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Diary of Edward Thomas, 14 June 1904-21 February 1905, recording brief details of articles and reviews sent out and payments received for published work, and letters sent and received, with short notes of other activities.
Diary of Edward Thomas, 1907, recording brief details of articles and reviews sent out and of letters received and sent, with short notes of other activities.
Diary of Edward Thomas, 1910, recording very brief details of work done and of letters sent and received, together with a list of articles sent out (ff. 1 verso-3) and a few short notes of other activities.
Diary of Edward Thomas, 13 September 1902-13 June 1904, recording brief details of articles and reviews sent out, payments received for published work, and letters sent and received, with short notes of other activities and a few longer passages of personal reflection.
Typescript drafts, [1915x1917], of twenty-three poems by Edward Thomas with collation of texts by R. George Thomas (ff. i-vi). They include two copies of ['Words'], one marked 'unamended' (ff. 34-7), and of 'Lob', one marked 'unrevised' (ff. 38-45), and a copy of 'The Combe' (f. 2) signed 'Edward Eastaway'. The typescripts are working copies used by the poet for revision when selecting poems for inclusion in Poems published in 1917 under the pseudonym 'Edward Eastaway'. Nine of the poems were included in that volume.
Edward Thomas and others.
Notebook, 1916, containing autograph drafts and revisions of twenty-seven untitled poems (ff. 7v-41), all published in The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas, ed. by R. George Thomas (Oxford, 1978), where the manuscript is designated M2 (p. xxiii) and assumed to have been 'used as a working notebook in camp - and in the train. Like M1 [NLW MS 22920A], it gives an admirable example of Thomas's working method as a poet and, according to his letters to Frost, it contains many of the poems he adjudged to be his best'. Also included are the final words of the essay, 'The Pilgrim' (f. 1) (see note below), an apparently unpublished prose dialogue between P., T. and Jehovah (ff. 1 verso-7) and trigonometrical sketches (ff. 29 verso-30 verso).
Notebook, 1914-1915, containing autograph drafts and revisions of some twenty-five untitled poems by Edward Thomas (ff. 1v-27), all published in The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas, ed. by R. George Thomas (Oxford, 1978), where the manuscript is designated M1 (p. xxii).
Edward and Helen Thomas manuscripts
Papers, in the main diaries and correspondence, 1895-[?1978], of Edward and Helen Thomas, comprising diaries of Edward Thomas, 1895-1917; correspondence, 1896-1917, of Edward Thomas and his wife Helen; correspondence, 1895-1896, of Edward Thomas and his father-in-law James Ashcroft Noble; autograph drafts of poems, 1914-1917, by Edward Thomas, all of which were published in The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas, ed. by R. George Thomas (Oxford, 1978); the original manuscript of The Heart of England (London, 1906); an autograph prose piece, 1912, entitled 'A Castle of Cloud'; and fragments of Edward Thomas's journals, memoranda, photographs, etc., 1895-1916.
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917
Diary of Edward Thomas, 22 February-31 December 1905, recording brief details of articles and reviews sent out, payments received for pubilshed work, and letters received and sent, with short notes of other activities.
Edward Thomas correspondence with James Ashcroft Noble
Twenty-nine letters, 1895-1896, to Edward Thomas from James Ashcroft Noble (1844-1896), father of Helen Thomas, and nine letters, 1896, from Thomas to Noble, mainly concerned with Thomas's writing and Noble's deteriorating health. Also included is a copy of a photograph of Noble's study (f. 109).
Noble, James Ashcroft, 1844-1896
Proofs, 1897, 1915, of parts of two books by Edward Thomas, containing a few corrections and revisions in the author's hand.
The proofs for The Woodland Life (Edinburgh and London, 1897), his first published volume, consist of a single gathering (paginated 1-16), being the beginning of the article 'The Sweet o' The Year' (ff. 1-8). As well as the inscription 'Mother. May 7. 1897' (on f. 1) there are a few emendations in ink (ff. 3 recto-verso, 8). The proofs for Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds (London, 1915), his only book written for children, consist of four loose gatherings (paginated [i]-viii, 1-48), comprising most of the first eleven chapters, and contain several minor corrections in pencil (ff. 9-36).
First World War diary of the poet and essayist Edward Thomas, 1 January-8 April 1917, containing descriptions of army life in England and France, observations on the natural world, and brief accounts of letters sent and received. It also contains the only known draft of Thomas's last poem, 'The sorrow of true love' (f. 29), dated 13 January 1917. The covers and leaves of the diary are heavily creased, suggesting that it may have been in Thomas's pocket when he was killed by a shell on the first day of the Battle of Arras on 9 April 1917. For an edited version of the diary's text, see The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas, ed. by R. George Thomas (Oxford, 1978), pp. 460-481. Three items found loose inside the diary's covers, including a draft of Thomas's poem, 'The Lane' [1916], have been filed as NLW MS 24030iiA.
Largely disconnected papers of Edward Thomas, comprising journals, on loose sheets, for 29 August-18 September 1903 (ff. 3-5), 30 December-8 January 1904 (ff. 6-7), 14-20 February 1904 (f. 8), 11 April 1904 (f. 9), 28 September-11 November 1904 (ff. 10-15), 31 December 1909 (ff. 16-20), 18-25 April [1911] (f. 21) and a visit to Paris, [1912] (ff. 22-30); lists of essays sent to publishers, 1899 and 1914 (ff. 1, 35); notes on income, 1908-1916 (ff. 31-34); part draft of a book review, [1913] (ff. 38-40); photographs of Edward Thomas, 1895 (f. 41), and Gordon Bottomley (f. 42).
Diary of Edward Thomas, 12 December 1900-20 October 1901, recording details of books read, letters and articles written, payments for published work, meetings with friends and other personal notes, together with passages of description and personal reflection.
Diary of Edward Thomas, 1906, recording brief details of articles and reviews sent out and of letters received and sent, with short notes of other activities.
Diary of Edward Thomas, 1909, recording very brief details of work done and of letters sent and received, together with a list of articles sent out (ff. xv-xvi verso) and a few short notes of other activities.
Diary of Edward Thomas, 1912, recording very brief details of work done and of letters sent and received, together with a list of articles sent out (ff. xxix-1) and a few short notes of other activities.
Helen Thomas letters to Edward Thomas
Sixty-seven letters, 1899-1911, to Edward Thomas from his wife, Helen Thomas, containing mainly personal and family news.
Helen Thomas.
Edward Thomas letters to Helen Thomas
Eleven letters, October 1914, from Edward Thomas to his wife, Helen Thomas, in the form of a journal of his bicycle tour in Hampshire, Wiltshire, Glamorgan and Breconshire, together with an account of his visit to Robert Frost at Dymock, Gloucestershire.
Diary of Edward Thomas, 21 October 1901-12 September 1902, recording brief details of articles and reviews sent out, payments received for published work, and letters received and sent, with short notes of other activities.