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"From a Milkweed Pod" Christmas greeting

Annual Christmas greeting from Robert Frost. 5,076 copies printed by The Spiral Press, New York. Includes wood engravings by Thomas W Nason. This was one of the 425 copies printed with Frost's name as the sender. This poem was collected in "The Clearing" published 1962

Writing of Rowland Watson

Includes handwritten notes and typescripts "A Remarkable Pair: Bob Saunders and Geoffrey Williams", "Helen Thomas" written for The Times after her death, and "Lord Horder" written after his death

"Kitty Hawk" Christmas greeting

Annual Christmas greeting from Robert Frost. 7,000 copies printed by The Spiral Press, New York. Includes woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi. This was one of the 525 copies printed with Frost's name as the sender. The final version of this poem was collected in "The Clearing" published 1962

Letter from Dorothy Una Ratcliffe to Wilfrid Wilson Gibson describing a meeting with Hugh MacDiarmid

Written from The Percy Arms Hotel, Otterburn, Northumberland. Recalls a recent meeting with the Scottish poet, Hugh MacDiarmid where they discussed Gibson's work, for which he expressed a "great liking" and Roy Campbell's which he "loathes". Dorothy Una Ratcliffe was editor of the Northern Broadsheet and a friend of Wilfrid's who was later to deposit a large collection of his material in the Brotherton Library, Leeds

Notes on meeting Robert Frost

Full notes of Eleanor Farjeon's last meeting with Robert Frost during his return to England in 1957 which were used as the basis for her foreward to Frost's posthumously published volume of poetry, "You Come Too" [original title "Come With Me"]. Written in Farjeon's hand in the margin "Robert Frost - written rapidly an[d)] inconsecutively - must be arranged in its order - Try to describe his way of talking"

"Away!" Christmas greeting

Annual Christmas greeting from Robert Frost. 9,155 copies printed by The Spiral Press, New York. Includes wood engravings by Stefan Martin. This was one of the 660 copies printed with Frost's name as the sender. The poem was collected in "The Clearing" published 1962

"A-Wishing Well" Christmas greeting

Annual Christmas greeting from Robert Frost. 10,760 copies printed by The Spiral Press, New York. Includes wood engravings by Thomas W Nason. This was one of the 600 copies printed with Frost's name as the sender. The poem was collected in "The Clearing" published 1962

Newspaper article on the current popularity of poetry, focusing on the huge demand for John Betjeman's Collected Poems and the continued popularity of Rupert Brooke

Publication and author unknown. Comments on the assignment of copyright of Brooke's poems to de la Mare, Abercrombie and Gibson and the future intentions of the three holders of the Brooke estate Sir John Sheppard, Christopher Hassall and Sir Geoffrey Keynes

Theresa Whistler

Theresa Whistler was the second wife of artist Laurence Whistler, who designed the Edward Thomas memorial window at Eastbury. Refers to the "Memoirs of Edward Thomas" being compiled by Watson, and Meyerstein. Includes pencil annotations

Newspaper article "Wilfrid Gibson, people's poet"

Published in The Guardian, author unknown. Claims Krindlesyke to have been his masterpiece, after which "the force of his art seemed to have declined". It dismisses his inclusion as a Georgian Poet, claiming his methods and aims to be quite different to the other poets within the group. It mentions his association with Lascelles Abercrombie

Newspaper clipping "Wilfrid Gibson"

Letter published in the Yorkshire Post from B S Page, the Keeper of the Brotherton Collection, University of Leeds, commenting on the donation by D U McGrigor-Phillips [Dorothy Una Ratcliffe] of a collection of letters and poems by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

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