Special Collections and Archives

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

DP/FDP/5/71
Item
September 2017

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publicity

DP/FDP/6
Subseries
c.1995 - c.2005

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Gervase Farjeon and Anne Harvey Series

DP/GF
Series
1913 - (c.2001)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Farjeon, Gervase

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

DP/GF/1/4
Item
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

DP/GF/1/6
Item
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

DP/GF/4/2
Item
1913

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Handwritten in pencil in Venice

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

DP/GF/4/5
Item
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

DP/GF/5/6
Item
(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

Constitution

DP/JC/1/3
File
1993, 2012

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Friends of the Dymock Poets Constitution

Correspondence

DP/JC/1/4
File
17 September 2012 - 1 October 2014

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Correspondence to and from Jeff Cooper in his role as Chair

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

DP/JC/1/6/1
Item
1996

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes note from Colin to Jeff Cooper

Typescript for talk "Remembering Wilfrid Gibson" by Merryn Williams

DP/JC/1/6/4
Item
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
Item
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

DP/JC/1/7/7
Item
2014

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Four Decades of Poetry Journal

DP/JC/2
Subseries
1975-1981, 1991

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

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

Proof copy of "Progress in Literature" by Lascelles Abercrombie

DP/JC/3/1/4
Item
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