Special Collections and Archives

London. The first Princess Beatrice (left) with Queen Mary, wife of King George V at St James' palace in 1917. Princess Beatrice was the fifth daughter and youngest child of Queen Victoria. The Duke and Duchess of York today named their two week old daughter Beatrice Elizabeth Mary. She will be known as her Royal Highness the Princess Beatrice of York

Date Broadcast: 22 August 1988

ITN Reference: ROYAL/BEAT/1

Agency: Press Association

Photocopy of memoriam notice for Edward Thomas in Bedales Chronicle volume 10 number 6

DP/ET/5/1/6
Item
(c.1980s) June 1917

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Archbishop's Certificate for Divinity examination for Harry Edwin Masters, second class

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Board of Education certificate for Harry Edwin Masters

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

"Registered No. 17/198" 1 August 1917 endorsed 4 December 1918

Letter from "Harry" to "Gertie" written from Mesopotamia

D467/3/9
Item
24 September 1917

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Includes photographs of "Harry" and boats

Photographer unknown

Souvenir album with postcards of St Paul’s

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Photographer unknown

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

DP/MG/2/3
Item
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"

Photocopy of article "Edward Thomas" by E S P Haynes

DP/MT/1/3/11
Item
(c.1990s) June 1917

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the English Review volume 24

Articles

DP/BD/1
Subseries
(c.1990s) 1917 - 2011

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Copy of last will and testament of Leonard Mayer leaving his mother his estate worth £107 13s 7d

D467/4/3/4
Item
6 December 1916

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

"The Poems & Plays of Robert Browning 1844 - 1864" edited by Ernest Rhys

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Examination paper on “The Principles of Teaching”

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Personal Papers

DP/MG/3
Subseries
1916 - c.1950s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photocopy of letter from Edward Thomas to "My dear friend"

DP/RW/1/1/6
Item
(c.1960s) 24 December 1916

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Gives Christmas greetings to unknown recipient, Mrs Williams and Miss John. Gives details of his attachment to the 244th Siege Battery and describes operations at Romney Marsh as well as how his son Mervyn is prospering at home

Diary of Leonard Joseph Mayer written in France

D467/4/1/3
Item
1 January - 15 May 1916

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Written in pencil

Telegraph to Mr Mayer informing of his son Leonard Mayer's death

D467/4/3/1
Item
1 June 1916

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Written in pencil

Deposit relating to Marjorie Sheldon, St Mary's College student 1916 - 1918

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Rawlings, Harry

Student scrapbook of Marjorie Sheldon, St Mary's student 1916 - 1918

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Includes architect's drawing of St Paul's dining hall 1928; newspaper cutting of the visit by His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh to St Paul's College in 1957; correspondence; photographs of staff and students; reunion 1947 programme; pressed flowers; social programmes; songs; good luck cards and list of people in "Lower North" dormitory

With loose items and pencil annotations

Photocopy and typescript of letter from Edward Thomas to Joe Jefferson Farjeon