National Library of Wales Archives and Manuscripts

Household poems: [1 Bronwen],

424/2/106/1.
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1916, Mar. 29-Apr. 6 /

First line: If I should ever by chance grow rich. Written 'at Little Warley and Hare Hall'. Manuscript draft in pencil.

Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917

February afternoon [sonnet 2],

424/2/86/1.
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1916, Feb. 7-8 /

First line: Men heard this roar of parleying starlings, saw. Manuscript draft in ink.

Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917

Letter sent 14 Jan 1917,

424/1/1/1/1/216.
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1917, Jan. 14 /

Letter from Edward Thomas to Helen Thomas, addressed Lydd, Kent, dated 'Sunday'. Formerly in envelope dated 14 Jan 1917, Lydd.

Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917

Letter sent 25 Jan 1917,

424/1/1/1/1/220.
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1917, Jan. 25 /

Letter from Edward Thomas to Helen Thomas. Formerly in envelope postmarked 25 Jan 1917, Codford, Wiltshire.

Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917

Blenheim oranges,

424/2/134/2.
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1916, Sep. 3 /

First line: Gone, gone again. Written at Royal Artillery School, Handel Street, London W.C. Typescript.

Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917

The Sheiling,

424/2/141/1.
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1916, Nov. 23 /

First line: It stands alone. Written 'travelling back from Gordon Bottomley's (Silverdale)'. Manuscript draft in pencil.

Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917

The Lofty sky,

424/2/24/1.
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1915, Jan. 10 /

First line: Today I want the sky. Written in Steep. Typescript. Lacks beginning, lines 25-34 only.

Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917

Last poem,

424/2/144/1.
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1917, Jan. 13 /

First line: The sorrow of true love is a great sorrow. Written at Lydd. Manuscript copy in ink in Helen Thomas' hand.

Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917

Tonight,

424/2/68/1.
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1915, Apr. 30 /

First line: Harry, you know at night. Written in Steep. Typescript.

Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917

Letter sent 7 Apr 1917,

424/1/1/1/1/225.
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1917, Apr. 7 /

Letter from Edward Thomas to Helen Thomas, sent from Field Post Office - envelope only, postmarked 7 Apr 1917.

Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917

November sky,

424/2/2/1.
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1914, Dec. 4 /

First line: November's days are thirty. Written in Steep. Typescript.

Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917

W. H. Davies letters

NLW MS 23806D.
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1905-1938

Part of W. H. Davies letters

Some fifty-eight letters and postcards, 1905-1938, from W. H. Davies to various correspondents, mainly concerning his own work and its publication, including some poetry. The letters were collected by E. E. Bissell.
The correspondents include T. I. F. Armstrong (John Gawsworth), 1931-1938 (ff. 1-22), John Freeman, [?early 1914]-1928 (ff. 24-34), Harold Monro, 1905-1927 (ff. 38-39, 41, 45-70), [James Brand] Pinker, 18 December 1905 (f. 72), [M. P.] Shiel, 1 June 1935 (f. 75), [John Collings] Squire, 1914, 1919 (ff. 76-77), and Edward Thomas, 7 December 1907 (f. 78). Also included are carbon copies of letters to Davies from Gawsworth, 19 August 1932 (f. 10), and Monro, 6 October 1920 (f. 44), and from Monro to Conrad Aiken, 20 July 1925 (f. 71); autograph manuscripts, with printers' markings, of Davies' poems 'The Bird of Paradise', [1913] (f. 40), and 'Body and Spirit', [1914] (ff. 42-43), for publication in Poetry and Drama, 1.4 (December 1913), 421, and 2.4 (December 1914), 350, respectively, and 'When Autumn's Fruit', [1920], published in the New Republic, 26 January 1921, p. 251 (f. 80); a signed typescript of Davies' 'In Winter', [October 1931], published by Gawsworth as a limited edition (f. 2); cuttings of 'Come, Melancholy' and 'Age and Youth' from the New Statesman and Nation, 16 January 1932, pp. 47, 65 (ff. 83-84; see also f. 11); proof pages for Davies' contributions to Known Signatures, ed. by John Gawsworth (London, 1932), pp. 31-33, comprising 'Come, Melancholy', 'Age and Youth' and 'In Winter' (ff. 81-82; see also ff. 10-11, 13-16); fragments of an apparently unpublished poem in Davies' hand entitled 'Sally', cut into five strips (f. 23/1-5); 'Bright Flowers', a autograph poem by John Freeman (f. 35); and a signed carte-de-visite photograph of Davies, [early 1900s], apparently presented by him to Edward Thomas.

Freeman, John, 1880-1929

Edward Thomas & James Noble: Letters

NLW Facs 927
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1895-1896

Photocopies of NLW MS 22919B comprising twenty-nine letters, 1895-6, to Edward Thomas from James Ashcroft Noble (1844-96), father of Helen Thomas, and nine letters, 1896, from Thomas to Noble, mainly concerned with Thomas's writing and Noble's deteriorating health, and a copy of a photograph of Noble's study.

Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917

The Ash grove,

424/2/97/1.
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1916, Feb. 8 /

First line: In an ash-grove among the mountains once, I was glad. Written in London. Manuscript, second draft, in ink, sent to Eleanor Farjeon with a letter dated 8 Feb 1916.

Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917