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Correspondence regarding the sale of fifty seven letters from Edward Thomas to John Freeman

Sold at Sotheby's on 24 July 1979. Now held in the Berg Collection at New York Public Library. Includes:

Letters written to Alan Martin on the sale from Bertram Rota Limited booksellers, Encounter, the Imperial War Museum, Privy Council Office and the Cabinet Office

Letter from Myfanwy Thomas to Alan Martin including draft letters to "English Literary Gents" and the Keeper of Manuscripts at New York Public Library

Publication "Encounter" for July 1979 including an essay "A Neglected Responsibility: Contemporary Literary MSS" by Philip Larkin

Correspondence to Richard Emeny

Respondents include:
Dwight Eddins
Martha Vogeler
National Library of Wales
Ken Kirk
Roy Carnon
Richard Lowndes
Sean Street
Margaret Thompson
Heather Norris Nicholson and Steve Nicholson
Edward Cawston Thomas
Maureen Silver

Articles and Publications 1960s

"The Poets of Steep" by David Gill published in Hampshire, December 1965

Photocopy of "An Engraved Window to Edward Thomas and Helen his Wife" by Laurence Whistler published in Book Collecting & Library Monthly number 16, August 1969. Includes letter from Myfanwy Thomas explaining the origins of the memorial window appeal

Articles and Publications 1940s

"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

Colin Thornton

Letters and notecards from Colin G Thornton to Edward Eastaway Thomas and Ruth Dyson. Mentions opening of the "Poets Way"

Professor R George Thomas

Letters from Professor R George Thomas [Professor at University College, Cardiff and no relation to Edward Thomas] to Edward Eastaway Thomas and Ruth Dyson. Includes leaflet for his book "Edward Thomas: A Portrait", and typescripts for talks at the Annual Dylan Thomas Lecture at Swansea in December 1988 and "Outside the gates of the world: Edward Thomas, a poet for today" at an unknown location in 1991

Martha Vogeler

Letters from Martha Vogeler and Albert Vogeler to Myfanwy Thomas and Edward Eastaway Thomas. With pencil and ink annotations

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