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Includes Autumn in Malvern festival leaflet 2016; Minutes for the Annual General Meeting of the Friends of the Dymock Poets 3 October 2015; Booking form and programme for the Annual General Meeting Weekend 2016; Friends of the Dymock Poets Constitution 2016

Friends of the Dymock Poets Newsletter Issue 68

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September 2017

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Newspaper article "Brows of all levels: A fragment of dialogue on the claims of American culture, set down without prejudice by Marcus Cunliffe"

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22 July 1957

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Daily Telegraph United States Supplement. A fictional debate between an American and an Englishman over the relative cultural maturity of America in which the American cites the poems of Robert Frost as evidence of that maturity

Newspaper article "Names and Faces: Vermont Medal for Frost" by William Rollins

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22 March 1964

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the New York Herald Tribune. Report of the State of Vermont's striking of a memorial seal in honour of Robert Frost, Vermont's "poet laureate"

Poem "Venetian C[?]" by Clifford Bax and Herbert Farjeon

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1913

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Handwritten in pencil in Venice

Handwritten index, possibly a biography for Arnold Bax written by Herbert Farjeon

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c.1913

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Written in ink. References Stacy Aumonier and his wife Gertrude Peppercorn, Paul and Dolly Corder, Godwin Baynes, Edward Thomas, Bax and both Farjeons

Photocopy of letter from Myfanwy Thomas to Judy Taylor and Julia MacRae at The Bodley Head

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(c.2000s) 20 April 1967

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Letter thanking Judy and Julia for their letters after the death of Myfanwy's mother Helen Thomas. Includes a description of the funeral service

"John Jeffreys' settings of the poems from "Whin" by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson" by Colin Scott-Sutherland

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1996

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes note from Colin to Jeff Cooper

Typescript for talk "Remembering Wilfrid Gibson" by Merryn Williams

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c.2000s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes several poems by Wilfrid Gibson

Original artwork for the cover of the Journal of the Dymock Poets and Friends number 12 by Laura Nicholson

DP/JC/1/6/9
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12 December 2012

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Pen and ink drawing featuring a cottage [The Old Nail Shop?] for the 2013 edition of the journal

"An Introduction to The Dymock Poets" leaflet

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2014

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Proof copy of "Progress in Literature" by Lascelles Abercrombie

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1929

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Loose pages within a cover. Pages are stamped "University Press Cambridge: 5 Apr 1929" and initialled "ERB". Annotated on back cover by Lascelles Abercrombie. Includes pencil annotations

Proof copies of "The Sale of Saint Thomas in Six Acts" by Lascelles Abercrombie

DP/JC/3/1/5
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1930

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Loose pages. With pen and ink and pencil annotations by Lascelles Abercrombie

Audio cassette with recording of Catherine Abercrombie interview

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(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

"An Index to Poetry in Selected British and Irish Periodicals 1900-1925" by Jeffrey Cooper

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1984

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Two volumes, loose sheets. Thesis submitted for the Fellowship of the Library Association

Christmas greeting from John and Daisy Drinkwater, probably to Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

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Christmas 1924

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

A printed poem by John Drinkwater, translated from the German of Edward Morike. Includes a handwritten message by John Drinkwater "From John and Daisy Drinkwater: Christmas 1924"

Note from Wilfrid Wilson Gibson to his son Michael

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c.1930s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Handwritten poem written by Gibson to his son Michael

I've taken my own way through life and so
If you don't follow in my steps, dear son,
But blaze your own trail, 'twill be good to know
At least you're doing just what I have done

Letter from Christopher Hassall to Michael Gibson

DP/MG/1/2/5
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10 February 1958

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Thanking Michael for permission to publish letters from Wilfrid Wilson Gibson to Edward Marsh. Refers to trip to Wales to give recitals on Dylan Thomas and giving the Edward Marsh book to the publishers after 5 years and 1 month

Article "Wilfred [sic] Wilson Gibson: Poet of Tenement and Trench" by Reverend John Haynes Holmes

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6 January 1917

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Possibly published in "The Survey". A review of Gibson's work, focusing on the "unpretentious" Daily Bread and Battle, described by Holmes as "war poetry of the future"

Newspaper article "Narrative in Verse"

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13 May 1947

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Daily Telegraph, author unknown. A review of Coldknuckles praising its "racy narrative" and comparing his characterisation to Thomas Hardy. With pencil annotations

Newspaper article "In Good Voice" by J C Trewin

DP/MG/2/12
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31 August 1947

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Observer. A review of "Coldknuckles" praising it as an "uncommonly expert story-poem, own cousin to the swift, surging narratives of Masefield". With pencil annotations

Wilfrid Gibson's "Certificate of employment during the war"

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c.1918

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Form describing a soldier's work during military service in order to help him find employment after de-mobilisation. It lists Gibson's rank as "Private" and regimental employment as "Clerking" from January 1917 to January 1918, adding the comment that he was an "efficient and reliable clerk". The form is signed by Gibson

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