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Letter from Edward Thomas to Helen Thomas, addressed 13 Rusham Road, Balham.

First line: I have come to the borders of sleep. Written in Trowbridge. Manuscript first draft in ink.

First line: Rise up, rise up. Written at Royal Artillery Barracks, Trowbridge. Typescript.

First line: Rise up, rise up. Written at Royal Artillery Barracks, Trowbridge. Manuscript draft in pencil.

First line: What will they do when I am gone? It is plain. Written 'going home to Steep'. Typescript.

First line: There was a weasel lived in the sun. Written at 'Selsfield (with Helen)'. Selsfield House, East Grinsted was the home of Vivian Locke Ellis. Manuscript draft in ink, found among family papers after the death of Helen Thomas. Titled 'For Baba' (Myfanwy Thomas).

First line: This is the constellation of the lyre. Not included in R. George Thomas, The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas (1978). Manuscript poem written by Edward Thomas in his daughter Bronwen Thomas' autograph album. It has been detached from the album and mounted on a scrap of paper. Pencil drawing on reverse signed 'Catherine W. Alexander, August 15th 1915'.

First line: Early one morning in May I set out. Written at Hare Hall. Manuscript draft in ink. Unique from the versions printed in R. George Thomas, The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas (1978).

First line: As the team's head brass. Written at Hare Hall Camp, Gidea Park, Romford. Manuscript draft in ink.

First line: Dull-thoughted, walking among the nunneries. Written at Hare Hall. Typescript.

First line: No one so much as you. Written ' going home on sick leave'. Typescript.

First line: The green elm with the one great bough of gold. Written in High Beech, Essex. Typescript.

First line: Often I had gone this way before. Written in Steep. Typescript.

Letter from Edward Thomas to Helen Thomas. In envelope postmarked Codford St Mary, Wiltshire, 17 Jan 1917.

Welch papers. Bib Hall 150, by John Walters and others. English, Welsh. 1/2 calf. Donated by George Williams, Porthcawl, November 1952.

An album of press cuttings, 1902, relating to the transfer of Welsh settlers from the Chubut Valley, Argentine, to Canada.

Brief for the defence in the case heard at the Carmarthenshire Assizes, July 1870, against Evan and Hannah Jacob of Llanfihangel-ar-arth, co. Carmarthen, for the manslaughter of their daughter, Sarah Jacob (1857-69), the 'Welsh Fasting Girl'; the brief includes transcripts of depositions by witnesses, taken before the magistrates at Llandysul, and of related correspondence.

A volume containing Welsh poetry in free and strict metres, in the hand of David Evans (Dewi Dysul), Llandysul, Cardiganshire (see W. J. Davies, Hanes Plwyf Llandyssul (Llandysul, 1896, repr. 1992), pp. 253-5), mostly written by himself and relating to local events and personalities. Also included are diary entries, 1839-1872, relating to the weather and agricultural memoranda (ff. 70-81verso, inverted text).
The volume contains a Welsh carol, 1828 (ff. 1-2), Welsh poems sent as Valentines, 1850-1851 (ff. 13, 15, 33), a poem in praise of Llanover Hall, [1860s] (f. 52 verso), a poem in praise of John Hopkins (Ioan Glan Tees), 1863 (ff. 53 recto-verso), a Welsh metrical version of Mother Shipton's Prophecy, 1873 (f. 59), a poem on the death of the son of David Davies (Glan Cunllo), 1867 (f. 55 verso), and a chart of early-nineteenth century Welsh poets compiled by John William Thomas (Arfonwyson), [c. 1840] (f. 74 verso).

Black and white photograph (mounted) taken outside the PJ Hall of the University, Bangor.

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