The Edward Thomas Fellowship
Newsletter
An Index
of
Main Articles
Newsletter 1, October 1980
to
Newsletter 77, August 2017
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n April 1999, Fellowship member John Barnes produced the first index to the Edward Thomas Fellowship Newsletters. The index covered the period 1980 to 1999 Newsletter numbers 1 to 40 inclusive.
John in his introduction stated that members of the Fellowship gain much pleasure from the contents and on occasions find the need to refer back to a particular item or article, but where to find them?
Retirement held the key for John, enabling him to collate all the material from the first forty editions. Seven years later I found myself in that same situation, retirement and all the pleasure that it brings. It seemed sensible to follow the same format that John used, not all the items are listed, and as with any index it must be somewhat subjective.
The headings are as the published articles wherever possible.
The first eighteen Newsletters were compiled by the founder and first Chairman of the Edward Thomas Fellowship, Anne Mallinson assisted by Alan A. Martin the Hon. Secretary at that time.
Richard Emeny became the editor of the Newsletter with edition nineteen and continued to fill the Newsletter which gradually developed into a journal with erudite scholarship untiledition 61, when the reins were taken over by Dr Guy Cuthbertson.
We owe much to our previous editors for the time and effort that they have put into making the Newsletters a publication that we all look forward to receiving with great anticipation throughout the year.
Colin G. Thornton
Hon. Secretary
Edward Thomas Fellowship
Date
/ Article / Author1 / Oct 1980 / Edward Thomas Centenary 1978 – Laurence Whistler Windows in Steep Church.
Death of Harry Coombes. / A. Mallinson
A. Martin
2 / Feb 1981 / Sotheby’s Sale of Edward Thomas Letter and John Freeman’s letters.
The Fellowship Symbol / A. Mallinson
A. Martin
3 / June 1981 / Myfanwy’s talk on Helen and Edward at the Blewbury Festival. / A. Mallinson
A. Martin
4 / Sept 1981 / Sotheby’s Sale of eleven autographed letters from Edward Thomas to John Wilson later of Bumpus.
George Borrow Centenary. / A. Mallinson
A. Martin
5 / Jan 1982 / A proposed visit to Edward’s grave at Agny.
6 / Aug 1982 / In Memoriam – Easter 1982, 65th Anniversary of ET’s death.
One of these Fine Days, Myfanwy’s publication of her memoirs. / A. Mallinson
A. Martin
7 / Jan 1983 / The White Horse, Priors Dean.
65th Anniversary of ET’s death 1982 at Eastbury Church with Myfanwy.
Honouring Ivor Gurney
Mrs Rowland Watson at 91 / A. Mallinson
A. Martin
8 / Dec 1983 / Celebrating ‘Oxford’ at Lincoln College.
A Man Who Loved England. JHB Peel on Edward Thomas in the Daily Telegraph. / A. Mallinson
A. Martin
9 / Feb 1984 / Of Birds and Bells on March the Third, Kilvert’s Diary extract, 3rd March 1878.
Putting the ‘Shoulder of Mutton’ back on the map. / A. Mallinson
A. Martin
10 / Aug 1984 / Walking Sticks. ET’s stick on the Birthday Walk.
Thank you for remembering Adlestrop.
RIBA Festival of Architecture visit to Steep. / A. Mallinson
A. Martin
11 / Dec 1984 / Remembrances at Steep. Bedales School Play based upon Eleanor Farjeon’s The Last Four Years.
Recognition in the London Area. ET Plaques.
Something to Sing About. The White Horse.
The Icknield Way Association. / A. Mallinson
A. Martin
12 / Jan 1985 / The Red House Plaque.
Ethel Mannin. Her Appreciation of ET. / A. Mallinson
A. Martin
13 / Jul 1985 / Elected Friends by Anne Harvey, first recorded performance. / A. Mallinson
A. Martin
14 / Jan 1986 / The Red House Plaque, Unveiling.
