
"The Trumpet" by Edward Thomas and Owen Mase
"The Huckster" by Edward Thomas and William Garnett
"Into the Unknown" by Edward Thomas and P W Duffy

Documents relating to the Laurence Whistler window dedicated to Edward and Helen Thomas at Eastbury

Letter from Myfanwy Thomas to Mr Batty regarding thanking him for his contribution to the window and inquiring if he is related to Mr Trevor Batty, who owned Ashford Chase at Steep before Lord Horder, 20 November 1969
Letter from Myfanwy Thomas to Mr Batty recounting the dedication of the memorial window at Eastbury, 7 November 1971
Information letter, circular and pamphlet with loose photograph of the memorial window
Article "Tribute to a Poet: The Edward Thomas Window at Eastbury" by Noel Carrington published in County Life October 1971

Letter from Edward Thomas to C F Cazenove

Previously unpublished letter from Thomas to his literary agent C F Cazenove. Describes his current works and confides his dislike for commissioned "hack work". The letter ends that "some sort of end is pretty well up above the horizon". Includes typed transcription

Unpublished according to http://www.edward-thomas-fellowship.org.uk/downloads/Edward-Thomas-Letters-Index.pdf

Two audio cassette recordings of "Kings and Queens" and "A Nursery in the Nineties" by Eleanor and Herbert Farjeon

Kings and Queens was produced for the 50th anniversary of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II with contribution by Anne Harvey. Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 1 June 2003

A Nursery in the Nineties is the dramatised memoir of Eleanor Farjeon. Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour 26-30 May 2003. Contains episodes 1 - 3 of 5

Letters and postcards from Edward Eastaway Thomas

Includes essay "The Edward Thomas Birthday Walk" c.1982; copy of article "Edward Thomas & Battersea: Some Connections" published in The Wandsworth Historian December 1978; copy of Edward Thomas book reviews published in The Wandsworth Historian September 1979; letter accompanying correspondence between Rowland Watson and Julian Thomas between 1936 - 1948 given to Edward by Cherry Watson [now missing]; final letter from Edward's wife Ruth Dyson

Letter from Edward Thomas to Eleanor Farjeon

Letter contained in book "The Prose of Edward Thomas" selected by Roland Gant. Volume inscribed "To dearest Joan from Nellie Christmas 1954" [Eleanor Farjeon's handwriting]

Letter published in "The Last Four Years" by Eleanor Farjeon, page 101. Responds to news that Eleanor's brother Herbert [Bertie] is to be married to Joan Thornycroft daughter of Sir Hamo Thornycroft RA, sculptor. Joan was also, via her aunt Theresa Sassoon née Thornycroft, first cousin to Siegfried Sassoon

Photograph album of sites associated with Edward Thomas, compiled by Anthony Berridge

Photographs taken by Anthony Berridge between 1979-1983 of sites related to Edward Thomas. Identical album held in the Edward Thomas Collection at Cardiff University.
Includes loose photographs [some copyrighted images of Edward Thomas], list of photographs in album, "The Wandsworth Historian" with article on Edward Thomas December 1978 and "Common News: A Newspaper sponsored by Churches in South Battersea" February 1979

Also includes letter from Anthony Berridge to Myfanwy Thomas, 14 April 2000, and explanatory note from Richard Emeny of The Edward Thomas Fellowship, July 2003

Photographic prints of the May Hill and Dymock area by Trudie Ballantyne

13 prints framed, 4 unframed

Landscape orientation, taken through a soft photographic filter. Frames 535mm x 535mm

Footpath, Dymock [two copies, framed]
Wild Daffodils, Ryton Woods [framed]
The Tunnels Mouth, Dymock [framed]
Morning Mist, May Hill [two copies, framed]
Ploughed Field, Ryton [framed]
Hail Storm over the Forest of Dean from May Hill [framed]
May Hill [unframed]
Marsh Marigold, Greenways Cross [framed]
Apple Blossom, Leddington [unframed]
Harts Tongue Fern [unframed]
Wild Garlic [framed]
Half-pipe style pathway through a dense forest [framed]
Yew & Ivy, Dymock Church [framed]
Tree Trunk [unframed]
Perry Tree, Eldersfield [framed]

Photocopy of receipt for "New Numbers"

Photocopy of an original receipt for the periodical New Numbers for 7s 6d from Norman S Macdonnell. Handwritten by Catherine Abercrombie. Accompanied by a postcard from Lorna Beckett, later Chair of the Rupert Brooke Society

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