National Library of Wales Archives and Manuscripts

[What will they do?],

424/2/136/1.
File
1916, Sep. 15 /

First line: What will they do when I am gone? It is plain. Written 'going home to Steep'. Typescript.

Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917

Letter sent 20 Oct 1916,

424/1/1/1/1/206.
File
1916, Oct. 20 /

Letter from Edward Thomas to Helen Thomas, addressed 13 Rusham Road, Balham.

Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917

Letter sent 14 Dec 1916,

424/1/1/1/1/211.
File
1916, Dec. 14 /

Letter from Edward Thomas to Helen Thomas, addressed Lydd, Kent.

Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917

The Trumpet

424/2/137/1.
File
1916, Sep. 26 /

First line: Rise up, rise up. Written at Royal Artillery Barracks, Trowbridge. Manuscript draft in pencil.

Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917

Lights out,

424/2/139/1.
File
1916, Nov. /

First line: I have come to the borders of sleep. Written in Trowbridge. Manuscript first draft in ink.

Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917

The Trumpet,

424/2/137/2.
File
1916, Sep. 26 /

First line: Rise up, rise up. Written at Royal Artillery Barracks, Trowbridge. Typescript.

Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917

As the team's head brass,

424/2/121/1.
File
1916,May. 27 /

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],

424/2/110/1.
File
1916,Apr. 22-30 /

First line: Dull-thoughted, walking among the nunneries. Written at Hare Hall. Typescript.

Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917

Letter sent Jan-Feb 1917,

424/1/1/1/1/222.
File
1917, Jan.-Feb. /

Letter from Edward Thomas to Helen Thomas, addressed Codford, Wiltshire, dated 'Sunday evening'.

Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917

Letter sent 17 Jan 1917,

424/1/1/1/1/218.
File
1917, Jan. 17 /

Letter from Edward Thomas to Helen Thomas. In envelope postmarked Codford St Mary, Wiltshire, 17 Jan 1917.

Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917

[Song 3],

424/2/124/1.
File
1916, Jun. 8-11 /

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

Letter sent 3 Feb 1917,

424/1/1/1/1/223.
File
1917, Feb. 3 /

Letter from Edward Thomas to Helen Thomas, sent from France.

Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917

October,

424/2/89/1.
File
1915, Oct. 15-16 /

First line: The green elm with the one great bough of gold. Written in High Beech, Essex. Typescript.

Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917

Home [2],

424/2/61/1.
File
1915, Apr. 17 /

First line: Often I had gone this way before. Written in Steep. Typescript.

Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917

[M. E. T.],

424/2/101/1.
File
1916, Feb. 11 /

First line: No one so much as you. Written ' going home on sick leave'. Typescript.

Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917

Edward Thomas letters to Jesse Berridge

NLW MS 23695E
File
1901-1985

Seventy-six letters, 1901-1917, from the poet Edward Thomas to his friend, the Rev. Jesse Berridge, containing personal and family news and references to the progress of his work (ff. 1-102; see The Letters of Edward Thomas to Jesse Berridge, ed. by Anthony Berridge (London, 1983); for letter no. 63 in the series see NLW MS 10617B).
Also included are transcripts of two letters from the poet to Mrs Edna Berridge, 1912 (ff. 103-104); one letter, [1940s], to Jesse Berridge from Helen Thomas, the poet's widow (f. 123), and two letters, 1957-1961, and a card, [?1950s], from Eleanor Farjeon (ff. 125, 127-128 verso), together with related papers, notably Berridge's draft of his short memoir of Edward Thomas, 1947 (ff. 106-111; see Letters, pp. 84-90), a typescript address, 1985, by R. George Thomas (ff. 131-134) and press cuttings, 1907-1978 (ff. 135-144), including articles by Helen Thomas, 1962-1963 (ff. 139-142). The collection also contains sketches by Edward Thomas, 1902 (f. 24 recto-verso), and references to W. H. Davies, 1905 (f. 52 recto-verso), Gordon Bottomley, 1907 (ff. 56, 58), Robert Frost, 1957 (f. 127), and to the First World War, 1915-1917 (ff. 92-102), together with a copy of a letter, 1947, to Rowland L. Watson, secretary of the Edward Thomas Memorial Committee (f. 105).

Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917

Letter sent 1 Jan 1917,

424/1/1/1/1/215.
File
1917, Jan. 1 /

Letter from Edward Thomas to Helen Thomas, addressed Lydd, Kent. Formerly in envelope postmarked 2 Jan 1917.

Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917

Letter sent Dec 1916,

424/1/1/1/1/213.
File
1916, Dec. /

Letter from Edward Thomas to Helen Thomas, addressed Lydd, Kent, dated 'Friday'.

Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917

March the 3rd,

424/2/47/1.
File
1915, Mar. 23 /

First line: Here again (she said) is March the third. Written in Steep. Typescript. Manuscript alterations in Eleanor Farjeon's hand, lines 6-8 the most heavily corrected, also 9, 13 and 20, which probably reflect the editing mentioned in Thomas' letters to her, printed in E. Farjeon, Edward Thomas: The Last Four Years (1958), p. 132. (1) 'Perhaps I shall be able to mend March the 3rd. I know it must be either mended or ended'. (28 Apr 1915); (2) 'I have mended March 3rd too, you see'. (29 Apr 1915).

Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917

The sun used to shine,

424/2/119/2.
File
1916, May. 22 /

First line: The sun used to shine while we two walked. Written at Hare Hall. Typescript, with corrections in Eleanor Farjeon's hand. The typescript matches the version in the Blue Notebook (in private ownership), and Eleanor's annotations match the second draft which is held in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917

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