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Edward and Helen Thomas manuscripts

  • GB 0210 MSEDWMAS
  • Fonds
  • 1895-[?1978]

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

Helen Thomas letters to Rex Taylor

  • NLW MS 23103D.
  • File
  • 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

Helen Thomas letters to Terence Cooper: Transcripts

  • NLW MS 23300D.
  • File
  • 1959-1977

Typescript transcripts, [?1977], by Myfanwy Thomas of letters and cards, dated 1959-1967, from her mother Helen Thomas to Terence Cooper, now NLW MS 23299C (ff. 9-175), together with a related letter, 1977, from her to Terence Cooper (f. 7), and typescript notes by the latter on his first three visits to Helen Thomas in 1959 (ff. 1-6).

Thomas, Myfanwy

Helen Thomas: Essay on her love of nature

Autograph draft by Helen Thomas, [early 1920s], of a possibly unpublished lyrical work about her love of nature in general and of hills and mountains in particular.
References to Kent and the River Darent (ff. 44-45) show that the work was written while Thomas lived at Otford in Kent in the years after her husband's death. There are also references to the Sussex Downs (f. 45 recto-verso) and to her 1919 visit to Scotland (ff. 46-49 verso) and to Glen [?Ample, Perthshire] (f. 49) (see Helen Thomas, Time & Again, ed. by Myfanwy Thomas (Manchester, 1978), pp. 126-127).

Thomas, Helen, 1877-1967

Helen Thomas: Quick March

  • NLW MS 23987D.
  • File
  • [1931]

An autobiographical work entitled 'Quick March', written [in 1931] by Helen Thomas, and bearing corrections and paragraph marks, evidently in preparation for publication. The work appeared untitled as the seventeenth and final chapter of her second memoir, World Without End (London: Heinemann, 1931), pp. 181-194. This manuscript was claimed by the seller to have been owned by Vita Sackville-West, who reviewed World Without End (see Helen Thomas, Time & Again: Memoirs and Letters, ed. by Myfanwy Thomas (Manchester, 1978), p. 130).

Thomas, Helen, 1877-1967

Edward Thomas letters and poems

Papers, [1903]-[1922], of Jack Haines relating to Edward Thomas, comprising: an apparently unpublished holograph book review by Thomas, [?early 1903], entitled 'Pioneers! O Pioneers', reviewing Gerald Stanley Lee, The Lost Art of Reading (New York and London, 1902) (ff. 1-4); a carbon copy typescript of 'The West Wind', being an abbreviated, and otherwise unknown, version of 'The Wind's Song', consisting of the last ten lines only of that poem ('The Wind's Song', composed in April 1916, is No. 110 in The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas, ed. by R. George Thomas (Oxford, 1978), pp. 300-301) (f. 5); a carbon copy typescript of the poem 'Lights Out', written in early November 1916, first published in Edward Thomas ("Edward Eastaway"), Poems (London, 1917), pp. 59-60, and No. 139 in The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas, pp. 366-7 (f. 6); a typescript copy of the poem 'Out in the dark', written on Christmas Eve 1916, first published in Edward Thomas, Last Poems (London, 1918), p. 96, and No. 143 in The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas, pp. 374-5 (f. 7); a manuscript copy, undated and in an unidentified hand, of the poem beginning 'I may come near loving you', first published as 'P.H.T.' in Edward Thomas, Collected Poems (Fifth Impression) (London, 1949) and No. 99 in The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas, pp. 272-3 (f. 8); a letter, [28] June 1915, from Edward Thomas, at Bablake School, Coventry, to Haines, sending a [?typescript] draft of his poem 'Words' (the poem is not named in the letter and is no longer present; Thomas also sent a revised version to Haines on 30 June 1915, see NLW, R. George Thomas (Edward Thomas) Research Papers /1) (f. 9); a letter card, 10 September 1915, from E[dward] T[homas], Balham, to Haines (f. 10); and a letter, [1922], from Helen Thomas, Otford, Sevenoaks, to Haines, discussing her marriage to Edward Thomas and his friendship with Robert Frost, and sending Haines the manuscript now NLW MS 24122B (f. 11-12).

Thomas, Helen, 1877-1967