Edward Thomas Commemorated at Westminster Abbey. Unveiling of the Memorial to Twelve First World War Poets at Poets Corner.
Lady Dorothy MacAlister. (Death of the widow of Edward Thomas’s life-long friend, Sir Ian MacAlister.)
Autographed letters at auction. 74 letters from Edward Thomas to Jesse Berridge. / A. Mallinson
A. Martin
15 / Aug 1986 / The Memorial Stone. Maintenance and surroundings by Hampshire County Council.
Death of Mrs Rowland Watson a memoir.
George Taylor, craftsman. Retires from Edward Barnsley’s workshop. Designer and maker of two Edward Thomas plaques.
Into safe keeping in Cardiff: The Thomas Collection at the Library, University College Cardiff.
Anne comes of age or nearly. An appreciation from the Fellowship of the Selborne Bookshop. /
M. Thomas
A. Mallinson
M. Thomas
16 / Jan 1987 / Family tributes in the 50th anniversary year of Edward’s death.
Robert Frost’s granddaughter visits England.
Subterranean Muse – Poetry for Passengers. Edward’s Snow included in Poems for the Underground – and Myfanwy tells of a 1930’s poster by C R W Nevinson poster illustrating the poem Thaw.
A Treasure to Acquire: An 1890 volume of wild birds comes to light containing the signature Edwy Thomas 1895 and a quotation from Richard Jefferies written in Edward’s hand.
Remembering Rowland and Cherry Watson. A memoir by their daughter Sanchia. / E. E. Thomas
E. C. Thomas
L. L. Francis
A. Martin
A. Martin
S. Metcalfe
17 / Aug 1987 / Fifty Year Ago. The unveiling of the Memorial Stone on the Shoulder of Mutton in 1937.
An April weekend of remembrance, on the seventieth anniversary of Edward’s death.
The 9th April seventy years later.
The Fellowship remembers two friends of Edward, Richard Jefferies and Rupert Brooke.
Literary Pilgrims, Anne Mallinson takes two Edward Thomas inspired journeys. / A. Mallinson
A. Martin
M. Thomas
A. Martin
A. Martin
A. Mallinson
18 / Feb 1988 / Fiftieth Anniversary of the Edward Thomas Memorial Stone. Presentation of the Rowland Watson Papers to Bedales School. Ceremony on the Shoulder of Mutton, and prose and poetry in Bedales School.
Hurricane Havoc in Hampshire, trees uprooted on The Shoulder of Mutton. Alan Martin relinquishes his post as the Fellowship’s first Hon. Secretary, tributes and comments. / A. Mallinson
A. Martin
A. Mallinson
19 / Aug 1988 / Armistice Festival, some commemorative events for the seventieth anniversary.
The Selborne Bookshop, a change of role.
A Thank You, from Anne Mallinson, on relinquishing the Chairmanship of the Fellowship. / R. Emeny
A. Mallinson
A. Mallinson
20 / Jan 1989 / Eric Jackson, death of the Fellowship’s Membership Secretary.
Adlestrop, replacement of the bus shelter plaque.
Artistic Commemoration of the Fallen of the First World War during the 70th Armistice Anniversary
November 1988.
Alan Martin visits the 1914 – 1918 Battlefields in France. / R. Emeny
R. Emeny
R. Emeny
A. Martin
21 / Aug 1989 / Slice of Life, our Founder Chairman comes of Age! 21st Anniversary of the Selborne Bookshop.
A Double Anniversary at Selborne by Sean Street, the bi-centenary of Gilbert White’s masterpiece, and the 21st Anniversary of the Selborne Bookshop.
A Musical Celebration of Edward Thomas’s poetry in All Saints Church Steep. / R. Emeny
S. Street
R. Emeny
22 / Feb 1990 / A Time for Remembrance, Anne Mallinson spends Remembrance Sunday 1989 in Eastbury with Myfanwy Thomas.
