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Quotes Gibson "I didn't show [the songs] to de la Mare because they weren't finished when he was here, and anyhow he is quite out of sympathy with my work at anytime... But it is better to have a friend than to write the loveliest song in the world". With ink annotations

Typed extract recounting a visit by Wilfrid Gibson to Rupert Brooke at Grantchester

DP/MG/3/10
Item
c.1950s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes a description of how Brooke wrote poetry. With ink annotations

Typed copy of letter from Edward Eastaway Thomas to Archie Miles regarding possible Edward Thomas book project

DP/ET/4/7/9
Item
10 July 1993

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Typed bibliography of the works by and criticism of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson compiled by Roger Hogg

DP/VD/55/7
Item
1992

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes photocopy of letter from Roger Hogg to John Chirgwin regarding the bibliography, 6 July 1992

Two photographs of Roy Palmer [Chair of the Friends of the Dymock Poets] with Myfanwy Thomas, taken at Myfanwy's home in Berkshire 24 November 2002, taken by Pat Palmer

DP/VD/42
Subseries
2002, 2014

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes accompanying letter from Pat Palmer, 17 June 2014

Two letters regarding Edward Eastaway Thomas's address at the Finzi Seminar, University of Reading

DP/ET/3/12
Item
24 November 1983

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Received from "Jan" and James Thompson, Librarian at the University of Reading

Two audio cassette recordings of "Kings and Queens" and "A Nursery in the Nineties" by Eleanor and Herbert Farjeon

DP/VD/25
Subseries
c.2000s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Kings and Queens was produced for the 50th anniversary of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II with contribution by Anne Harvey. Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 1 June 2003

A Nursery in the Nineties is the dramatised memoir of Eleanor Farjeon. Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour 26-30 May 2003. Contains episodes 1 - 3 of 5

Twelfth Edward Thomas Birthday Walk itinerary

DP/ETF/2/1/12
Item
4 March 1984

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes map of the route, newspaper cuttings and photograph of the walkers taken at South Harting [photographer unknown]. Annotated

TV listing for programme "Poems in their Place"

DP/ETF/1/6/5
Item
c. March 1982

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Possibly published in the Radio Times. John Arlott presents poems by Edward Thomas. Broadcast on BBC 2 on 12 March 1982

"Transcript of unsigned M.S. discovered in cavity in large [?] stone erected on "Shoulder of Mutton Hill""

DP/ET/9/1
Item
1939

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Description of note found by Edward Eastaway Thomas. Reads "in loving remembrance of my dear dad who help[ed] to build his old home, also the big one here he climb[ed] this hill to eat his bread & cheese, Steep his old home. 12 children born in Steep and neberhood [sic], died Dec, 1936 aged 91 and 9 month"

Transcript of poems "February Afternoon", "The Spoilers", "The First Snow of Winter", "Christmas" and "To Cease Upon the Midnight"

DP/ETF/7/12
Item
c.1980s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Transcript of letter from Helen Thomas to Janet

DP/ETF/7/10
Item
c.1980s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Original posted 18 March 1904. Congratulates Janet on her new baby and stating she herself "was meant just to be a bearer of children"

Transcript of Edward Thomas article "The Hay Wagon"

DP/ET/5/1/2
Item
(c.1980) 8 October 1904

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in "The Week's Survey"

Transcript of Edward Thomas article "Free Traders on the Road"

DP/ET/5/1/4
Item
(c.1980s) 25 April 1910

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Daily Chronicle

Transcript of address given by R George Thomas at the launch of his biography "Edward Thomas: A portrait"

DP/ETF/4/35
Item
27 September 1985

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Held at The Selborne Bookshop

Transcript for radio programme "A Closer Look: Edward Thomas" broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 28 February 1982

DP/ETF/4/28
Item
March 1982

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Presented by Vernon Scannell

Includes letters from the BBC, Vernon Scannell and Myfanwy Thomas

Tony Trowles - Westminster Abbey

DP/MT/3/173
File
29 April 1998

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Tony and Ruth Noakes

DP/MT/3/119
File
15 March 1994 - 1 May 1995

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Title of "UpFront" from the Observer Magazine

DP/ET/1/15
Item
20 November 1977

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Subtitle "Keeping you in touch with what's new, what's happening, what's coming up - and whatever catches our fancy" underlined with note by Edward Eastaway Thomas "Just what ET is not"

Tim Cross - Armistice Festival

DP/MT/3/46
File
29 June 1988

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Three mounted newspaper cuttings advertising radio programmes on Edward Thomas

DP/RW/1/3/2
Item
1960, 1966

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Advertising "Edward Thomas" by Frank Baker on 16 March 1960, "... A Poet Still" by Frank Baker on 16 March 1966 and "The Poet and Nature" by Harry Coombes on 2 April 1966

""Those are celestial chimney pots": a reading of John Drinkwater" by Lynn Parker

DP/A/3/6
Item
18 June 1998

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Dymock Poets Archive & Study Centre Occasional Paper 6

Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education

"This Troubled World" by John Drinkwater

DP/TM/1/21
Item
1933

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Columbia University Press, New York. Inscribed "Tanya with love from John Drinkwater: Highgate Easter 1933"

Thirteenth Edward Thomas Birthday Walk itinerary

DP/ETF/2/1/13
Item
3 March 1985

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes map of the route

Third Edward Thomas Birthday Walk itinerary

DP/ETF/2/1/3
Item
2 March 1975

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes card featuring the Robin Guthrie lino-cut of Edward Thomas with newspaper cuttings mentioning the birthday walks of 1974 and 1976, and newspaper clipping on the death of Bronwen Thomas [later Bronwen Simmons], 12 April 1975. With ink annotations

Third Edward Thomas Autumn Walk itinerary

DP/ETF/2/2/2
Item
26 September 1982

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

"The Marlborough Downs Walk". Includes map of the route

"They Walked and Talked: A Dymock Poets' Collection" DVD

DP/VD/50
Subseries
c.2015

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

DVD of readings of poetry of the Dymock Poets. Filmed by Rachel Plant and produced by Cate Luck. 30 minutes running time

Canham, Ray

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