Special Collections and Archives

CD "Bound for Glory: Songs and Piano Music on a Railway Theme" by Gordon Pullin and John Gough

DP/VD/27
Subseries
2004

Includes Adlestrop by Edward Thomas with music by Gordon Jacob

Extract from "To the Memory of Edward Thomas" by James Guthrie

DP/VD/28
Subseries
1937

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

DP/VD/29
Subseries
26 June - 7 July 1906

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Unpublished according to http://www.edward-thomas-fellowship.org.uk/downloads/Edward-Thomas-Letters-Index.pdf

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Previously unpublished letter from Thomas to his literary agent C F Cazenove.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Unpublished according to http://www.edward-thomas-fellowship.org.uk/downloads/Edward-Thomas-Letters-Index.pdf

Typescript of play "The Unfathomable Deep" by Andrea Scott

DP/VD/30
Subseries
c.2000s

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

DP/VD/31
Subseries
1971 - 1999

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Letters and postcards from Myfanwy Thomas

DP/VD/31/1
File
19 October 1971 - 20 November 1999

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

DP/VD/31/2
File
16 March 1978 - 24 February 1996

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

Audio cassette with recording of Catherine Abercrombie interview

DP/JC/3/3/1
Item
(c.1980s) 12 November 1963

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Interview with Catherine Abercrombie recounting her memories of the Dymock Poets. Interviewed by Jo Stewart

Audio cassette with audio recording of Catherine Abercrombie interview

DP/JC/3/3/2
Item
(c.1980s) 19 April 1965

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Interview with Catherine Abercrombie recounting her memories of the Dymock Poets. Interviewed by Leigh Crutchley

Audio cassette with recording of Catherine Abercrombie interview

DP/JC/3/3/3
Item
(c.1980s) 28 October 1965

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Interview with Catherine Abercrombie recounting her memories of the Dymock Poets. Interviewed by Jeff Cooper

Audio cassette recording of Radio 4 broadcast "No One Left: No One Came" by Anne Harvey

DP/GF/5/3
Item
July 2001

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

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

DP/VD/25
Subseries
c.2000s

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

Letter from Edward Thomas to Eleanor Farjeon

DP/VD/33
Subseries
21 October 1914, 1948

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Letter contained in book "The Prose of Edward Thomas" selected by Roland Gant. Volume inscribed "To dearest Joan from Nellie Christmas 1954" [Eleanor Farjeon's handwriting]

Letter published in "The Last Four Years" by Eleanor Farjeon, page 101. Responds to news that Eleanor's brother Herbert [Bertie] is to be married to Joan Thornycroft daughter of Sir Hamo Thornycroft RA, sculptor. Joan was also, via her aunt Theresa Sassoon née Thornycroft, first cousin to Siegfried Sassoon

CD "Cotswold Songs" by Colin Decio

DP/VD/34
Subseries
2004

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Features Evelyne Beech as soprano. Includes settings to poetry of John Drinkwater from "Tides", published 1917

PhD thesis "The Definition of Edward Thomas: The Poetry of Identity" by Christopher Saunders

DP/VD/35
Subseries
2002

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Unbound

Digital scanned copy of music "Song for the City of Oxford School" with lyrics by John Drinkwater c.1930

DP/VD/36
Subseries
(c.2013

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in Drinkwater's "Summer Harvest: Poems 1922-1933" anthology

Article "A Citizen of Eternity" by Matthew Hollis

DP/VD/37
Subseries
30 July 2011

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Guardian Review supplement. Documents the friendship between Robert Frost and Edward Thomas

Canvas bag with printed Edward Thomas quotation accompanying "Now All Roads Lead to France" book by Matthew Hollis

DP/VD/38
Subseries
c.2011

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Edward Thomas quotation from "Thaw"

Coursework study "Edward Thomas: Poet" by Sophie Milner, great great granddaughter of Edward Thomas

DP/VD/39/1
Item
2009

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Details Thomas's life, poetry and contemporaries. With images

Deposited by Edward Cawston Thomas

DP/VD/39
Subseries
2009

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photocopy of article "The Castle of Carbonek, "Meet for All Adventurers and All Dreams": Pennard Castle, Edward Thomas, and Swansea" by Brian Hicks

