Photograph of exterior of house "Gowan Bank" at Letchworth
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- c.1930s
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Annotated on reverse
Photographer unknown
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Photograph of exterior of house "Gowan Bank" at Letchworth
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Annotated on reverse
Photographer unknown
Photograph of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson with his children in a garden
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Annotated on reverse
Photographer unknown
Photograph of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
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Taken outside next to a fence post. Annotated on reverse
Photographer unknown
Photograph of the painting "Oaitepeha Bay, Tahiti" by William Hodges
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Annotated on reverse "For Wilfrid from Eddie: a photograph of Rupert's favourite picture at Admiralty House"
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Photograph of John Pattison Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson's father
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Mounted
Address book of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
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Contains the contact details for a wide range of contemporary literary figures and organisations as well as other family and friends
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Includes stanza "Heather land and bent land, Black land and white, God bring me to Northumberland, The land of my delight". Includes handwritten list of illustrated characters by Gibson on reverse
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Indenture signed by Rupert Brooke's mother Mary Ruth Brooke assigning copyright for Brooke's works "Poems", "1914 and Other Poems", "Selected Poems", "The Old Vicarage, Grantchester", "Collected Poems", "Letters from America", and "John Webster and the Elizabethan Drama" to Gibson, Abercrombie and de la Mare according to written instruction from Rupert Brooke who died intestate. The indenture states that this letter also contained "other matters of a very private nature and has since been destroyed by the Administratix" [Mary Ruth Brooke]
Draft poems "Mass Meeting" and "The Promontory"
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Working draft handwritten in pencil. Possibly written by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Demobilization certificate for Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
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Transfers Gibson to the Army Reserve. States he listed in the Royal Army Service Corps on 24 June 1916. Includes original envelope
Protection certificate and certificate of identity for Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
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Form excusing holder from remaining with his colours for a 28 day period
Wilfrid Gibson's "Certificate of employment during the war"
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Form describing a soldier's work during military service in order to help him find employment after de-mobilisation. It lists Gibson's rank as "Private" and regimental employment as "Clerking" from January 1917 to January 1918, adding the comment that he was an "efficient and reliable clerk". The form is signed by Gibson
Next of kin notification postcard for Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
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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
Typescript of poem "To Wilfrid Gibson"
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Stanzas include "No Pious Dream", "The Tale of Toil" and "Deaths Many"
Typed extract reporting reluctance of Wilfrid Gibson to show his work to Walter de la Mare
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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
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Includes a description of how Brooke wrote poetry. With ink annotations
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson's certificate of unfitness to enlist in His Majesty's Forces
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Signed by the Medical Officer and Recruitment Officer
Newspaper article "Narrative in Verse"
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Published in The Daily Telegraph, author unknown. A review of Coldknuckles praising its "racy narrative" and comparing his characterisation to Thomas Hardy. With pencil annotations
Newspaper article "Dramatic Poem"
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Published in John O'London, author "W M". A review of "Coldknuckles", praising the "touch of magic in the description of his opening chapter"
Newspaper article "Mr Wilfrid Gibson's New Work"
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Publication and author unknown. Review of "Coldknuckles" praising its "pace...sureness...and characterisation"
Article "Wilfrid Gibson" by Walter de la Mare
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Published in "New Literature". Review of "Coming and Going", praising Gibson's "profound sympathy with, and understanding of the men whose destiny it is to make their living against long odds, in danger, difficulty, and often in despair"
Newspaper clipping of a crossword with "Wilfrid Gibson" as an answer
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Publication unknown
Newspaper article "Mr Wilfrid Gibson's "Krindlesyke": A Northumbrian Elizabethan""
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Published in the Southport Guardian, author unknown. A review of Krindlesyke, praising its "amazing vitality...elemental vigour... and exuberance of speech and action". The cutting was forwarded to Wilfrid Wilson Gibson by Macmillan & Co. Ltd. and is glued to headed paper
Article "Wilfred [sic] Wilson Gibson: Poet of Tenement and Trench" by Reverend John Haynes Holmes
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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"
Newspaper announcement for the marriage of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson and Geraldine Townshend
