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Notice for BBC Radio 4 programme "No One So Much As You" on Edward and Helen Thomas and BBC 2 TV programme "Network: Edward Thomas"

DP/ETF/4/18
Item
15 September 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Notice written by Alan Martin

Radio programme broadcast 24 September 1978 and TV programme broadcast 30 September 1978

Notice for a public meeting of the Friends of the Dymock Poets on 9 September 1993

DP/BD/8/1
Item
27 August 1993

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the "Malvern Gazette & Ledbury Reporter". Refers to another name for the Friends of the Dymock Poets, the Robert Frost Cottage Appeal Executive Trust

Notes on meeting Robert Frost

DP/GF/6/2
File
June 1957

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Full notes of Eleanor Farjeon's last meeting with Robert Frost during his return to England in 1957 which were used as the basis for her foreward to Frost's posthumously published volume of poetry, "You Come Too" [original title "Come With Me"]. Written in Farjeon's hand in the margin "Robert Frost - written rapidly an[d)] inconsecutively - must be arranged in its order - Try to describe his way of talking"

Notes made by Edward Eastaway Thomas for a talk given to the Weald Literature Society

DP/ET/3/25
Item
4 June 1994

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Notecard from Edward Eastaway Thomas to Mrs Jones regarding visit

DP/ET/4/11/17
Item
13 August 1983

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Notecard features poem Swedes by Edward Thomas

Notecard from Cherry Watson to Edward Eastaway Thomas regarding knee operation and visits

DP/ET/4/11/21
Item
25 April 1984

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Notecard from Anne Mallinson to Edward Eastaway Thomas regarding surprise presentation of a plate and card

DP/ET/4/11/15
Item
11 March 1982

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Notecard features poem "Thaw" by Edward Thomas

Note from Wilfrid Wilson Gibson to his son Michael

DP/MG/1/2/1
Item
c.1930s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Handwritten poem written by Gibson to his son Michael

I've taken my own way through life and so
If you don't follow in my steps, dear son,
But blaze your own trail, 'twill be good to know
At least you're doing just what I have done

Note and Poem "The Golden Room" by Keith Armstrong of Northern Voices

DP/BD/3/17
Item
1 October 2007

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Relates to Wilfrid Gibson

Ninth Edward Thomas Birthday Walk itinerary

DP/ETF/2/1/9
Item
1 March 1981

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes map of the area, press release, mounted newspaper cutting "Tribute to Edward Thomas" and photographs of attendees of the walk [photographer Donald C Eade, Petersfield]. With ink annotations

Ninth Edward Thomas Autumn Walk itinerary

DP/ETF/2/2/9
Item
1988

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Mickleham, Surrey. Includes map of the route

Nineteenth Edward Thomas Birthday Walk itinerary

DP/ETF/2/1/19
Item
3 March 1991

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes map of the route

Nigel Williams - Bedfordshire Youth Theatre

DP/MT/3/186
File
22 May - 30 July 1987

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Next of kin notification postcard for Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

DP/MG/3/2
Item
14 November 1917

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Postcard informing Geraldine Gibson that she has been noted as Gibson's next of kin on his appointment to the Army Service Corps. Includes a handwritten clarification that this does not constitute a will or confer right to the soldier's property

Newspaper obituary of Ralph Hodgson written by Helen Thomas

DP/ET/1/3
Item
c.1962

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Newspaper obituary for Robert Eckert Jr

DP/MT/1/8/6
Item
4 November 1966

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Times. Discusses his interest in Edward Thomas

Newspaper obituary and transcript copy for Helen Thomas

DP/MT/1/8/7
Item
April 1967

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Times

Newspaper cuttings reporting the unveiling of the Edward Thomas memorial stone at Steep and tablet at Berryfield Cottage, Steep

DP/MT/1/5/7
Item
3 - 8 October 1937

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Features photographs of Helen Thomas and John Masefield at both events

Newspaper cuttings regarding the steep memorial and plaque at 61 Shelgate Road, Battersea

DP/RW/3/2
File
4 April 1936 - 10 May 1949

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

Newspaper cuttings of letters from Gwen John [niece of John Williams] to the Editor regarding Edward Thomas

DP/MT/1/7/1
Item
c.1950s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes "Why He Left Ancient Monuments Commission"; "An Edward Thomas Memory"; "Edward Thomas Book for the Spitfire"; "Edward Thomas Memorial"; "How Edward Thomas Died"; "Edward Thomas: Some Swansea Reminiscences"

Newspaper Cuttings and Photographs

DP/ETF/2/4
File
1974 - c.2000s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Newspaper Cuttings

DP/RW/1/3
File
1917-1970

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Newspaper Cuttings

DP/RW/8/6
File
1935, 1965-1968

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

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

Newspaper cutting with radio listings for programme "No One So Much As You: Helen and Edward Thomas: A Love Story"

DP/MT/1/9/26
Item
27 September 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication unknown. Broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Compiled and introduced by Michael Ffinch

Newspaper cutting with poem "From Steep Church" by Frederick Fryer

DP/MT/1/9/20
Item
1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication unknown. Written in memory of Edward Thomas

Newspaper cutting with parody of poem Adlestrop reflecting the Beeching railway cuts

DP/MT/1/8/2
Item
31 March 1963

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Sunday Telegraph

Newspaper cutting "Poet's mystery 'cottage' location riddle solved"

