Special Collections and Archives

Thesis "Edward Thomas als Naturdichter" [Edward Thomas as Nature Writer] plus related correspondence

DP/ET/6/6
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3 April 1986 - c. December 1994

Includes correspondence with Edward Eastaway Thomas regarding the thesis and family news

Thesis "Edward Thomas: A Sense of Place: A study of the sense of place in the poetry of Edward Thomas (1878-1917)"

DP/ET/6/8
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1986, 18 December 1990

Submitted for the degree of English including English Medieval Studies at the University of Exeter. Includes two letters from Ann C Thomas (later Jones) to Edward Eastaway Thomas regarding her thesis and family news

Thesis

DP/JM/4
Subseries
c.1970s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Unpublished text with corrections of thesis "Georgian Poetry and the Land" by Jan Marsh. Incomplete, missing part of chapter two "Rural England" and all of chapter nine "The Poet and The Country". Includes typescript article titled "New Numbers" and correspondence with the Cambridge University Press with regards to publishing. Annotated.

Theresa Whistler

DP/RW/5/19
File
27 January 1960 - 22 July 1966

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

The Whittington Press publications catalogue

DP/ETF/7/5
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1978 - 1979

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes details of eight wood-engravings by Hellmuth Weissenborn for "The Diary of Edward Thomas", and "A Visit to William Morris" by Helen Thomas

The Whittington Press poster printed to mark the visit of the Edward Thomas Fellowship to Whittington on 22 October 1995

DP/ETF/7/35
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1995

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Features two wood engravings by Hellmuth Weissenborn used to illustrate "The Diary of Edward Thomas". Hellmuth Weissenborn fought during World War I in the same sector of trenches as Edward Thomas, but in the German lines

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

DP/TM/1/15
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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"

The Sunday Times

DP/MT/3/162
File
15 February 1999

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

"The scene of a rare flowering of poetic talent" article on "The Dymock Poets" by Sean Street

DP/BD/1/36
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3 November 1994

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

From "The Hereford Times"

"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 Prophets Really Prophesy as Mystics, The Commentators Merely by Statistics" Christmas greeting

DP/ET/5/3/10
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1962

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

"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

"The Poems of Sidney Godolphin" edited by William Dighton

DP/TM/1/17
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1931

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

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

"The overwhelming tale of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances" article by Sue Vickers

DP/BD/1/56
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28 January 2011

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

From "Malvern Gazzette and Ledbury Reporter"

The Orchard, Grantchester, Centenary Year 1897 - 1997

DP/BD/11/9
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1997

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Rupert Brooke lodged at Orchard House in 1909 before moving next door to The Old Vicarage

"The New Numbers Poets and the Chicago Little Theatre" by Lesley Lee Francis

DP/A/3/8
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2000

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Dymock Poets Archive & Study Centre Occasional Paper 8

Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education

"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"

"The Listener" publication

DP/BD/1/7
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29 July 1976

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes article "The idea of the daffodil fields" by Geoffrey Grigson

The Edward Thomas Fellowship press release "Hampshire Artist's Tribute to Edward Thomas 50th Anniversary of the Memorial Stone"

DP/ET/2/3/4
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21 September 1987

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

50th anniversary gathering of the unveiling of a memorial stone to Edward Thomas on the Shoulder of Mutton, 2 October 1937. Includes details of a painting of the landscape painted by Mervyn Goode titled "Summer Evening Landscape from the Poet's Stone" and the unveiling of a plaque to Rowland and Cherry Watson

The Edward Thomas Fellowship membership leaflets

DP/ETF/8/1
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c.1990s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

The Edward Thomas Fellowship membership leaflet

DP/ET/2/3/2
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c. 1985

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

The Edward Thomas Fellowship membership leaflet

DP/ET/2/3/1
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c. September 1980

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

The Edward Thomas Fellowship Annual General Meeting minutes, attendance list and provisional statement of accounts for 1984

DP/ETF/5/2/1
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3 March 1985

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Held at the Village Hall, Selborne, Hampshire

The Edward Thomas Fellowship Annual General Meeting agenda, minutes, attendance list and accounts for 1985 and 1986

DP/ETF/5/2/2
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2 March 1986

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Held at Bedales School

The Edward Thomas Fellowship Annual General Meeting agenda and accounts for 1987

DP/ETF/5/2/3
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6 March 1988

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Held at the Village Hall, Selborne, Hampshire

The Dymock Poets One-Day Conference programme and information

DP/A/2/2
File
14 October 2000

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

One-day conference held in collaboration with University College Worcester. Speakers included Dominic Hibberd and Lesley Lee Francis

Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education

"The Dymock Poets Archive and Study Centre" leaflet

DP/A/4/9
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c.2000

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

"The Dymock Poets Archive & Study Centre" leaflet

DP/A/4/8
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3 July 1996

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

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

DP/TM/1/5
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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

Thank you card from Karen Holding to Edward Eastaway Thomas after the death of her father

DP/ET/4/3/1
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24 May 1994

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Tenth Edward Thomas Birthday Walk itinerary

DP/ETF/2/1/10
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7 March 1982

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes map of the route, press release, newspaper cuttings and photographs featuring Edward Cawston Thomas [grandson], Myfanwy Thomas Alan Martin and Anne Mallinson of a presentation of a signed card and decorated bowl. Photographer unknown

Tenth Edward Thomas Autumn Walk itinerary