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Details of the 45 lots of John Haines material sold at Bonhams on 20 June 2018

DP/VD/57/4
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2018

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Full catalogue entries with images. Hard-copies include pencil annotations with the figures each lot sold for

Letter from Robert Frost to John Haines

DP/VD/57/3
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22 September 1914

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

Postcard from Robert Frost to John Haines

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1 July 1914

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Note to confirm Frost expects Haines on Thursday morning.

Pencil annotation "3"

Letter from Robert Frost to John Haines

DP/VD/57/1
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15 June 1914

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

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

Photocopy of newspaper article "Land of singing waters" by James Black

DP/VD/55/8
Item
(c.2005) 2005

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the "Daily Mail". Discusses Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

Typed bibliography of the works by and criticism of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson compiled by Roger Hogg

DP/VD/55/7
Item
1992

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes photocopy of letter from Roger Hogg to John Chirgwin regarding the bibliography, 6 July 1992

Photocopy of a bibliography of the works of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson from an unknown publication

DP/VD/55/6
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(c.1990s) c.1970s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

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

Photocopies of letters written the the Hexham Courant discussing the location of W W Gibson's birthplace and proposed commemorative plaque

DP/VD/55/4
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(c.1990s) c.1950s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photocopy of article "Recent English Poetry" by Martin D Armstrong

DP/VD/55/3
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(c.1990s) c.1915

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in "Fortnightly Review". Discusses W W Gibson, W H Davies, Lascelles Abercrombie and John Masefield

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

"The Poetry Review"

DP/VD/55/1
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January 1912

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 "'...But once I lived in Gloucestershire'" by Richard Wheeler

DP/VD/52/9
Item
June 2003

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Countryman. Discusses the poets in Dymock

Welcome to Dymock leaflet

DP/VD/52/8
Item
2002

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

3rd edition. Text by Reverend R Legg and artwork by Barbara Davis

Article "Leadon role in poetry movement" by Gordon Ottewell

DP/VD/52/7
Item
c.2000

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the Gloucestershire Echo

Leaflet and map of Walks in Dymock Woods

DP/VD/52/6
Item
1993

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Windcross Public Paths Project

Leaflet and map of the Poets' Path II walk

DP/VD/52/5
Item
1990

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Windcross Public Paths Group

Sheet with printed poems "Adlestrop", "The Sun Used to Shine" and "Words" and passage by Edward Thomas describing walking the Gloucestershire landscape with Robert Frost and his decision to go to war

DP/VD/52/4
Item
c.1990s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Leaflet and map of the Daffodil Way walk

DP/VD/52/3
Item
1988

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Prepared by the Windcross Public Paths Project

Article "Laughter in a golden room..." by Bob Collins

DP/VD/52/2
Item
Autumn 1984

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Countryman. Discusses the poets in Dymock

Article "John Drinkwater: The office clerk who left his desk to become a poet of the Midland scene" by Gladys E Carr

DP/VD/52/1
Item
Autumn 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in This England

Photocopy of article "The Castle of Carbonek, "Meet for All Adventurers and All Dreams": Pennard Castle, Edward Thomas, and Swansea" by Brian Hicks

DP/VD/39/2
Item
2009

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Journal of the Gower Society

Coursework study "Edward Thomas: Poet" by Sophie Milner, great great granddaughter of Edward Thomas

DP/VD/39/1
Item
2009

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Details Thomas's life, poetry and contemporaries. With images

Handwritten stanza of poetry written by John Drinkwater on the back of a Lords cricket card

DP/TM/2/7
Item
c.1935

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Written in pencil. Card for an England versus South Africa cricket match on 29 June 1935

Reads "Thus I survey the varied scene, And meditate upon the time, When proud Elizabeth was queen, and Shakespeare made his golden rhyme"

Handwritten poem "An Englishman's Song" by John Drinkwater

DP/TM/2/6
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14 June 1932

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Signed and annotated "For Tanya: John D: Finished at Brampton 14.vi.32"

Handwritten poem "The Fool" by John Drinkwater

DP/TM/2/5
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1932

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

With crossings-out and reworkings. Annotated "Brampton Summer 1932" and "For Tanya for Christmas 1932 from John Drinkwater: Highgate"

Handwritten poems E[?] and "The Little Paradise" by John Drinkwater

DP/TM/2/4
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3-4 June 1932

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Written at Brampton. Signed and annotated "For Tanya"

Photograph of cast and associates for a production of "Bird in Hand" by John Drinkwater

DP/TM/2/3
Item
1927

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

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

Handwritten poem "The Heresy of an Elder or Not Believing in Fairies" by John Drinkwater

DP/TM/2/2
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13 November 1923

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Signed and dated. Written in Hungerford

Woodcut print of a tiger by Maxwell Armfield

DP/TM/2/1
Item
1913

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Signed in pencil "Maxwell Armfield"