DP/VD/8
Subseries
22 May 1996

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Letter from John Morris written to the Stroud News and Journal. Refers to the location of John Masefield's cottage at Pinbury Park, Sapperton, where he lived 1932-1940

Newspaper cutting "Poetry and prose in nature"

DP/MT/1/9/36
Item
12 January 1979

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the Midhurst & Petworth Observer. Details a meeting of Bognor Regis Natural Science where Mr Leslie Norris read extracts including Robert Frost and Edward Thomas

Newspaper cutting on "The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas" edited by R George Thomas

DP/MT/1/9/35
Item
1 January 1979

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Guardian Weekly

Newspaper clipping "Wilfrid Gibson"

DP/MG/2/16
Item
1 June 1962

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Letter published in the Yorkshire Post from B S Page, the Keeper of the Brotherton Collection, University of Leeds, commenting on the donation by D U McGrigor-Phillips [Dorothy Una Ratcliffe] of a collection of letters and poems by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

Newspaper clipping regarding programmes on Newent FM's second anniversary

DP/BD/5/12
Item
22 March 2001

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes programme on "The Dymock Poets: the people and the poetry". Possibly from The Forester

Newspaper clipping of a crossword with "Wilfrid Gibson" as an answer

DP/MG/2/5
Item
c.1930s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication unknown

Newspaper book review "Edward Mendelson: Early Auden"

DP/ET/1/95
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undated

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication unknown. Refers to Edward Thomas and his poem "Lights Out"

Newspaper articles on the Dymock Poets, St Mary's Church in Dymock and May Hill

DP/VD/13
Subseries
1994 - 1996

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Article "A literary 'footnote'" by George Henderson published in The Citizen 23 December 1994
Photocopy of article "To the top of the singing hill" by Gerald Isaaman published in The Daily Mail's Weekend magazine 25 November 1995
Article "St Mary's draws poetic pilgrims" by George Henderson published in The Citizen 14 September 1996

Newspaper articles marking centenary of the birth of Edward Thomas

DP/MT/1/9/23
Item
9 March 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the East Hampshire Post

Newspaper article with letter "The England of Edward Thomas" by Kim Taplin

DP/MT/1/9/49
Item
21 December 1979

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Times Literary Supplement

Newspaper article "Wilfrid Gibson, people's poet"

DP/MG/2/15
Item
28 May 1962

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Guardian, author unknown. Claims Krindlesyke to have been his masterpiece, after which "the force of his art seemed to have declined". It dismisses his inclusion as a Georgian Poet, claiming his methods and aims to be quite different to the other poets within the group. It mentions his association with Lascelles Abercrombie

Newspaper article "Wilfrid Gibson"

DP/MG/2/13
Item
27 May 1962

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Sunday Telegraph. Obituary for Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

Newspaper article "Where the wood ends" by Ian Sansom

DP/VD/59
Subseries
6 November 2004

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Review of "Collected Poems" by Edward Thomas. Published in The Guardian Review supplement

Copeland, Tim

Newspaper article "Where a poet lost his melancholy" by Arthur Garrett

DP/ET/2/2/3
Item
2 March 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the East Hampshire Post. Includes biographical details of Edward Thomas and details of the birthday walk 1978

Newspaper article "Walking through the mist with a poet in mind"

DP/ET/2/2/9
Item
6 March 1987

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the Alton and Petersfield Herald, author unknown. Refers to the 1987 Edward Thomas birthday walk and the presentation of an illuminated poem to Bedales School

Newspaper article "Walk honours memory of Hampshire Poet"

DP/ET/2/2/2
Item
10 March 1977

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the East Hampshire Post, author unknown. Refers to the walk on the 99th anniversary of Edward Thomas's birth

Newspaper article "Village Tribute to War Poet"

DP/MT/1/9/21
Item
1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Author and publication unknown. Describes events in Steep to mark the centenary of Edward Thomas's birth on 3 March 1878

Newspaper article "Under Storm's Wing by Helen Thomas"

DP/ET/1/93
Item
undated

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication unknown. Refers to the publication of "Under Storm's Wing"

Newspaper article "Three days of tributes to Edward Thomas... a Post picture report"

DP/ET/2/2/4
Item
9 March 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the East Hampshire Post, author unknown. Includes the itinerary and photographs from the 1978 birthday walk

Newspaper article "The poetry of the trenches"

DP/MT/1/9/8
Item
29 September 1972

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the Times Literary Supplement, author unknown. Reviews the book "Out of Battle" by Jon Silkin

Newspaper article "The poem printed in a bus shelter" by Simon Hoggart

DP/MT/1/9/45
Item
28 July 1979

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Guardian. Discusses Edward Thomas's poem "Adlestrop". With pencil annotations

Newspaper article "The man who talks about the perigrine machine" by David Holloway

DP/GF/1/2
Item
25 May 1957

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the News Chronicle. An interview with Robert Frost conducted during his visit to England in 1957

Newspaper article "The life of the poet in chapter and verse"

DP/ET/1/71
Item
16 December 1994

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Herald, author unknown. Refers to the meeting of the Selbourne Circle of Rural Writers and the Edward Thomas Fellowship at "the pub with no name" alias The White Horse, Priors Dean, for a special reading of "Up the Wind" by Edward Eastaway Thomas

Newspaper article "The hack who turned poet" by David Wright

DP/ET/1/39
Item
20 October 1985

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Telegraph. Review of "Edward Thomas: A Portrait" by R George Thomas

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