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Two audio cassette recordings of "Kings and Queens" and "A Nursery in the Nineties" by Eleanor and Herbert Farjeon

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

Sheet music relating to Edward Thomas

Programme and sheet music for a concert "Music inspired by the poetry of Edward Thomas" at The Royal College of Music on 24 April 1999, hosted by The Edward Thomas Fellowship. Music includes:
"Dreams of Men: Four Songs for high voice, oboe and piano" by Kenneth V Jones
"The Source" by Edward Thomas and Michael Tippett
"Gone, Gone Again" by Edward Thomas
"Tall Nettles" by Edward Thomas
"Snow" by Edward Thomas and John Jeffreys [pencil annotation]
"Snow" by Edward Thomas and Ivor Gurney
"Prelude in D flat" by Ivor Gurney
"The Night Songs of Edward Thomas" by Michael Hurd
"Out in the Dark" by Edward Thomas and Edmund Rubbra
"Two Poems of Edward Thomas for S A T B Choir" by Howard Skempton. Commissioned by the Council for the Protection of Rural England in celebration of their 70th anniversary
"World Without End" by Trevor Hold. For the Crispian Trio in memory of Helen and Edward Thomas
"Early One Morning" by Trevor Hold
"Lights Out" by Ivor Gurney

Also includes "additional music found in the archives of Edward Eastaway Thomas after his death":
"The Cherry Trees" by Edward Thomas and Ivor Gurney
"The Bridge" by Edward Thomas and Edward Eastaway Thomas
"The Threshold of the New" by Mary Chandler
"The Trumpet" by Edward Thomas and Owen Mase
"The Huckster" by Edward Thomas and William Garnett
"Into the Unknown" by Edward Thomas and P W Duffy

Articles and flyer relating to the Dymock Poets

Magazine article "The origin of a famous war poet" on Wilfred Owen by John W Foster c.1990s
Newspaper article "Poetic injustice" on the decision not to name a road "Farjeon Way" in Ledbury. Published in the Western Daily Press on 22 February 1997
"Dymock Poets: The Four Churches of The Windcross Parishes" flyer c.1990s

University of Gloucestershire

Photocopy of receipt for "New Numbers"

Photocopy of an original receipt for the periodical New Numbers for 7s 6d from Norman S Macdonnell. Handwritten by Catherine Abercrombie. Accompanied by a postcard from Lorna Beckett, later Chair of the Rupert Brooke Society

Newspaper articles on the Dymock Poets, St Mary's Church in Dymock and May Hill

Article "A literary 'footnote'" by George Henderson published in The Citizen 23 December 1994
Photocopy of article "To the top of the singing hill" by Gerald Isaaman published in The Daily Mail's Weekend magazine 25 November 1995
Article "St Mary's draws poetic pilgrims" by George Henderson published in The Citizen 14 September 1996

Photocopies and prints of images of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

Includes photocopy of article "New book's tribute to the other Gibson" published in the Hexham Courant 19 January 1996. Images include studio shots of Gibson, pencil drawing of Gibson by Helen Wilson in 1928, Gibson aged 18, Geraldine and Wilfrid outside The Old Nail Shop, and interior images of The Old Nail Shop. With pencil annotations

Photographer unknown

Photocopy of article "Weekend tribute to poets"

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

Photographic prints of the May Hill and Dymock area by Trudie Ballantyne

13 prints framed, 4 unframed

Landscape orientation, taken through a soft photographic filter. Frames 535mm x 535mm

Footpath, Dymock [two copies, framed]
Wild Daffodils, Ryton Woods [framed]
The Tunnels Mouth, Dymock [framed]
Morning Mist, May Hill [two copies, framed]
Ploughed Field, Ryton [framed]
Hail Storm over the Forest of Dean from May Hill [framed]
May Hill [unframed]
Marsh Marigold, Greenways Cross [framed]
Apple Blossom, Leddington [unframed]
Harts Tongue Fern [unframed]
Wild Garlic [framed]
Half-pipe style pathway through a dense forest [framed]
Yew & Ivy, Dymock Church [framed]
Tree Trunk [unframed]
Perry Tree, Eldersfield [framed]

Four Decades of Poetry Journal

Four Decades was a short-lived journal of reviews and criticism of poetry written during the period 1890-1930 which published nine volumes between 1976-1979. It was edited by Jeff Cooper and Esther Fisher

Photographs of people and places associated with Laurie Lee

Photographs annotated on reverse
Photograph of the exterior of Laurie Lee's birthplace in Uplands, Stroud
Photograph of the exterior of the London flat where Laurie Lee lived and wrote for 35 years
Photograph of the memorial to Laurie Lee "El Oranescritor" that stands on the sea front at Almuñécar, Spain
Photograph of Barbara Hooper interviewing Señor Manuel Mateos, who knew Laurie Lee in 1935, in Almuñécar, Spain
Photograph of mounted photograph of Laurie Lee in Africa c.1948 with inscription "Jan love from Laurie (The Desert Fox) Sahara"

Photographer unknown

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