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- 1930-c.1956
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Comical drawings of Rowland and Cherry Watson on postcards and paper. Includes a postcard with illustration by Eric G McColl entitled "A Page from the Life of a P S U". With ink annotations
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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"
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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
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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
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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
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
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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
"Poems of Men and Hours" by John Drinkwater
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Published by David Nutt, London, first edition. Inscribed "To Francis W Bedford from John Drinkwater Xmas 1911"
"Shakespeare's Songs" by William Shakespeare
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Published by The Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford upon Avon. Limited edition copy 199 of 500. Inscribed "Tanya from John Drinkwater 1934"
"1914 and Other Poems" by Rupert Brooke
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Published by Sidgwick & Jackson Limited, London
"Letters of John Keats to his Family and Friends" edited by Sidney Colvin
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Published by Macmillan and Company Limited, London. Inscribed "John Drinkwater for Tanya 4.X.33"
"One-Act Plays for Secondary Schools" edited by James Plaisted Webber and Hanson Hart Webster
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Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Pencil inscription "Tanya Moiseiwitsch"
"Kenilworth" by Sir Walter Scott
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Published by Macmillan and Company Limited, London. Inscribed "Tanya with much love from Big John: Christmas 1926 Wallington"
"Patriotism in Literature" by John Drinkwater
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Published by Williams and Norgate, London. Inscribed "Tanya from John Drinkwater August 1932"
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Published by Macmillan and Company Limited, London. Inscribed "Tanya with much love Big John: Christmas 1926 Wallington"
"Mary Barton and Other Tales" by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Published by John Murray, London. Inscribed "To Tanya on her fourteenth birthday these eight volumes of Mrs Gaskell with love and every good wish for many many birthdays to come, from her affectionate friend Big John: London December 3rd 1928"
"A Musical Critic's Holiday" by Ernest Newman
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Published by Alfred A Knopf, New York. Inscribed by Ernest Newman "To John Drinkwater from Ernest Newman [?] 31". Also inscribed by John Drinkwater "pages 37-52 being missing, E N gave me another copy, so I give this with my love to Tanya: John Drinkwater Sept 1931"
"Anthology of Modern British Poetry" selected by Levin L Schückling
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Published by Berhard Tauchnitz, Lepizig. Inscribed "For Tanya with love from Big [?] John Drinkwater"
"The Week-End Book" edited by Vera Mendel, Francis Meynell and John Goss
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Published by The Nonesuch Press, London. Inscribed "For darling Tanya with lots of love from Auntie Jeff Christmas 1930. One horrible omission me enrages - no mention of J D within these pages"
"The Riddle and Other Stories" by Walter de la Mare
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Published by Faber and Faber, London. Inscribed "Tanya Moiseiwitch love from John"
"The Poems of Sidney Godolphin" edited by William Dighton
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Published by The Clarendon Press, Oxford. Inscribed "Tanya from John Drinkwater Nov 1934"
"Poetry and Dogma" by John Drinkwater
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Published text of the Arthur Skemp Memorial Lecture at the University of Bristol delivered on 29 January 1931. Inscribed "Tanya from Big John Drinkwater 2.7.31"
"The Mabinogion" translated by Charlotte Guest
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Published by J M Dent and Sons Limited, London. Inscribed "Daisy darling from John her Jonathan [?] September 1932"
"Summer Harvest: Poems 1924-1933" by John Drinkwater
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Published by Sidgwick and Jackson Limited, London. Inscribed "To Tanya with love from John Drinkwater November 1933"
"This Troubled World" by John Drinkwater
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Published by Columbia University Press, New York. Inscribed "Tanya with love from John Drinkwater: Highgate Easter 1933"
"Behold, This Dreamer" by Walter de la Mare
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Published by Faber and Faber, London. Inscribed "Tatty & Felix from John"