Finding Frost in England. Robert Frost’s visits in 1914 and 1957.
Ivor Gurney centenary celebrations.
The Third of March. A personal impression of the Birthday Walk. / A. Mallinson
B. Coffin
R. Emeny
M. Foster
23 / Aug 1990 / Myfanwy Thomas interviewed by Michael Moynihan about her memories of Edward Thomas.
At the Grave of Edward Thomas, a poem.
The Hangers Way, Anne Mallinson joins the opening of this 17 mile walk.
Visit to Eton College to view Edward Thomas material in the library.
A Connassher of Cakes: New light on Gordon Bottomley.
The Selborne Circle of Rural Writers. / M. Moynihan
D. Hughes
A. Mallinson
R. Emeny
I. Dewhirst
S. Street
24 / Feb 1991 / Opening of the Poets Path 2: Dymock, 27th October 1990.
Rose Coombes, a tribute.
Ivor Gurney Centenary Weekend.
In search of Charles Dalmon.
At Dymock, and At Agny, two poems. / E E Thomas
A. Martin
A. Powell
R. Lowndes
S. Street
25 / Aug 1991 / Joy Finzi, a memoir.
Rose Coombes MBE, an account of her Memorial Service.
Edward Thomas and Walter de la Mare. / M. Thomas
A & J Powell
M. Moynihan
26 / Feb 1992 / Retirement of Revd. Douglas Snelgar.
Hope Amidst Dejection: Edward Thomas and his hosts at Minsmere.
Only the Name. A poem based on Adlestrop. / R. Emeny
M. Haggerty
D. Jones
27 / Aug 1992 / National Library of Wales. Acquisition of letters between Edward and James Ashcroft Noble.
Edward Thomas’s Private Writing.
A lasting Acquaintance: David Uzzell.
Steep Church: A valedictory speech by Andrew Routh in Bedales Quad, 20th April 1992 in honour of Pam and Douglas Snelgar.
75th Anniversary reading at the National Portrait Gallery by Anne Harvey and Tom Durham commemorating Edward’s death.
In Edward Thomas Country, 75th anniversary walk around Steep by the Selborne Circle of Rural Writers.
The Sun Shone and the Birds Sang. The 75th Anniversary Commemorations at Agny, France.
Louder the Heart’s Dance. Minsmere and Hope Webb.
Photographs:
Cecily Walker planting flowers at the grave of Edward.
ETF members at Edward’s Grave Agny. / R. Emeny
D. Huws
K. Watts.
A. Routh
A. Mallinson
C. G. Thornton
R. Lowndes
C. Lacey
C. Lacey
28 / Jan 1993 / At the British Cemetery: Remembering the Poet, a press report from the local Arras newspaper, La Voix du Mardi, on the Fellowship’s 75th Anniversary visit to Agny. Translated into English.
In Pursuit of Spring 1993. Mary Wynn-Jones’ timetable of her cycle ride commemorating the book’s publication in 1913.
Edward Thomas – Mirror of England.
Edward Thomas by H. Coombes, 1957 review of book. / A. Mallinson
J V Wilson.
S. Graham
29 / Aug 1993 / The London Day. ETF visit to Battersea Library, the Imperial War Museum and Westminster Abbey.
Roland Gant. A tribute on his death.
In Pursuit of Spring Ride, 21st – 28th March 1993 / R. Emeny
M. Thomas
M Wynn-Jones
30 / Jan 1994 / The Selborne Cottage Shop Closure.
Sanchia Metcalfe, Rowland and Cherry Watson’s daughter.
Notelets, Yvonne Scargon’s wood engravings. Myfanwy writes on the birds featured in the poems.
Letters to Merfyn Thomas, six letters from Edward Thomas to his son. Three letters to Ian MacAlister, Helen and Edward Garnett.
The Ancestry of Edward Thomas the Poet.
