- DP/RW/5/12
- File
- 1950
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
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
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
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
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Letters from Helen Thomas to Jo Dawson
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
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
Articles and Publications 1940s
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
"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
Memories of Edward Thomas letters
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
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
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Refers to articles on Edward Thomas by Ernest Rhys and newspaper cuttings
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
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
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
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
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Margaret, Princess (1930 - 2002)
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
One-off correspondence from various sources
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
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
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
One-off and general correspondence. Includes pencil annotations
Letters from:
L J Packington
Hayward Martin
Celia Sparger
Sanchia Watson
John W Sich
Joan Hassall
Frank Francis
T C Skeat
Nathaniel Micklem
Mary M Lago
Esther de Waal
Joan A Roebling
Newspaper cuttings regarding the steep memorial and plaque at 61 Shelgate Road, Battersea
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
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
Letters regarding the Edward Thomas Memorial on the Shoulder of Mutton, Steep
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Includes letter from Ezra Pound against the memorial
Other letters from:
Wilfred E Baderley
Algernon Blackwood
P D Coleridge
T C Duncan Williams
Lord Horder
Galloway Kyle
Irene McArthur
Part of Michael Henry Archive
Published by "Weyfarers" March 2013; Five Seasons Press 2014
Annotated drafts including final draft. Includes "M S D S Annual Dinner" pamphlet 11 December 1935; note from Jeffery Wheatley, Editor of "Weyfarers", regarding publication
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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
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Eckert was a biographer of Edward Thomas and wrote to Watson about Thomas. Includes newspaper cuttings and an article Eckert wrote on James Guthrie and The Pear Tree Press. Includes pencil annotations
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Hanslip Fletcher [b.1874 d.1955] was an artist and the letters discuss his drawings. Includes pencil annotations
Marina, Princess (1906 - 1968)
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Typescript poems "Sunset on the Lake", "The Song of the Wind", "Souvenirs of Florence" attributed to Vernon Bartlett. Also includes a note by Rowland Watson stating he lived with Bartlett in Berlin from 1913-1914
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Part of Michael Henry Archive
Published by "The Guardian" 7 May 2011; "The Hippocrates Anthology" 2011; "British Journal of Psychiatry" October 2012; Five Seasons Press 2014. Accepted by "The Poetry of Medicine". Awarded first prize of £5,000 by The Hippocrates Prize 2011
Annotated drafts including final draft. Includes photocopy of the cheque awarded by The Hippocrates Prize; printed email from Donald Singer regarding the prize; photocopied poem published in "The Guardian"
Includes the patella hammer that inspired the poem, owned by Michael Henry's father
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
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
Milton and Lycidas lecture notes by Lascelles Abercrombie
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Handwritten lecture notes on the work of Milton and Lycidas. Includes loose sheet
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Articles and Publications 1930s
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
"A Personal Tribute to the Late Percival Gibbon and Edward Thomas" by Mrs Joseph Conrad. Published in The Bookman September 1930
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Refers to etchings, the poem "Calf Love", meetings with Alan Thomas [friend of Edward Thomas] and Helen Thomas, life since his wife died and his publications
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Exhibition programme for "Changing London & Other Drawings" at The London Museum November - December 1927 and two editions of "The Journal of The Royal Society of Arts" with articles "The Art of Hanslip Fletcher" and "London from the Pavement"
Letters to Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
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
Beatrice, Princess (1857 - 1944)
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)