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Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917
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Badge.

  • 424/7/4.
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Edward Thomas' badge of the Royal Garrison Artillery, lacking its pin [1914-1917].

Button.

  • 424/7/5.
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Edward Thomas' button from the Artist's Rifles uniform, given to Myfanwy Thomas by Joyce Herbert. With a note by Myfanwy Thomas attached [1914-1917].

Clay pipes.

  • 424/7/7.
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Six of Edward Thomas' clay pipes [early 20th century].

Edward Thomas family papers

  • NLW ex 2879.
  • File
  • 1913-2011

Papers, 1913-2011, of Julian Thomas, relating mostly to his brother, the poet Edward Thomas; with other family papers, photographs, ephemera and personalia.
The papers comprise: (i) proofs, drafts and related correspondence of Julian Thomas, 1917-1938; (ii) proofs of Edward Thomas, The Last Sheaf (London, 1928) with corrections [?in the hand of Julian Thomas]; (iii) papers, 1935-1937, relating to the Edward Thomas Memorial Fund; (iv) typescript copies, [1938], of letters (1897-1916) of Edward Thomas to David ('Dad') Uzzell; (v) printed books, periodicals, offprints and cuttings, 1913-2011, mostly relating to Edward Thomas; (vi) family photographs; (vii) five photographs of Reginald Thomas, together with an official message of sympathy on his death from Winston Churchill, Secretary of State for War, [1918], and the 'King's Message' accompanying the Memorial Plaque (see xvi); (viii) some fifteen family postcards, 1929-1992; (ix) passport, 1931-1938, of Edward Eastaway Thomas; (x) miscellaneous photographs and papers of David Christopher T. Thomas, R.N.V.R., 1941-1946; and (xi-xiii) three notebooks of [?D. C. T.] Thomas, [1940s]. Also included are: (xiv) a first edition copy of Edward Thomas, The South Country (London, 1909), inscribed by him on the half-title page 'To Father & Mother 15.XI.09', with a few further annotations in pencil in a different hand; (xv) a Morocco leather case containing a sepia photograph, [1916x1917], of Corporal Edward Thomas in uniform; (xvi) the bronze Next of Kin Memorial Plaque issued to Reginald Thomas' family following his death; and (xvii) a stamp containing the monogram 'MH' or 'HM' in a case decorated with a rose design.

Thomas, Julian, 1889-

Geoffrey Woolley Papers

  • GB 0210 WOOLLEY
  • Fonds
  • [c. 1750]-2010

Papers of the journalist Geoffrey Woolley, including a group of letters, 1906-1915, from the poet Edward Thomas to W. H. Hudson.

Woolley, Geoffrey, 1915-2010

Helen Thomas letters to Rex Taylor

  • NLW MS 23103D.
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  • 1949-1964

Some fifty-six letters, [1950]-[1962], from Helen Thomas to the writer Rex Taylor (ff. 4-71), together with three letters, 1948-1964, to the poet Basil Dowling (ff. 1-3 verso); they contain mainly personal news, comments on Edward Thomas and on the work of Rex Taylor.

Thomas, Helen, 1877-1967

Helen Thomas letters to Terence Cooper

  • NLW MS 23299C.
  • File
  • 1959-1967

One hundred and thirty-two letters and cards, 1959-1967, from Helen Thomas to Terence Cooper, London, containing mainly personal news and comments on Edward Thomas; also included are two letters, 1962-1965, from Myfanwy Thomas, daughter of Helen and Edward Thomas (ff. 45, 144).

Thomas, Helen, 1877-1967

Letters relating to Edward Thomas

Three letters, 1917, to P[hilip] H[enry] Thomas, father of the poet Edward Thomas who was killed in the Battle of Arras on 9 April 1917. They comprise a letter of condolence, 16 April 1917, from Capt. N. G. Brett James, a fellow student of Thomas's at Lincoln College (f. 12); and letters from the authors Arthur L. Salmon, Bristol (f. 13), and D. L. Kelleher, Dublin (f. 14), both dated 29 October 1917 and both prompted by Philip Thomas's letter to The Nation the previous week defending his son's reputation (see The Nation, 22.3 (20 October 1917), p. 95, for Thomas's letter, which was in response to an unfavourable review of his son's The Tenth Muse (London, 1917) in The Nation, 22.2 (13 October 1917), pp. 73-74).

Brett-James, Norman G. (Norman George), 1879-

Miniature Shakespeare.

  • 424/?
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Image of: Six volumes of a miniature version of The Plays of Shakespeare, published by William Pickering, London, 1825.

Miscellaneous letters

  • NLW MS 21818E.
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  • 1900-1995

Letters, 1900-1995, of miscellaneous provenance. Correspondents include A. J. Balfour (1) 1916, W. H. Davies (2) 1912-1913, Lyubov (Aimée) F. Dostoevskaya (1, in French) 1924, Owen M. Edwards (4) 1900-1916, David Lloyd George (4) 1911-1919, Megan Lloyd George (3) 1948-1951, Richard Hughes (6) 1923-1935, Augustus John (7) [1918]-1950, Daniel Jones (2) 1972-1981, David Jones (1) 1966 (discussing some of his paintings), Jack Jones (2) 1938-1939, Saunders Lewis (5) 1951-1965, Wallis Simpson, later Duchess of Windsor (1) 1937, Edward Thomas (1) 1901, and Ralph Vaughan Williams (1) [1940].

Railway pass,

  • 424/7/17.
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  • 1916, Dec 3.

Great Eastern Railway pass for an officer, from Loughton to Lydd, 3 December 1916.

Tobacco box.

  • 424/7/3.
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Edward Thomas' silver tobacco box with initials P.E.T., hallmarked Birmingham 1898.

Wallet.

  • 424/7/9.
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Edward Thomas' leather wallet [early 20th century].

Watch,

  • 424/7/2.
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  • [early 20 cent.].

Edward Thomas' pocket watch, on his person when he died at Arras, early 20th century.