DP/VD/39/2
Item
2009

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Journal of the Gower Society

Letter from Myfanwy Thomas to Ken Watts [Edward Thomas Fellowship member]

DP/VD/41
Subseries
26 September 2002

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Thanks him for his study on her father Edward Thomas and recounts childhood memories about Arthur Ransome and his wife Ivy

Two photographs of Roy Palmer [Chair of the Friends of the Dymock Poets] with Myfanwy Thomas, taken at Myfanwy's home in Berkshire 24 November 2002, taken by Pat Palmer

DP/VD/42
Subseries
2002, 2014

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes accompanying letter from Pat Palmer, 17 June 2014

Almedia Theatre production programe for play "The Dark Earth and the Light Sky" by Nick Dear, based on Edward Thomas, Helen Thomas, Robert Frost and Eleanor Farjeon

DP/VD/43
Subseries
2013

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Performed at the Almedia Theatre 8 November 2012 - 12 January 2013

Flyer for the production of "Strange Ghost: A new opera marking the centenary of the death of Rupert Brooke"

DP/VD/44
Subseries
2015

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

In association with The Rupert Brooke Society, Festival Theatre, Cambridge Buddhist Centre, 11-13 December 2015

Framed pencil drawing of W H Davies [1871 - 1940] by John Wheatley [1892 - 1955], ARA

DP/VD/45
Subseries
c. 20th century

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Annotated on reverse "John Wheatley (Studio Collection) W H Davies" and stamped "The Guild of Master Craftsmen"

Also includes photocopy of page of "Painting in Newlyn" catalogue featuring an oil on canvas portrait of W H Davies

Article "Diary tells of chaffinches, rooks, shells and shrapnel" by Philip Howard

DP/ETF/1/5/2
Item
24 February 1977

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Times. Refers to the discovery of Edward Thomas's diary and the forthcoming publication of his final poem dated 14 January 1917 by The Whittington Press. Also includes information sheet on The Edward Thomas Centenary Memorial

Article "Tribute to a Poet: The Edward Thomas Window at Eastbury" by Noel Carrington

DP/ETF/1/5/1
Item
7 October 1971

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in Country Life. As the dedication date for the windows [16 October 1971] approaches, this article discusses how the idea for the window evolved, how money was raised and how it was designed and engraved. The article also discusses the relevance of the details of the Laurence Whistler design at the church of St James the Greater, Eastbury

Photocopy of article "Memorial to poet planned at Steep"

DP/ETF/1/5/3
Item
(c.1970s)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the Portsmouth Evening Times on 2 March 1977, author unknown

Article "The diary of Edward Thomas"

DP/ETF/1/5/4
Item
30 June 1977

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the East Hampshire Post, author unknown. Review of the "Diary of Edward Thomas" by the Whittington Press and an account of the launch of this publication

Sheet with articles on Edward Thomas

DP/ETF/1/5/5
Item
1977

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

"Old white horse" by P J Kavanagh, review of The Diary of Edward Thomas published by The Whittington Press. Includes wood engraving by Hellmuth Weissenborn

Wood engraving by Hellmuth Weissenborn from The Diary of Edward Thomas. Published in The Times 1977

"Behind the Arras" published in The Daily Telegraph on 29 June 1977. Describes how engraver Hellmuth Weissenborn fought in the same sector as Edward Thomas during World War I

"Front-line poet", review of The Diary of Edward Thomas by Jan Marsh. Published in The Daily Telegraph 30 June 1977

Article "Edward Thomas's widow to be honoured at weekend"

DP/ETF/1/5/6
Item
9 July 1977

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Times, author unknown. Mounted on an envelope containing dried and pressed plant old man, or lad's love, taken from the grave of Helen Thomas 11 July 1977. With ink annotations, possibly by Alan Martin

Photocopy of article "Tributes to wife and poet"

DP/ETF/1/5/7
Item
(c.1970s)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in NWN on 21 July 1977, author unknown. An account of the service at St James' Church Eastbury to mark the centenary of the birth of Helen Thomas

Article "Booksellers' Choice: Ten booksellers choose the books they most enjoyed in 1977"