Edward Thomas at Oxford 1897 – 1900. / R. Emeny
A. Martin
M. Thomas
E. Thomas
B. Ll. James
R. G. Thomas
31 / Aug 1994 / Adoption of Triangulation Point near Warren Corner.
Carl Dons 1913 -1994: Farewell to a kind and benevolent friend.
A Memory of Edward Thomas.
Letters from Edward to Helen, Harry Hooton and Dad Uzzell, and one from Dad to Helen on hearing of Edward’s death.
Edward Thomas and Walter de la Mare.
Photographs:
ETF Walkers at Little Iddens 1990.
Lunch break at The White Horse 1989 / R. Emeny
A. Martin
U. John
E. Thomas
M. Moynihan
L. Emeny
L. Emeny
32 / Feb 1995 / A meeting with Robert Frost. A letter from Elizabeth Parkhurst to her parents Julian and Maud Thomas in 1947.
A Memory of Edward Thomas by Sir Ian MacAlister.
Six letters from Edward Thomas to Harry Hooton, Ian MacAlister, Walter de la Mare, Helen (2) John Freeman and his parents.
R. S. Thomas and the Gregynog area.
Edward Thomas’s first school, Belleville School.
The Sounds of Silence. / E. Parkhurst
I. MacAlister
E. Thomas
A. Jurgis
R. Logan
L. Hart
33 / Aug 1995 / The Cheltenham Archives on the Dymock Poets.
Edwy.
Three letters from Edward Thomas to Dad Uzzell, Gwili and Harry Hooton.
Julian Thomas 27.7.1890 – 30.7. 1947 Part 1.
Alun Lewis: 1915 – 1944 On Death and Beauty. / R. Emeny
H. Hooton
E. Thomas
E. E. Thomas
A. Powell
34 / Feb 1996 / Death of Edward Eastaway Thomas, Joint President of the Fellowship.
Visit to Cheltenham and Gloucester College of H E and the Whittington Press.
Jack Eddlestone, retirement of the landlord of the White Horse.
Gordon Bottomley Plaque on his birthplace Keighley.
Julian Thomas 27.7.1890 – 30.7. 1947 Part 2.
Edward Thomas’s appreciation of Art.
Edward Thomas.
Cloud Castle and Other Papers. A review.
How Way Leads on to Way. An American Literary Pilgrim in England.
The Forgotten Georgian.
Photographs:
A memory of Anne Mallinson’s shop.
The Walk Card 1991 / R. Emeny
B. Morton
R. Emeny
I. Dewhirst
E. E. Thomas
K. Watts
E.S.P. Haynes
E.S.P. Haynes
J. Armstrong
R. Lowndes
35 / Aug 1996 / Edward Eastaway Thomas OBE, DSC, FRHistS 1918 – 1996. An address given at his funeral by Jeremy Pursglove, his Godson.
For my unforgettable and dear cousin, Edward Eastaway Thomas, a remembrance.
E. S. P. Haynes, A Mini Memoir.
Oenothera. Written in 1898 and previously unpublished.
Free Traders on the Road. From the Daily Chronicle, 1910.
Soldiers Everywhere. From the New Statesman.
The William Morris Society. William Morris and Edward Thomas.
Photographs:
Birthday Walk 1996. / J. Pursglove
M. Thomas
E. Norris
E. Thomas
E. Thomas
E. Thomas
36 / Feb 1997 / A remembrance of the 1971 dedication of the window to Edward and Helen Thomas engraved by Laurence Whistler in Eastbury Church. Berkshire on the 25th anniversary of the event, 16th October 1996.
Edward Thomas, Eighty Years On.
A Bearded Gent Lying on a Couch Perhaps, Gordon Bottomley 1874 – 1948.
Edward Thomas’s Shelley.
L’ Entente Cordiale a la Edward Thomas.
Photographs:
Portrait of Edward Thomas.
