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Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Photocopy of letter from Edward Thomas to "My dear friend"
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"
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
Copy of blueprint for the Edward Thomas memorial plaque at Berryfield Cottage
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Reads "Here lived Edward Thomas: Poet Born 1878 Died 1917"
Death notice for Edward Thomas
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Published in The Times. Listed under his full name "Second Lieutenant P. E. Thomas"
Newspaper article "From Hack to War Poet" by Anthony Powell
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Publication unknown. Review of "Edward Thomas: a Critical Biography" by William Cooke. With ink annotation
Studio photograph of Edward Thomas with son Merfyn as a baby by John T Williams
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Photographs of Edward Thomas's grave at Agny War Cemetery, France
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Photographer unknown
Photocopy of official copy of the handwritten will of Edward Thomas
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
From the Principal Probate Registry of the High Court of Justice
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
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Refers to etchings, the poem "Calf Love", meetings with Alan Thomas [friend of Edward Thomas] and Helen Thomas, life since his wife died and his publications
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
One letter undated and one dated 1947 which should be 1967. Refers to copying letters from Jack Haines and Robert Frost, and sympathy on the death of Helen Thomas [d.1967]
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Eckert was a biographer of Edward Thomas and wrote to Watson about Thomas. Includes newspaper cuttings and an article Eckert wrote on James Guthrie and The Pear Tree Press. Includes pencil annotations
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Letters from Robert P Eckert's widow. Includes news of Eckert's death with a newspaper obituary from The Times from 11 November 1966, and discusses a home for his Edward Thomas collection, which is now at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Refers to book on Meyerstein
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Refers to Robert P Eckert's death and Meyerstein
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Regards BBC radio broadcast on Edward Thomas by Bernard Price. Includes newspaper cuttings and pencil annotations
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
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
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Includes booklet "Notes on Literature: Edward Thomas Selected Poems" by Roger O Iredale, typescripts of poems "To Edward Thomas" and "All Day it has Rained..." by Alun Lewis, and photocopied list of first editions for sale from Bertram Rota Limited, including "Horae Solitariae" by Edward Thomas
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Refers to visits, a memoir by Ellis Jenkins, Edward Thomas, letters between Eleanor Farjeon and Rowland Watson and an exhibition on Farjeon
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Typescript poems "Sunset on the Lake", "The Song of the Wind", "Souvenirs of Florence" attributed to Vernon Bartlett. Also includes a note by Rowland Watson stating he lived with Bartlett in Berlin from 1913-1914
"Poems of Men and Hours" by John Drinkwater
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Published by David Nutt, London, first edition. Inscribed "To Francis W Bedford from John Drinkwater Xmas 1911"
"Mary Barton and Other Tales" by Elizabeth Gaskell
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Published by John Murray, London. Inscribed "To Tanya on her fourteenth birthday these eight volumes of Mrs Gaskell with love and every good wish for many many birthdays to come, from her affectionate friend Big John: London December 3rd 1928"
"The Week-End Book" edited by Vera Mendel, Francis Meynell and John Goss
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Published by The Nonesuch Press, London. Inscribed "For darling Tanya with lots of love from Auntie Jeff Christmas 1930. One horrible omission me enrages - no mention of J D within these pages"
"The Riddle and Other Stories" by Walter de la Mare
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Published by Faber and Faber, London. Inscribed "Tanya Moiseiwitch love from John"
"The Poems of Sidney Godolphin" edited by William Dighton
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Published by The Clarendon Press, Oxford. Inscribed "Tanya from John Drinkwater Nov 1934"
"Poetry and Dogma" by John Drinkwater
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Published text of the Arthur Skemp Memorial Lecture at the University of Bristol delivered on 29 January 1931. Inscribed "Tanya from Big John Drinkwater 2.7.31"
"Behold, This Dreamer" by Walter de la Mare
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Published by Faber and Faber, London. Inscribed "Tatty & Felix from John"
"Birmingham Repertory Theatre: The Playhouse and the Man" by Thomas C Kemp
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Published by Cornish Brothers Limited, Birmingham
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Handwritten poem "The Heresy of an Elder or Not Believing in Fairies" by John Drinkwater
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Signed and dated. Written in Hungerford
Photograph of cast and associates for a production of "Bird in Hand" by John Drinkwater
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Featuring John Drinkwater, Peggy Ashcroft and Laurence Olivier. Taken outside the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in September 1927. Annotated with names on reverse although photograph has been cropped
Photographer unknown
Photocopy of article "Weekend tribute to poets"
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Published in The Citizen on 16 May 1995. Refers to weekend in Ledbury commemorating the 80th anniversary of Rupert Brooke's death. Those present included Lesley Lee Francis, Sean Street and Roger Hogg. Photocopied as a Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education press cuttings alert
Photocopies of letters to John Wilton Haines
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
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 Myfanwy Thomas
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Includes photograph of Helen Thomas and Miss Gwen John, President of the Swansea Literary Society, at a talk Helen gave to the Society in 1938, and a tribute to Anne Mallinson written by Myfanwy
Letter from Edward Thomas to Eleanor Farjeon
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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
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Edward Thomas quotation from "Thaw"
Photograph album of sites associated with Edward Thomas, compiled by Anthony Berridge
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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
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Photographer unknown
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Includes article "The Poetry of W W Gibson" by Maurice Browne and poems "The Stone" and "The Blind Rower" by W W Gibson
Photocopy of article "Two of the Newest Poets" by Robert Shafer
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Published in "Atlantic Monthly". Discusses W W Gibson and John Masefield, among other English poets
Photocopy of article "Recent English Poetry" by Martin D Armstrong
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Published in "Fortnightly Review". Discusses W W Gibson, W H Davies, Lascelles Abercrombie and John Masefield
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Photocopy of a bibliography of the works of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson from an unknown publication
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Letter from Robert Frost to John Haines
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Written at Little Iddens, Ledington, Ledbury. Frost arranges to meet Haines at Newent and wishes to discuss "one or two flowers you must tell me about".
Pencil annotation "1" on envelope
Letter from Robert Frost to John Haines
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Written at Ryton, Dymock. Frost arranges to visit Haines with his daughter Lesley. Includes Frost's unvarnished opinions of Lascelles Abercrombie, Rupert Brooke, John Drinkwater and Wilfrid Wilson Gibson alongside comments on the beginning of the First World War.
Pencil annotations by John Haines
"One More Brevity" Christmas greeting
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Annual Christmas greeting from Robert Frost. 4,501 copies printed by The Spiral Press, New York. Includes decorations by Philip Grushkin. This was one of the 375 copies printed with Frost's name as the sender. This poem was collected in "The Clearing" published 1962
"The Prophets Really Prophesy as Mystics, The Commentators Merely by Statistics" Christmas greeting
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Annual Christmas greeting from Robert Frost. 17,055 copies printed by The Spiral Press, New York. This was one of the 630 copies printed with Frost's name as the sender