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Execution of Meyerstein's will

Documents relating to E H W Meyerstein's death and the role of Rowland Watson as executor of his will. Includes:

Correspondence from John Farquharson Limited Business Manager and Philip Larkin whilst Librarian at the University of Hull

Detailed valuation lists of Meyerstein's estate and books and papers held in the crypt of Godrington Library, All Souls College, Oxford

Newspaper cuttings regarding the Meyerstein library sale

Publishers agreements between the executors of the Meyerstein estate regarding the royalties for his works "Phoebe Thirsk", "Of My Early Life", "Selected Poems of E H W Meyerstein", "Some Letters of E H W Meyerstein", "Verse Letters to Five Friends" and "Bollond"

Information on the Chatterton Lecture at the British Academy funded by a bequest from the Meyerstein estate

Hanslip Fletcher

Hanslip Fletcher [b.1874 d.1955] was an artist and the letters discuss his drawings. Includes pencil annotations

Myfanwy Thomas

Includes some correspondence from Helen Thomas to Watson. Includes family news and discussions on Edward Thomas

Alison Lowbury

Refers to a booklet on Alison's father, Andrew Young, and his correspondence with Rowland Watson, Meyerstein, Eleanor Farjeon and Clifford Bax

Various

Single letter from E H W Meyerstein offering sympathy for her loneliness, quote from John Stoddart [friend of Wordsworth written 1801] handwritten by Rowland for Sanchia on her marriage and compliments card from Lyn and Sanchia Metcalfe on their wedding day, 6 December 1944

Helen Thomas

Programme for Battersea Grammar School Prize Distribution ceremony for the Upper School awarded by Helen Thomas on 22 December 1937 and typescript of "A North Country Kitchen in the 'Eighties" by Helen Thomas, recounting her childhood in Southport

Other Publications

Transcript of the introduction to Rowland Watson's book "Old Inns" by Clifford Bax

"Strawberry Hill Then and Now" pamphlet by Reverend P J Dunning

Photocopy of "New Paths: Verse, Prose and Pictures 1917-1918"

Typescript of poem "Red Pardoy (after Browning)" initialled T H

Order of service for the funeral of James Edward Charles Langham, 12 October 1967

List of materials displayed at the "Poets of the First World War Exhibition" at the Imperial War Museum November 1974 - June 1975

Writing of Rowland Watson

Includes handwritten notes and typescripts "A Remarkable Pair: Bob Saunders and Geoffrey Williams", "Helen Thomas" written for The Times after her death, and "Lord Horder" written after his death

Letters and postcards from Edward Eastaway Thomas

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

Photocopies of correspondence between Edward Thomas and James Ashcroft Noble

James Ashcroft Noble was the father of Helen Noble, who married Edward Thomas in 1899
Includes letter from George Colwell to James Ashcroft Noble, 8 November 1895
Letters from James Ashcroft Noble to Edward Thomas, 23 October 1895 - 28 February 1896
Letters from Edward Thomas to James Ashcroft Noble, 10 January 1896 - 3 March 1896

Articles and Publications 1940s

"Books in General" by V S Pritchett published in The New Statesman and Nation, 22 March 1947. Refers to a lecture by Rupert Brooke given to Cambridge University's Fabian Society in 1911

"The Artist Once" published in The Times Literary Supplement, 22 March 1947. Review if "Democracy and the Arts" by Rupert Brooke

Letter from Iolo A Williams published in The Times Literary Supplement 5 April 1947 querying the date of Rupert Brooke's lecture "Democracy and the Arts" at Cambridge

Cutting with photograph of the unveiling of a plaque to Edward Thomas at 61 Shelgate Road, Battersea c.1949

Correspondence to Richard Emeny

Respondents include:
Dwight Eddins
Martha Vogeler
National Library of Wales
Ken Kirk
Roy Carnon
Richard Lowndes
Sean Street
Margaret Thompson
Heather Norris Nicholson and Steve Nicholson
Edward Cawston Thomas
Maureen Silver

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