Plaque of Daffodil Walk at Dymock. / A. Mallinson
S. Lushington
I. Dewhirst
C. Saunders
E. Norris
E. Norris
L. Hart
37 / Aug 1997 / Edward Thomas Fellowship Tour: 8th – 11th April 1997 80th Anniversary of Edward Thomas Thomas’s Death.
Agny and the First World War Battlefields.
Agny Visit 1997.
Trip to Agny, April 1997.
Remembrance at Steep, 9th April 1997.
Edward Thomas and his Literary Agent.
These Things the Poet Said? Edward Thomas’ Conversations with A. D. Williams.
Photographs:
Edward Thomas at Wick Green 1913 by Julian Thomas
Elizabeth Thomas (now Parkhurst) with Robert Frost.
Remnants, any battlefield 1997.
ETF at Beaurains, site of the Observation Post.
Mansell Copse – The Devonshires’ Trench
Thiepval Memorial.
The Fellowship at Edward’s Grave Agny 1997.
Agny Cemetery 1997.
Vimy Ridge – Canadian Memorial 1997. / H. Polley
E. C. Thomas
I. Hayes
S. Serpell
A. Mallinson
R. Gomme
F. O’Gorman
E. Parkhurst
L. Emeny
L. Emeny
L. Emeny
L. Emeny
L. Emeny
L. Emeny
38 / Jan 1998 / The Letters of Edward Thomas to John Freeman, 22 letters written from 1908 to 4th April 1917.
Edward Thomas and W. H. Hudson.
Photographs:
Priors Dean Church, ‘Small church, great yew…’
Zennor Village from Zennor Hill, ‘Downhill I came…’ / E. Thomas
D. Shrubsall
L. Emeny
L. Emeny
39 / Aug 1998 / Influences. Seminar at Cheltenham College of HE, Saturday 30th May 1998.
Poems by Edward Thomas (Edward Eastaway) 1917. John Barnes points to some minor mysteries in the Imperial War Museum’s facsimile publication of Edward Thomas’s first book of poems.
Winter by the Sea.
The Growth of an Emblem. Connections between Ivor Gurney and Edward Thomas.
Our Lady of Pain. The Speaker, 26th August 1899.
Photographs:
John Gavin at Agny. / G. Fowler
J. Barnes
J. S. Aldis
L. Parker
E. Thomas
40 / Jan 1999 / New Notecards, a second set of six cards with Edward Thomas poems and engravings.
Notes on the Place Names in Edward Thomas’s Household Poems.
A Summerhillian Connexion on the Adlestrop Line.
Edward Thomas.
Edward Thomas: “The Lyre” and the Banquet. Plus Lesley’s letter to the Newsletter’s Editor on Robert Frost’s friendship with Edward Thomas.
The Artist’s Rifles Journal, January 1917, report of Gazetting of Cpl Philip Edward Thomas, R.G.A.
Photographs:
ETF at Elses Farm, Autumn Walk 1996.
Little Iddens 1985.
Edward and Ruth Thomas at home, Dorking, Autumn Walk 1988.
Selborne Bookshop 25th Anniversary. / E. C. Thomas
B. Reitz
B. Purdy
D. Constantine
L. Lee Francis
L. Emeny
L. Emeny
L. Emeny
L. Emeny
41 / Aug 1999 / Settings of Edward’s poems set to music by Tippet, Gurney, Rubbra, and Finzi et al at the Royal College of Music.
Letter from Herbert Farjeon to his wife Joan.
Letter from George Earl (Pod) to Joan Farjeon.
Letter from Eleanor Farjeon to Myfanwy Thomas.
When speech takes one form and no other, Gaps in biographies and bibliographies. Part 1 / H. Farjeon
G. Earl
E. Farjeon
R. Lowndes
42 / Jan 2000 / Letter from Edward Thomas to Charles Barratt
A Small World, Edward C. Thomas’s visit to Buffalo University. With letters from Edward Thomas to various people.