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Publication unknown. The marriage took place on 9 December 1913 at St Bartholomew's Church, Dublin
Newspaper clipping "Wilfrid Gibson"
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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 article "Wilfrid Gibson, people's poet"
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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 "Mr Wilfrid Gibson: Trenchant Poet of the Poor"
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Published in The Times, author unknown. Obituary for Wilfrid Wilson Gibson that praises him as the "poet of the inarticulate poor" and comments on his relationship with the other Dymock Poets and on his success in America
Newspaper article "Wilfrid Gibson"
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Published in The Sunday Telegraph. Obituary for Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Newspaper article "In Good Voice" by J C Trewin
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Published in The Observer. A review of "Coldknuckles" praising it as an "uncommonly expert story-poem, own cousin to the swift, surging narratives of Masefield". With pencil annotations
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Published in the Manchester Guardian, author "H I'A F". A review of "Coldknuckles" praising Gibson's handling of the Northumbrian dialect. The cutting was forwarded to Frederick Mullen Ltd. and is glued to a pre-printed form
Newspaper article "Northern Poem is Masterpiece" by David Martin
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Published in Reynolds Sunday. A review of "Coldknuckles" praising Gibson's use of "regional lore and dialect", whilst always maintaining a high level of "imagination and wordmanship"
Newspaper article "Mr Gibson's Poetry"
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Published in the Times Literary Supplement, author unknown. A review of "Daily Bread", "Fires" and "Womenkind", with a review of Edward Thomas's "The Icknield Way" on the reverse
Letter from David I Masson, The Brotherton Library, to Michael Gibson
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Letter explaining the terms of deposit concerning access to the Wilfrid Wilson Gibson papers donated by Mrs McGrigor Phillips [Dorothy Una Ratcliffe] in 1958
Letter from Christopher Hassall to Michael Gibson
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Further condolences on the death of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Letter from Christopher Hassall to Michael Gibson
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Expressing sympathy at the death of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson. He praises his "sweetness of nature" and "gentle, true poetic gift"
Letter from Christopher Hassall to Michael Gibson
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Thanking Michael for permission to publish letters from Wilfrid Wilson Gibson to Edward Marsh. Refers to trip to Wales to give recitals on Dylan Thomas and giving the Edward Marsh book to the publishers after 5 years and 1 month
Letter from Christopher Hassall to Michael Gibson
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Asking for permission quote from letters sent from Wilfrid Wilson Gibson to Edward Marsh for inclusion in his book
Letter from Christopher Hassall to Michael Gibson
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Gives thanks for the loan of a book and sketch of Edward Marsh drawn by Violet Duchess of Rutland, owned by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson and which appears on page 96 of Hassall's biography of Edward Marsh
Letter from Christopher Hassall to Michael Gibson
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Mentions a visit to 10 Downing Street which "may prove productive" and a form Wilfrid Wilson Gibson may receive relating to his finances that "may turn out to be of real importance to him"
Note from Wilfrid Wilson Gibson to his son Michael
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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
Letter from Dorothy Una Ratcliffe to Wilfrid Wilson Gibson describing a meeting with Hugh MacDiarmid
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Written from The Percy Arms Hotel, Otterburn, Northumberland. Recalls a recent meeting with the Scottish poet, Hugh MacDiarmid where they discussed Gibson's work, for which he expressed a "great liking" and Roy Campbell's which he "loathes". Dorothy Una Ratcliffe was editor of the Northern Broadsheet and a friend of Wilfrid's who was later to deposit a large collection of his material in the Brotherton Library, Leeds
Letter from Eustace Morgan to Wilfrid Wilson Gibson regarding Robert Frost's visit to England
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Morgan recalls Frost as being "half farmer, half professor"
Christmas greeting from John and Daisy Drinkwater, probably to Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
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A printed poem by John Drinkwater, translated from the German of Edward Morike. Includes a handwritten message by John Drinkwater "From John and Daisy Drinkwater: Christmas 1924"
"Rupert Brooke 1887-1915: Towards a complete checklist of his publications" compiled by Jeff Cooper
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Published by White Sheep Press
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Published by White Sheep Press
"An Index to Poetry in Selected British and Irish Periodicals 1900-1925" by Jeffrey Cooper
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Two volumes, loose sheets. Thesis submitted for the Fellowship of the Library Association
Obituaries for Lascelles Abercrombie
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Press cuttings from various newspapers
Audio cassette with recording of Catherine Abercrombie interview
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Interview with Catherine Abercrombie recounting her memories of the Dymock Poets. Interviewed by Jeff Cooper
Audio cassette with audio recording of Catherine Abercrombie interview
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Interview with Catherine Abercrombie recounting her memories of the Dymock Poets. Interviewed by Leigh Crutchley