"Oliver Cromwell: a play" by John Drinkwater
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- 1954
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Published by Sidgwick & Jackson Limited, London
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"Oliver Cromwell: a play" by John Drinkwater
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Published by Sidgwick & Jackson Limited, London
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)"
"1914 and Other Poems" by Rupert Brooke
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Published by Sidgwick & Jackson Limited, London
"Letters of John Keats to his Family and Friends" edited by Sidney Colvin
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Published by Macmillan and Company Limited, London. Inscribed "John Drinkwater for Tanya 4.X.33"
"The Augustan Books of Modern Poetry" box edited by Edward Thompson and Humbert Wolfe
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
Handmade Shakespeare book cabinet by John Drinkwater
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
"One-Act Plays for Secondary Schools" edited by James Plaisted Webber and Hanson Hart Webster
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Pencil inscription "Tanya Moiseiwitsch"
"Kenilworth" by Sir Walter Scott
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Published by Macmillan and Company Limited, London. Inscribed "Tanya with much love from Big John: Christmas 1926 Wallington"
"Patriotism in Literature" by John Drinkwater
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Published by Williams and Norgate, London. Inscribed "Tanya from John Drinkwater August 1932"
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Woodcut print of a tiger by Maxwell Armfield
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Signed in pencil "Maxwell Armfield"
Handwritten poem "The Heresy of an Elder or Not Believing in Fairies" by John Drinkwater
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Signed and dated. Written in Hungerford
Photograph of cast and associates for a production of "Bird in Hand" by John Drinkwater
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 poems E[?] and "The Little Paradise" by John Drinkwater
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Written at Brampton. Signed and annotated "For Tanya"
Handwritten poem "The Fool" by John Drinkwater
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 poem "An Englishman's Song" by John Drinkwater
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Signed and annotated "For Tanya: John D: Finished at Brampton 14.vi.32"
Handwritten stanza of poetry written by John Drinkwater on the back of a Lords cricket card
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"
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Submitted for an MA at the University of Birmingham
Essay "The Only Brother I Ever Had" by Linda Hart
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Postcard showing Robert Frost stained glass window at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Photocopies and prints of images of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
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
Newspaper articles on the Dymock Poets, St Mary's Church in Dymock and May Hill
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
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
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Photocopy of preface to the 1970 edition of Harold Munro's "Collected Poems" by Ruth Tomalin
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Framed handwritten version of "Sonnet XLII from First & Second Love"
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Includes Eleanor Farjeon's signature. "First and Second Love" was published by Michael Joseph in 1947, the two loves being Stacy Aumonier and Edward Thomas
Photocopies of letters to John Wilton Haines
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Photocopies and transcripts of letters and postcards covering a wide range of subjects including Freeman's poetry and details of his social and domestic life. Also includes one letter from Gertrude Freeman
John Freeman (1880-1929) was a poet and critic
Letters from Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Photocopies of letters and postcards covering a wide range of subjects including reviews of Gibson's poetry, the publication of New Numbers and Gibson's army service. Also included are typed copies of poems Northleach, Bourton-on-the-Water, Old Meg, Stow-on-the-Wold and a handwritten draft of The Empty Cottage. Also includes one letter from Geraldine Gibson regarding the forthcoming publication of New Numbers
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Photocopies of letters and cards from friends of Haines. They include thank you letters from children, expressions of sympathy on the death of his father and comments on contemporary literature. Authors include Marion M Scott, C W B Marsh, Madge Balfour, Lilian Gale, Ethel Priday, Dot Whitley and C C Haines
Also includes a letter to Alice from "Papa" dated 1864
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Photocopies of the original envelopes containing the letters
Photographs of people and places associated with Laurie Lee
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
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
Sheet music relating to Edward Thomas
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
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
Sheet music for the song "Sowing" with words by Edward Thomas and music by Ivor Gurney
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
With ink annotation
Sheet music "Adlestrop" with words by Edward Thomas and music by Gordon Jacob
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Held at the McGregor Room-Alderman Library at the University of Virginia, May - June 1996
Documents relating to the Laurence Whistler window dedicated to Edward and Helen Thomas at Eastbury
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Letter from Myfanwy Thomas to Mr Batty regarding thanking him for his contribution to the window and inquiring if he is related to Mr Trevor Batty, who owned Ashford Chase at Steep before Lord Horder, 20 November 1969
Letter from Myfanwy Thomas to Mr Batty recounting the dedication of the memorial window at Eastbury, 7 November 1971
Information letter, circular and pamphlet with loose photograph of the memorial window
Article "Tribute to a Poet: The Edward Thomas Window at Eastbury" by Noel Carrington published in County Life October 1971
Letter from Edward Thomas to C F Cazenove
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
Framed prints of Edward Thomas at Oxford, Arras and a pencil drawing of Edward Thomas
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Frame one contains a printed portrait photograph of Edward Thomas whilst at Oxford c.1900 and a view of La Petit Place, Arras
Frame two contains a pencil drawing of Edward Thomas that hung on the study wall of Eric Norris
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
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
Photocopies of letters from Eleanor Farjeon to Rowland Watson
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Letters sent 20 June 1939, 25 November 1947 and 8 June 1952
CD "Bound for Glory: Songs and Piano Music on a Railway Theme" by Gordon Pullin and John Gough
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Includes Adlestrop by Edward Thomas with music by Gordon Jacob
Extract from "To the Memory of Edward Thomas" by James Guthrie
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Uncut title, contents, frontispiece portrait of Edward Thomas by Robin Guthrie, introductory note and first page of chapter "Edward Thomas: The Friend and the Artist"
Letters from Edward Thomas to Edward Clodd
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Discusses a commission of work and Thomas describes himself as "a young unknown editor"
Unpublished according to http://www.edward-thomas-fellowship.org.uk/downloads/Edward-Thomas-Letters-Index.pdf
Photocopy of newspaper article "The sorrowful song" by David McKie
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Published in The Guardian. Article on Ivor Gurney
Typescript of play "The Unfathomable Deep" by Andrea Scott
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Characters include Edward Thomas, Helen Thomas, Eleanor Farjeon and Ivor Gurney
Letters from Myfanwy Thomas and Edward Eastaway Thomas to Alan Martin
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Letters and postcards from Myfanwy Thomas
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Includes photograph of Helen Thomas and Miss Gwen John, President of the Swansea Literary Society, at a talk Helen gave to the Society in 1938, and a tribute to Anne Mallinson written by Myfanwy
Letters and postcards from Edward Eastaway Thomas
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Includes essay "The Edward Thomas Birthday Walk" c.1982; copy of article "Edward Thomas & Battersea: Some Connections" published in The Wandsworth Historian December 1978; copy of Edward Thomas book reviews published in The Wandsworth Historian September 1979; letter accompanying correspondence between Rowland Watson and Julian Thomas between 1936 - 1948 given to Edward by Cherry Watson [now missing]; final letter from Edward's wife Ruth Dyson