Special Collections and Archives

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

Liese Holden - Frensham Heights

DP/MT/3/77
File
22 May 1996

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photocopy of receipt for "New Numbers"

DP/VD/5
Subseries
(c.1996) 8 May 1914

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photocopy of an original receipt for the periodical New Numbers for 7s 6d from Norman S Macdonnell. Handwritten by Catherine Abercrombie. Accompanied by a postcard from Lorna Beckett, later Chair of the Rupert Brooke Society

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

Exhibition poster for "A Frost Bouquet: Robert Frost, his family and the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature"

DP/VD/21
Subseries
1996

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Held at the McGregor Room-Alderman Library at the University of Virginia, May - June 1996

Letters and postcards from Edward Eastaway Thomas

DP/VD/31/2
File
16 March 1978 - 24 February 1996

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes essay "The Edward Thomas Birthday Walk" c.1982; copy of article "Edward Thomas & Battersea: Some Connections" published in The Wandsworth Historian December 1978; copy of Edward Thomas book reviews published in The Wandsworth Historian September 1979; letter accompanying correspondence between Rowland Watson and Julian Thomas between 1936 - 1948 given to Edward by Cherry Watson [now missing]; final letter from Edward's wife Ruth Dyson

Letter from Linda Hart, Chairman of the Friends of the Dymock Poets, to members with news and information on the Occasional Papers published by the Dymock Poets Archive and Study Centre, Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education

DP/FDP/2/3
Item
5 March 1996

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

With ink annotations by Linda Hart

Programme with supporting material for the Dymock Poets Weekend

DP/FDP/3/3
Item
29 - 30 June 1996

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes information on the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, John Drinkwater and the play "The End of the World" by Lascelles Abercrombie

Friends of the Dymock Poets Newsletter Issue 10

DP/FDP/5/10
Item
May 1996

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes notice for Annual General Meeting on 29 June 1996

Friends of the Dymock Poets Newsletter Issue 11

DP/FDP/5/11
Item
August 1996

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Programme for the "Society of Teachers of Speech and Drama Malvern Conference 1996: A Brief Literary Tour of the area around Malvern"

DP/FDP/3/4
Item
31 August 1996

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes information on the Dymock Poets

Friends of the Dymock Poets Newsletter Issue 9

DP/FDP/5/9
Item
April 1996

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Edward Eastaway Thomas and Ruth Dyson

DP/MT/3/166
File
9 December 1986 - 10 May 1996

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

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

Photocopies and prints of images of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

DP/VD/12
Subseries
(c.1996)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes photocopy of article "New book's tribute to the other Gibson" published in the Hexham Courant 19 January 1996. Images include studio shots of Gibson, pencil drawing of Gibson by Helen Wilson in 1928, Gibson aged 18, Geraldine and Wilfrid outside The Old Nail Shop, and interior images of The Old Nail Shop. With pencil annotations

Photographer unknown

Address given by Jeremy Purseglove at the funeral of Edward Eastaway Thomas

DP/ET/3/32
Item
c. February 1996

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Programme for "A Celebration of the Life of Edward Thomas" at the Royal College of Music, London

DP/ET/3/33
Item
23 April 1996

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Richard Emeny

DP/ET/4/1
File
18 March 1991 - 28 March 1996

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Letter from Richard Emeny to Ruth Dyson regarding a Melvin Tan concert

DP/ET/4/1/17
Item
28 March 1996

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Letter from Myfanwy Thomas to Ruth Dyson regarding Edward and Helen featuring on a TV programme about the First World War

DP/ET/4/7/10
Item
3 December 1996

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

"W W Gibson: The People's Poet" by Roger Hogg

DP/A/3/2
Item
10 June 1996

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Dymock Poets Archive & Study Centre Occasional Paper 2

Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education

"The Dymock Poets Archive & Study Centre" leaflet

DP/A/4/8
Item
3 July 1996

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photocopy of article "Singing the praises of Gloucester" by Donald Davie

DP/BD/1/39
Item
(c.1996) 1 September 1996

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

On Ivor Gurney. From "The Independent"

"John Jeffreys' settings of the poems from "Whin" by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson" by Colin Scott-Sutherland

DP/JC/1/6/1
Item
1996

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes note from Colin to Jeff Cooper

"A Clear Eye: The Criticism of Edward Thomas" by Sean Street

DP/ETF/7/36
Item
11 May 1996

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Script of the Edward Thomas Seminar given at Golden Square Books, London

Barbara London

DP/MT/3/99
File
15 December 1996

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

"Greenway" school project by Helen Naylor, age 11

DP/BD/1/40
Item
1996

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

On Greenway and the Dymock Poets

Photocopy of newspaper obituary for Edward Eastaway Thomas

DP/ET/1/73
Item
(c.1996) 6 February 1996

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the Daily Telegraph, author unknown. Edward Eastaway Thomas died on 22 January 1996

Photocopy of newspaper article "Cracking Hitler's code", obituary for Edward Eastaway Thomas by Dan Van Der Vat

DP/ET/1/74
Item
(c.1996) 6 February 1996

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication unknown

Events and Talks

DP/ET/3
Subseries
(c.1990s) 1938 - 23 April 1996

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Myfanwy Thomas

DP/ET/4/7
File
3 January 1978 - 3 December 1996

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Friends of the Dymock Poets membership leaflet

DP/FDP/6/1
Item
c.1995

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

With background information on the Dymock Poets

Sandy Ferguson

DP/MT/3/58
File
9 August - 19 September 1995

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Leaflet for "The Dymock Poets Archive & Study Centre"

DP/A/4/1
Item
c.1995

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Article "The Sound of Trees" published in a Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education magazine

DP/A/4/2
Item
c.1995

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Refers to the photographs taken by Senior Lecturer Trudie Ballantyne and inspired by Dymock

Article "Dymock and friends" in "Newslink: The Alumni Magazine of Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education"

DP/A/4/3
Item
Spring 1995

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Volume 2 Number 1

Poster for "Once They Lived in Gloucestershire: A Dymock Poets Anthology" by Linda Hart

DP/BD/11/7
Item
1995

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Green Branch Press

Edward Thomas Fellowship

DP/ET/2
Subseries
6 July 1976 - c.1995

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Edward Thomas Fellowship miscellaneous

DP/ET/2/3
File
c. September 1980 - c.1995

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Map with route and details of "An Expedition into the World of Edward Thomas"

DP/ET/3/29
Item
25 July 1995

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Subtitle "accompanied by Anne Mallinson with readings by Meg Wynn Owen & Matthew Lloyd Davies". Part of the Demarco European Art Foundation International Summer School 1995

Letters from Teresa Benson-Colpi to Edward Eastaway Thomas on speaking about Edward Thomas as part of the Demarco European Art Foundation International Summer School