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Edward and Helen Thomas manuscripts
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Diary entries, on loose sheets, for [?22] November [1903] (f. 1), 22-30 November 1905 (f. 2 recto-verso), 24-29 June 1908 (f. 3 recto-verso), and 29 August-16 September [1911] (ff. 4-5 verso), a letter, 1903, to Edward Thomas granting him permission to fish, and a transcript by the poet of the folk-song 'O can ye sew cushions'.
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.