Special Collections and Archives

DP/VD/57/3
Item
22 September 1914

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

Photographs of interior and exterior views of The Priory

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Photographer unknown

Photograph of three St Paul’s students after they had joined the 19th Fusiliers

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Annotated on reverse. Students are Edwin Cooper, William Henry Lock and Leonard Frank Clist. Photograph taken by A W Pierce photographer, Nottingham

Photographs of Leonard Henry Green CBE in army uniform and Royal Warwickshire Regiment on parade prior to World War I

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Photographer unknown. Annotated

Needlework specimen book belonging to Nellie Knight

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

With patterns and fabric attached. Also paper entitled “First lesson in Herring boning”

Knight, Nellie

Union of Lancashire and Cheshire Institutes certificate awarded to Amy Rosina Burgess

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Awarded for German (Elementary Grade) at the Municipal School of Commerce, Manchester

Postcard showing a student dormitory at The Priory

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

"Essays on Education" by Herbert Spencer

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Published by J M Dent & Sons Limited

"Junior Experimental Science" by W M Hooton

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Published by the University Tutorial Press Limited

Inscribed "F O Hartop, Saltley College, Birmingham"

Photograph of postcard of St Paul’s laboratory after the fire on 8 January 1914

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Photographer unknown

Photographs on postcards of D Gould and other students at her birthday tea, in the “Pied Piper of Hamelin”, and at a sports day

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Photographer unknown

List of 1912-1914 St Paul’s students with nicknames

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Portrait photograph of the Queen Mother

ITN/5/15/11
Item
1914

Part of Independent Television News (ITN) Image Archive

Photographer: E O Hoppe

Agency: Mansell

Letter from Edward Thomas to Eleanor Farjeon

DP/RW/1/1/2
Item
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

Letter from Edward Thomas to C F Cazenove

DP/VD/23
Subseries
15 July 1914

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Previously unpublished letter from Thomas to his literary agent C F Cazenove. Describes his current works and confides his dislike for commissioned "hack work". The letter ends that "some sort of end is pretty well up above the horizon". Includes typed transcription

Unpublished according to http://www.edward-thomas-fellowship.org.uk/downloads/Edward-Thomas-Letters-Index.pdf

Postcard from Robert Frost to John Haines

DP/VD/57/2
Item
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

DP/MG/5/1
Item
1914

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes quotations from recent editions of the Times Literary Supplement

Portrait photograph of the Queen Mother

ITN/5/15/10
Item
1914

Part of Independent Television News (ITN) Image Archive

Photographer: E O Hoppe

Agency: Mansell

Photograph of Edward Thomas

DP/RW/1/4/7
Item
c.1914

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photographer unknown

Letters from Leonard Mayer to his brother Arthur and mother Mrs Mayer

D467/4/2/4
Item
9 and 19 July 1915

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Written in pencil

Photograph of Reverend H A Bren, Principal of St Paul’s College

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Photographer unknown

Unknown

A Short History of the Gloucestershire Regiment

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Daily orders of the Tenth Service Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment

D327/3
Item
10 February - 6 March 1915

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Decimal Association annual report

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Notes on operations by Generals Thomas and Mackenzie Kennedy

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

"Cambridge Geographical Readers: VI Some Great Regions of the World" edited by G F Bosworth

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Published by Cambridge University Press, London

"The Surface of the Earth: Elementary Physical and Economic Geography" by Herbert Pickles

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Published by Cambridge University Press, London

Diary of Leonard Joseph Mayer written in France

D467/4/1/1
Item
9 March - 12 December 1915

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Written in pencil

Letter from Leonard Mayer to his sister "Gert" Gertrude Mayer

D467/4/2/2
Item
5 July 1915

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Written in pencil

Letter from Leonard Mayer to his brother "Ted" [Edwin Frederick Mayer] who was living in New York

D467/4/2/6
Item
26 August 1915

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Written in pencil

Letter from E K[ichner]-White, Chaplain of 2 Stationary Hospital, to Mrs Mayer regarding Leonard Mayer's death

D467/4/3/5
Item
3 June 1915

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

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

DP/MG/5/2
Item
1915

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes quotations from recent reviews

"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"

Letter from Leonard Mayer to his mother Mrs Mayer on first arriving in France as part of the British Expeditionary Force

D467/4/2/1
Item
19 March 1915

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Written in pencil

Letter from Leonard Mayer to his mother Mrs Mayer

D467/4/2/5
Item
31 July 1915

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Written in pencil

Letter from Leonard Mayer to his mother Mrs Mayer

D467/4/2/7
Item
21 November 1915

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Written in pencil

Book with transcribed copies of letters written by Leonard Mayer to his family

D467/4/2/9
Item
3 March - 29 May 1915

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Church of England Training College prospectus

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

St Mary's Hall Department for Mistresses and The Priory Hostel

Collection of photographs featuring L H Jarrett, St Paul's student 1914 - 1916, who transferred to Saltley College due to wartime emergencies in 1915

D340
Series
c.1914 - 1915

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Includes The Archive Guard, The Jury, year group c.1914-1915, students, sports teams, "The Monitors" 1914-1915, "Junior Rifle Team", staff, drama, posters for concerts at The Coliseum, buildings and a ticket for a cricket match Cheltenham Training College versus Dudley Training College at Dudley Cricket Ground on Saturday 19 June 1915. With pencil annotations

Photographer unknown

Jarrett, Miss M A V

Postcard from J C Squire to Julian Thomas

DP/ET/5/2/1
Item
c.1915

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

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

Letter from Leonard Mayer to his sister "Gert" Gertrude Mayer

D467/4/2/3
Item
9 July 1915

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Written in pencil

Contract between the Cheltenham Education Committee and Annie Mary Burgess as Head Teacher of Cheltenham Parish Infant School

D638/5
Item
20 December 1915

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Appointment from 1 January 1908

An essay on "The Story and Appreciation of Old Pictures in Florence" by Dorothy Cartwright

D33/6
Item
16 October 1915

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

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

DP/RW/1/1/3
Item
c.1915

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Handwritten by Edward Thomas. With pencil annotations

Handwritten poem "How at Once"

DP/RW/1/1/4
Item
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

Vincent Corbett Drawings

DP/RW/8/2
File
c.1912-1915

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Comical drawings of Rowland and Cherry Watson on postcards and paper. Includes a postcard with illustration by Eric G McColl entitled "A Page from the Life of a P S U". With ink annotations

Copy of last will and testament of Leonard Mayer leaving his mother his estate worth £107 13s 7d