"Birmingham Repertory Theatre: The Playhouse and the Man" by Thomas C Kemp
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Published by Cornish Brothers Limited, Birmingham
"Robert E Lee: a play in nine scenes" by John Drinkwater
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Published by Sidgwick & Jackson, London
"Oliver Cromwell: a play" by John Drinkwater
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Published by Sidgwick & Jackson Limited, London
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Published by The Cranbrook Tower Press, London. Signed limited edition copy number 100A of 999. Inscribed "May 17th 1966: Daisy Kennedy Drinkwater: (and, later on, for Tanya Moiseiwitch Krish)"
Handmade Shakespeare book cabinet by John Drinkwater
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Handmade bookcase housing the following Shakespeare pocket editions:
A Midsummer Night's Dream
As You Like It
Coriolanus
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
King John
King Henry IV Part II
King Henry V
King Lear
King Richard II
King Richard III
Macbeth
Measure for Measure
Much Ado About Nothing
Shakespeare's Hamlet Prince of Denmark
Shakespeare's Macbeth
Shakespeare's Pericles
Shakespeare's Timon of Athens
The Merchant of Venice
The Tempest
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Venus and Adonis
Volumes inscribed "Tanya from Big John July 1928" and "Tanya from John D 1931". Includes handwritten label "John Drinkwater made this bookcase of is Shakespeare collection when in Birmingham (or Nottingham) & gave it to Tanya Moiseiwitsch" and small image of a pencil drawing of Drinkwater's profile
"The Augustan Books of Modern Poetry" box edited by Edward Thompson and Humbert Wolfe
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Velvet-lined box containing the following pamphlets published by Ernest Benn Limited, London:
Matthew Arnold
Hilaire Belloc
Emily Brontë
Rupert Brooke
Robert Burns
G K Chesterton
W H Davies
Walter de la Mare
John Donne
Wilfrid Gibson
Alice Meynell
Robert Louis Stevenson
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Alfred, Lorn Tennyson
Edward Thomas
Francis Thompson
W B Yeats
Woodcut print of a tiger by Maxwell Armfield
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Signed in pencil "Maxwell Armfield"
Handwritten poem "The Heresy of an Elder or Not Believing in Fairies" by John Drinkwater
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Signed and dated. Written in Hungerford
Handwritten poems E[?] and "The Little Paradise" by John Drinkwater
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Written at Brampton. Signed and annotated "For Tanya"
Handwritten poem "The Fool" by John Drinkwater
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With crossings-out and reworkings. Annotated "Brampton Summer 1932" and "For Tanya for Christmas 1932 from John Drinkwater: Highgate"
Handwritten poem "An Englishman's Song" by John Drinkwater
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Signed and annotated "For Tanya: John D: Finished at Brampton 14.vi.32"
Handwritten stanza of poetry written by John Drinkwater on the back of a Lords cricket card
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Written in pencil. Card for an England versus South Africa cricket match on 29 June 1935
Reads "Thus I survey the varied scene, And meditate upon the time, When proud Elizabeth was queen, and Shakespeare made his golden rhyme"
"Battle" by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
With an introduction by Kelsey Thornton. Published by The Cyder Press
Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education
With an introduction by Richard Emeny. Published by The Cyder Press
Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education
"The Country" by Edward Thomas
With an introduction by Stan Smith. Published by The Cyder Press
Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education
"The Farmer's Bride" by Charlotte Mew
With an introduction by Deborah Parsons. Published by The Cyder Press
Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education
"Cyder. A Poem in Two Books" by John Philips
Edited by John Goodridge and J C Pellicer. With an introduction by J C Pellicer
Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education
University of Gloucestershire
"From Dock Green to Life on Mars: Continuity and Change in TV Copland" by Professor Frank Leishman
University of Gloucestershire Inaugural Lecture number 1, delivered on 7 May 2008. Published by The Cyder Press
"Learning for Life: An Educational Agenda for the Third Millennium" by Professor Patricia Broadfoot
University of Gloucestershire Inaugural Lecture number 2, delivered on 29 October 2008. Published by The Cyder Press
University of Gloucestershire Inaugural Lecture number 4, delivered on 10 December 2008. Published by The Cyder Press
"Laurie Lee: The Well-Loved Stranger" by Valerie Grove
The Laurie Lee Memorial Lecture number 1. Published by The Cyder Press
Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education
"William Barnes" by Andrew Motion
The Laurie Lee Memorial Lecture number 2. Published by The Cyder Press
Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education