When speech takes one form and no other, Edward Thomas and The New Witness. Part 2
Jack Haines: The “Now Forgotten Genius.” Talk given by Robert Moreland at the Edward Thomas Seminar November 1997.
Photograph: ‘Dad and Mrs Uzzell.’ / E. Thomas
E. C. Thomas
R. Lowndes
R. Moreland
43 / July 2000 / Some Cartmel Writers: Bottomley, Ransome and Abercrombie (and a bit about Thomas)
Thomas, Sturt and the Demise of Rural England.
Edward Thomas and Harold Munro.
Was ‘Dad’ Uzzell ever at Hodson Bottom? / J. Cooper
D. Gervais
D. Hibberd
K. Watts
44 / Jan 2001 / Poem ‘At Steep (For Myfanwy Thomas.)
A Birthday Visit to Myfanwy – August 2000.
A Children’s Story by Helen Thomas. The True Story of Billy the Dormouse.
Two Farjeon Letters.
Obituary, Eric Norris
Edward Thomas and Belleville Road School. (See also Newsletter 32, February 1995.)
Moments of Everlastingness. From the Seminar 1999
Edward Thomas and a Sense of Place.
Photograph: Myfanwy Thomas and Eric Norris at Eastbury, March 2000. / D. Sutton
A. Mallinson
H. Thomas
E. Farjeon
T. Wilton-Steer
R. Purver
D. Thomas
I. Brinton
45 / Aug 2001 / Obituary, Emeritus Professor R. George Thomas: A Personal Memoir.
Study Day at The National Portrait Gallery, 24th June 2001.
The Paper Chase Friendship.
Charles Dalmon. Rumours of the Self – The Poetry of Edward Thomas.
Photograph: Myfanwy Thomas and R. George Thomas. / Dr. A. John
R. Lowndes
G. Cockman
J. Wilcox
46 / Jan 2002 / Obituary, Gervais Farjeon.
A Country Idyll, from The Daily Chronicle 31st August 1910.
Dad Uzzell, written by Edward Thomas circa 1894 or 1895
The Poetry of Today, from The Book Monthly August 1905.
Two Letters from Helen Thomas to Robert Frost and a poem.
True Travellers: Edward Thomas’s friendship with W. H. Davies.
Photograph: 21st Birthday Walk. / A. Harvey
E. Thomas
E. Thomas
E. Thomas
H. Thomas
G. Fowler
47 / Aug 2002 / Report on the ET Seminar Kingham and Adlestrop 6th July 2002.
Edward Thomas and Francis Ledwidge: An Unexpected Connection.
Rain. A short essay. / T. Quinn
D. Gervais
48 / Jan 2003 / The Autumn Walk, 22nd September 2002 a report.
Visit to Agny, 4th – 7th October 2002.
When Christmas Comes, Eastbury 1st December 2002
Anthem for Doomed Youth. The Imperial War Museum, 19th November 2002.
The Military Cemetery at Agny and the Commonwealth (Originally Imperial) War Graves Commission.
Poet of the Boyne and Unsung Songs.Francis Ledwidge, the poet from the Irish fields, killed on Flanders Fields, 31st July 1917, aged 29.
Tom Kettle, Enigmatic Lost Leader.Poet, Essayist, MP, Economics Professor, Barrister, Irish Patriot, British Soldier, killed at Givenchy, Somme, France 9th September 1916 aged 36.
Edward Thomas: Gone the Wild day, Edwardian England 1900 – 1914.
Photograph: Agny October 2002. / A. Harvey
R. Gomme
T. Quinn
T. Quinn
R. Turnbull
49 / June 2003 / Interim News Sheet.
50 / Aug 2003 / Report on the ET Study Day at the University of Gloucestershire 12th July 2003.
Details of the second set of note cards.
Details of the CD of Helen Thomas.