Special Collections and Archives

Edward Thomas has marked a cross on the postcard and written "The house under this cross, and behind the left hand horse is ours, almost hidden by two lime trees. With our love P E T". Sent to Thomas's friend G I MacAlister in Ottawa, Canada

Photographer unknown

Photograph of Edward Thomas and Merfyn standing outside Berryfield Cottage

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c.1906

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photographer unknown

Mounted studio photograph of Edward Thomas by Frederick H Evans

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1907

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

With pencil and ink annotations, signed by the photographer

Letter from Edward Thomas to Mr Wright

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11 March 1908

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Original letter written by Edward Thomas regarding notes on "Nature War London". Describes "beautiful" stones on Dunwich beach and how he wishes he was a geologist so he could identify them. Invites Wright to walk with him at the weekend. Includes pencil annotation

Photograph of the exterior of The Old Nail Shop, Dymock

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c.1910s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photographer unknown

Photographs of Rupert Brooke by Sherril Schell

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c.1910s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Mounted with pencil annotations

"Poems of Men and Hours" by John Drinkwater

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1911

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by David Nutt, London, first edition. Inscribed "To Francis W Bedford from John Drinkwater Xmas 1911"

Obituary notice of John Pattison Gibson, Fellow of the Society of Antiquities and Vice-President of the Society of Antiquities of Newcastle upon Tyne

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1912

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Father of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson. Gives a full account of his career as a chemist, photographer and archaeologist with a particular interest in Hadrian's Wall

"The Poetry Review"

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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

"Quality Totals" possibly written by Herbert Farjeon

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c.1913

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Handwritten in pencil. Marks were awarded or deducted for certain personal qualities. Includes "Eleanor" [Farjeon], "Godwin" [Baynes], "Joe" [Farjeon], "Peter", "Clifford" [Bax], [Edward] "Thomas", "Arnold" [Bax], "Lynn", "Maitland", "Paul" [Corder] and "Stacy" [Aumonier]

Newspaper announcement for the marriage of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson and Geraldine Townshend

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c. December 1913

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication unknown. The marriage took place on 9 December 1913 at St Bartholomew's Church, Dublin

Mounted studio photograph of Edward Thomas by Emil Otto Hoppé

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1913

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

With pencil and ink annotations, signed by the photographer

Studio photograph of Edward Thomas

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1913

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

With pencil annotations

Photographer unknown

Unfinished drama in the form of letters, written alternatively by Clifford Bax and Herbert Farjeon

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c.1913

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Handwritten in pencil. Letters written amongst the Farjeon - Bax set

Newspaper article "Mr Gibson's Poetry"

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8 May 1913

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the Times Literary Supplement, author unknown. A review of "Daily Bread", "Fires" and "Womenkind", with a review of Edward Thomas's "The Icknield Way" on the reverse

Poem "Venetian C[?]" by Clifford Bax and Herbert Farjeon

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1913

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Handwritten in pencil in Venice

Handwritten index, possibly a biography for Arnold Bax written by Herbert Farjeon

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c.1913

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Written in ink. References Stacy Aumonier and his wife Gertrude Peppercorn, Paul and Dolly Corder, Godwin Baynes, Edward Thomas, Bax and both Farjeons

Woodcut print of a tiger by Maxwell Armfield

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1913

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Signed in pencil "Maxwell Armfield"

Letter from Robert Frost to John Haines

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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

Letter from Robert Frost to John Haines

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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

Letter from Edward Thomas to Eleanor Farjeon

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26 September 1914

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Original letter written by Edward Thomas regarding a visit by Eleanor Farjeon. With original envelope and pencil annotation

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"

Press notice for Wilfrid Wilson Gibson's publications "Thoroughfares" and "Borderlands" by Elkin Matthews

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1914

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes quotations from recent editions of the Times Literary Supplement

Photograph of Edward Thomas

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c.1914

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photographer unknown

Press notice for "Battle" by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson by Elkin Matthews

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1915

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes quotations from recent reviews

"Shakespeare's Songs" by William Shakespeare

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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"

Postcard from J C Squire to Julian Thomas

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c.1915

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

States "Yes. You can hold it in the Albert Hall for all it matters to me"

Handwritten poems by Edward Thomas "The Green Roads", "It Was Upon" and "Women He Liked"

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c.1915

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Handwritten by Edward Thomas. With pencil annotations

Handwritten poem "How at Once"

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c.1915

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Handwritten by Edward Thomas on "Y.M.C.A. H.M. Forces on Active Service" headed paper. With pencil annotation

Wilfrid Wilson Gibson's certificate of unfitness to enlist in His Majesty's Forces

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18 January 1916

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Signed by the Medical Officer and Recruitment Officer

Newspaper article "Soldier-Author" discussing Edward Thomas's new book "The Life of the Duke of Marlborough"

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c.1916

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication unknown. Includes photograph of Edward Thomas and comment that he is now a soldier

"1914 and Other Poems" by Rupert Brooke

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1916

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Sidgwick & Jackson Limited, London

Next of kin notification postcard for Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

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14 November 1917

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Postcard informing Geraldine Gibson that she has been noted as Gibson's next of kin on his appointment to the Army Service Corps. Includes a handwritten clarification that this does not constitute a will or confer right to the soldier's property

Death notice for Edward Thomas

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23 April 1917

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Times. Listed under his full name "Second Lieutenant P. E. Thomas"

Letter to the Editor of The Times Literary Supplement from Thomas Seccombe on the death of Edward Thomas

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19 April 1917

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Article "Wilfred [sic] Wilson Gibson: Poet of Tenement and Trench" by Reverend John Haynes Holmes

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6 January 1917

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Possibly published in "The Survey". A review of Gibson's work, focusing on the "unpretentious" Daily Bread and Battle, described by Holmes as "war poetry of the future"

Provisional programme for the Fabian Summer School

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August 1918

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes talk by Julian Thomas "A Talk on Edward Eastaway & his Poems". Other speakers include Bernard Shaw and Emil Davies. With pencil annotations

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

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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"

Wilfrid Gibson's "Certificate of employment during the war"

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c.1918

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Form describing a soldier's work during military service in order to help him find employment after de-mobilisation. It lists Gibson's rank as "Private" and regimental employment as "Clerking" from January 1917 to January 1918, adding the comment that he was an "efficient and reliable clerk". The form is signed by Gibson

Demobilization certificate for Wilfrid Wilson Gibson