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First line: I have come to the borders of sleep. Written in Trowbridge. Manuscript first draft in ink.
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917
First line: I have come to the borders of sleep. Written in Trowbridge. Manuscript first draft in ink.
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917
First line: Rise up, rise up. Written at Royal Artillery Barracks, Trowbridge. Typescript.
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917
First line: Rise up, rise up. Written at Royal Artillery Barracks, Trowbridge. Manuscript draft in pencil.
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917
First line: What will they do when I am gone? It is plain. Written 'going home to Steep'. Typescript.
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917
First line: There was a weasel lived in the sun. Written at 'Selsfield (with Helen)'. Selsfield House, East Grinsted was the home of Vivian Locke Ellis. Manuscript draft in ink, found among family papers after the death of Helen Thomas. Titled 'For Baba' (Myfanwy Thomas).
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917
This is the constellation of the lyre,
First line: This is the constellation of the lyre. Not included in R. George Thomas, The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas (1978). Manuscript poem written by Edward Thomas in his daughter Bronwen Thomas' autograph album. It has been detached from the album and mounted on a scrap of paper. Pencil drawing on reverse signed 'Catherine W. Alexander, August 15th 1915'.
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917
First line: Early one morning in May I set out. Written at Hare Hall. Manuscript draft in ink. Unique from the versions printed in R. George Thomas, The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas (1978).
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917
First line: As the team's head brass. Written at Hare Hall Camp, Gidea Park, Romford. Manuscript draft in ink.
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917
[The Wind's song]; [sonnet 3],
First line: Dull-thoughted, walking among the nunneries. Written at Hare Hall. Typescript.
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917
First line: No one so much as you. Written ' going home on sick leave'. Typescript.
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917
First line: The green elm with the one great bough of gold. Written in High Beech, Essex. Typescript.
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917
First line: Often I had gone this way before. Written in Steep. Typescript.
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917
Letter from Edward Thomas to Helen Thomas. In envelope postmarked Codford St Mary, Wiltshire, 17 Jan 1917.
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917
Welch papers. Bib Hall 150, by John Walters and others. English, Welsh. 1/2 calf. Donated by George Williams, Porthcawl, November 1952.
An album of press cuttings, 1902, relating to the transfer of Welsh settlers from the Chubut Valley, Argentine, to Canada.
Sarah Jacob, the 'Welsh fasting girl',
Brief for the defence in the case heard at the Carmarthenshire Assizes, July 1870, against Evan and Hannah Jacob of Llanfihangel-ar-arth, co. Carmarthen, for the manslaughter of their daughter, Sarah Jacob (1857-69), the 'Welsh Fasting Girl'; the brief includes transcripts of depositions by witnesses, taken before the magistrates at Llandysul, and of related correspondence.
A volume containing Welsh poetry in free and strict metres, in the hand of David Evans (Dewi Dysul), Llandysul, Cardiganshire (see W. J. Davies, Hanes Plwyf Llandyssul (Llandysul, 1896, repr. 1992), pp. 253-5), mostly written by himself and relating to local events and personalities. Also included are diary entries, 1839-1872, relating to the weather and agricultural memoranda (ff. 70-81verso, inverted text).
The volume contains a Welsh carol, 1828 (ff. 1-2), Welsh poems sent as Valentines, 1850-1851 (ff. 13, 15, 33), a poem in praise of Llanover Hall, [1860s] (f. 52 verso), a poem in praise of John Hopkins (Ioan Glan Tees), 1863 (ff. 53 recto-verso), a Welsh metrical version of Mother Shipton's Prophecy, 1873 (f. 59), a poem on the death of the son of David Davies (Glan Cunllo), 1867 (f. 55 verso), and a chart of early-nineteenth century Welsh poets compiled by John William Thomas (Arfonwyson), [c. 1840] (f. 74 verso).
Evans, David, Dewi Dysul.
Photograph of "A" Company 11th (Service) Battalion South Lancashire Regt.,
Black and white photograph (mounted) taken outside the PJ Hall of the University, Bangor.
Image of: Six volumes of a miniature version of The Plays of Shakespeare, published by William Pickering, London, 1825.
Great Eastern Railway pass for an officer, from Loughton to Lydd, 3 December 1916.