With pencil annotations

Photographer unknown

Includes The Red House, "ancient damson trees" in the garden of The Red House, Yew Tree Cottage and The Cricketers Inn. With ink annotations

Photographer unknown

Letters from those who knew Edward Thomas recounting memories and from publishers regarding publication of the finished manuscript. Includes typescript of memories by Robert Frost sent to John Haines 20 January 1921 and typescript of article on Thomas by Walter de la Mare published in "The Saturday Westminster Gazette" 28 April 1917
Respondents include:
Jessie Berridge
R F Cholmeley
R H Collins
Norman Douglas
Franklin Dyall
David Garnett
E L Grant-Watson
Harry Hooton
J H Morgan
N Hamilton-Fyfe
Elis Jenkins
Franklin Lushington [Thomas's Officer Commanding at Arras]
Ian MacAlister
H E Mann
Margaret Nash
Conal O'Riordan
Lucian Oldershaw
J K Ratcliffe
Ronald Richings [Personal Secretary to Hilaire Belloc]
Winifred Roberts
F G Salter
R A Scott-James
Ernest H Thomas
Merfyn Thomas
Philip Hy Thomas
Theodore Eastaway Thomas

Includes letter written by John Haines regarding subscriptions to the Steep memorial published in the Gloucester Journal 4 April 1936, Features in The Times and Hampshire Observer reporting on memorial unveiling on the Shoulder of Mutton and at Berryfield Cottage with photograph, and a report in the News Chronicle on the unveiling of a plaque at 61 Shelgate Road, Battersea. Two articles mounted. With pencil annotations

£245 10s 4d received in subscriptions. Compiled by Gibson, Harris, Prince & Co. Chartered Accountants

Edward Harry William Meyerstein (b.11 August 1889 d.12 September 1952) was an English writer and scholar

With pencil annotation

Refers to any known recordings of Meyerstein's voice

Robin Guthrie [b.1902 d.1971] was the son of James Guthrie. Letters include news of the death of Robert's son, the death of Robert P Eckert Jr. and a broadcast on Edward Thomas

Dorothy MacAlister was the widow of Ian MacAlister, friend of Edward Thomas. Includes pencil annotations

Ian MacAlister [b.1878 d.1957] was a friend of Edward Thomas. Refers to letters of Edward Thomas now held at Battersea Public Library . Includes pencil annotations

Correspondence from The Edward Thomas Fellowship including news that Cherry Watson was made an honorary life member of the fellowship

Refers to tribute Helen Thomas by Rowland Watson at her funeral. Includes Victoria Wine newsletter with piece on Edward Thomas and copy of letter from Alan T Foreman to Myfanwy regarding her childhood at Otford

Refers to Cherry's health and visits

Includes poem "The Spring: To Edward Thomas" published in The Grasshopper Broadsheets April 1945, invitation to a talk "Edward Thomas (1878-1917): Poet and Critic" by R George Thomas on 15 November 1967, and an information sheet on The Edward Thomas Centenary Memorial appeal which includes copies of signatures of Myfanwy Thomas, Jill Balcon, Alec Guinness and Douglas Snelgar [?] Vicar of Steep

Newspaper article "A Derbyshire poet with a touch of Irish" on Teresa Hooley, including a typescript of her poem "Sex". With annotations

Obituary of Eleanor Farjeon printed in The Times 7 June 1965

Death notice for Rowland Watson printed in The Times

Obituary of Rowland Watson written by Myfanwy Thomas published 9 December 1968

Includes photograph of portrait of James Guthrie by his son Robin, unveiling of the Edward Thomas memorial plaque at Berryfield Cottage featuring John Masefield and Helen Thomas, unveiling of the Edward Thomas memorial plaque in London featuring Helen Thomas, postcards of landscape at Otford, Dunton Green, Kent, Lord Horder, and Cherry Watson, Myfanwy Thomas and Anne Mallinson at The Selbourne Bookshop in Steep

Published by Macmillan and Company Limited, London. Inscribed "John Drinkwater for Tanya 4.X.33"

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

Published by Williams and Norgate, London. Inscribed "Tanya from John Drinkwater August 1932"

Published by Columbia University Press, New York. Inscribed "Tanya with love from John Drinkwater: Highgate Easter 1933"

Written at Brampton. Signed and annotated "For Tanya"

With crossings-out and reworkings. Annotated "Brampton Summer 1932" and "For Tanya for Christmas 1932 from John Drinkwater: Highgate"

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"

With ink annotation

Published in The Guardian. Article on Ivor Gurney

"Frost in England" originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 26 March 1998

Letter from John Morris written to the Stroud News and Journal. Refers to the location of John Masefield's cottage at Pinbury Park, Sapperton, where he lived 1932-1940

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

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

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

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

Photocopies of the original envelopes containing the letters

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

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

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

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"

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

Published in The Journal of the Gower Society

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

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

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