"Patriotism in Literature" by John Drinkwater

DP/TM/1/9
Item
1924

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Williams and Norgate, London. Inscribed "Tanya from John Drinkwater August 1932"

"Kenilworth" by Sir Walter Scott

DP/TM/1/8
Item
1923

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Macmillan and Company Limited, London. Inscribed "Tanya with much love from Big John: Christmas 1926 Wallington"

"One-Act Plays for Secondary Schools" edited by James Plaisted Webber and Hanson Hart Webster

DP/TM/1/7
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1923

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Pencil inscription "Tanya Moiseiwitsch"

Handmade Shakespeare book cabinet by John Drinkwater

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c.1920s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Handmade bookcase housing the following Shakespeare pocket editions:

A Midsummer Night's Dream
As You Like It
Coriolanus
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
King John
King Henry IV Part II
King Henry V
King Lear
King Richard II
King Richard III
Macbeth
Measure for Measure
Much Ado About Nothing
Shakespeare's Hamlet Prince of Denmark
Shakespeare's Macbeth
Shakespeare's Pericles
Shakespeare's Timon of Athens
The Merchant of Venice
The Tempest
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Venus and Adonis

Volumes inscribed "Tanya from Big John July 1928" and "Tanya from John D 1931". Includes handwritten label "John Drinkwater made this bookcase of is Shakespeare collection when in Birmingham (or Nottingham) & gave it to Tanya Moiseiwitsch" and small image of a pencil drawing of Drinkwater's profile

"The Augustan Books of Modern Poetry" box edited by Edward Thompson and Humbert Wolfe

DP/TM/1/5
Item
c.1920s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Velvet-lined box containing the following pamphlets published by Ernest Benn Limited, London:

Matthew Arnold
Hilaire Belloc
Emily Brontë
Rupert Brooke
Robert Burns
G K Chesterton
W H Davies
Walter de la Mare
John Donne
Wilfrid Gibson
Alice Meynell
Robert Louis Stevenson
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Alfred, Lorn Tennyson
Edward Thomas
Francis Thompson
W B Yeats

"Letters of John Keats to his Family and Friends" edited by Sidney Colvin

DP/TM/1/4
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1918

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Macmillan and Company Limited, London. Inscribed "John Drinkwater for Tanya 4.X.33"

"1914 and Other Poems" by Rupert Brooke

DP/TM/1/3
Item
1916

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Sidgwick & Jackson Limited, London

"John Masefield, O. M.: The Queen's Poet Laureate: A Bibliography and Eighty-First Birthday Tribute" by Geoffrey Handley-Taylor

DP/TM/1/26
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1960

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by The Cranbrook Tower Press, London. Signed limited edition copy number 100A of 999. Inscribed "May 17th 1966: Daisy Kennedy Drinkwater: (and, later on, for Tanya Moiseiwitch Krish)"

"Oliver Cromwell: a play" by John Drinkwater

DP/TM/1/25
Item
1954

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Sidgwick & Jackson Limited, London

"Robert E Lee: a play in nine scenes" by John Drinkwater

DP/TM/1/24
Item
1948

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Sidgwick & Jackson, London

"Birmingham Repertory Theatre: The Playhouse and the Man" by Thomas C Kemp

DP/TM/1/23
Item
1943

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Cornish Brothers Limited, Birmingham

"Behold, This Dreamer" by Walter de la Mare

DP/TM/1/22
Item
1939

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Faber and Faber, London. Inscribed "Tatty & Felix from John"

"This Troubled World" by John Drinkwater

DP/TM/1/21
Item
1933

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Columbia University Press, New York. Inscribed "Tanya with love from John Drinkwater: Highgate Easter 1933"

"Summer Harvest: Poems 1924-1933" by John Drinkwater

DP/TM/1/20
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1933

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Sidgwick and Jackson Limited, London. Inscribed "To Tanya with love from John Drinkwater November 1933"

"Shakespeare's Songs" by William Shakespeare

DP/TM/1/2
Item
1915

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by The Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford upon Avon. Limited edition copy 199 of 500. Inscribed "Tanya from John Drinkwater 1934"

"The Mabinogion" translated by Charlotte Guest

DP/TM/1/19
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1932

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by J M Dent and Sons Limited, London. Inscribed "Daisy darling from John her Jonathan [?] September 1932"

"Poetry and Dogma" by John Drinkwater

DP/TM/1/18
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1931

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

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"

"The Poems of Sidney Godolphin" edited by William Dighton

DP/TM/1/17
Item
1931

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by The Clarendon Press, Oxford. Inscribed "Tanya from John Drinkwater Nov 1934"

"The Riddle and Other Stories" by Walter de la Mare

DP/TM/1/16
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1928

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Faber and Faber, London. Inscribed "Tanya Moiseiwitch love from John"

"The Week-End Book" edited by Vera Mendel, Francis Meynell and John Goss

DP/TM/1/15
Item
1931

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"

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