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DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj7d2.2
title: Acquiescence / The Strong Thing

description: A copy of the second edition (March 1919) of Ivor Gurney's collection 'Severn and Somme', first published in November 1917 by Sidgwick and Jackson, owned by Gurney and annotated and corrected by him some time after 1921, probably in April 1925. Includes an inscription by Gurney, numerous alterations in the poet's hand, in black and blue ink, and descriptions of where Gurney remembers the poems to have been written. Gurney notes that 'Acquiescence' and 'The Strong Thing' were both written East of Laventie.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjbjm.2
title: Towards Lillers

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Other much-corrected drafts of the poem exist, and part of the poem can be found in the typescript of 'Aeroplanes Over Aubers'. This version was included in the Leonard Clark edition of Gurney's poems in 1973, and in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004). From a pink mottled hard-cover exercise book. The inside front cover is inscribed 'Music to Miss C. Rogers...Poetry to Professor Saintsbury / Bath'. The inside back cover is inscribed 'Instead of a home / I require death'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjce4.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (4)

description: Describes reading Vera Brittain's letters by candlelight and responding to them / the state of the trenches and dugouts / location of the platoon / a bullet passing Roland Leighton's head as he shaved / potential for remaining in the sector / forgetting about danger and the potential for death / graves in the wood / wonders how much he should share with Vera / mending barbed wire on detail / idealism and the war / anticipates a future together with Vera.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjcte.2
title: Typed copy of a diary (3)

description: Typed copy of a diary
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjdgc.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Inquires after Edward Thomas' health / describes a symphony at school / visit from Helen and Myfanwy Thomas to school / asks what Edward Thomas would like for Christmas.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjf3a.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (7)

description: Describes sitting in a dug-out / a German sniper / recent activities of British artillery / the experience of shelling / the set-up of his dugout / the shelling later on / the danger of stray bullets / the dangers of getting in and out of the trenches / having a bullet come past close to his head / officers' duties / the mud / amusing names for the various trenches / much love to Vera.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjks9.2
title: Cemeteries on the Western Front During the FIrst World War

description: Members of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAACs) tending the graves of fallen British soldiers in a cemetery at Abbeville.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjnnb.2
title: Animals in War 1914-1918

description: Animals in Agriculture: The British Army pig farm at Etaples. Livestock intended for the military population were well provided for.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjqrt.2
title: Song of Songs

description: This is no. 86 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjrds.2
title: Typed copy of a diary (6)

description: Typed copy of a diary
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjtu6.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Describes her eleven birthday presents / play at lacrosse / sending a piece of cake to Edward Thomas and a sugar robin for remembrance while he is away / love from the family.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiankof.2
title: Photography during the First World War

description: Troops supposedly 'going over the top' at the start of the Battle of the Somme in 1916, photographed by Canadian official photographer Ivor Castle. This photograph was widely and misleadingly published as a portrayal of an actual British attack. However it was actually taken during a training exercise behind the lines. The breech cover which is clearly visible on the rifle of the soldier in the foreground was edited out in contemporary publications of the photograph.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianqvn.2
title: The Estaminet

description: A copy of the second edition (March 1919) of Ivor Gurney's collection 'Severn and Somme', first published in November 1917 by Sidgwick and Jackson, owned by Gurney and annotated and corrected by him some time after 1921, probably in April 1925. Includes an inscription by Gurney, numerous alterations in the poet's hand, in black and blue ink, and descriptions of where Gurney remembers the poems to have been written. Gurney notes that 'The Estaminet' was written at Arras.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiantlz.2
title: The Next War

description: Written at Craiglockhart in late September 1917, and revised at Scarborough in July 1918. This is no. 160 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianwpe.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Describes her eleven birthday presents / play at lacrosse / sending a piece of cake to Edward Thomas and a sugar robin for remembrance while he is away / love from the family.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian15u.2
title: The roads also have their wistful rest

description: This is no. 172 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian21ri.2
title: June-To-Come / Hark, Hark, the Lark

description: A copy of the second edition (March 1919) of Ivor Gurney's collection 'Severn and Somme', first published in November 1917 by Sidgwick and Jackson, owned by Gurney and annotated and corrected by him some time after 1921, probably in April 1925. Includes an inscription by Gurney, numerous alterations in the poet's hand, in black and blue ink, and descriptions of where Gurney remembers the poems to have been written. Gurney notes that  'June-To-Come' and 'Hark, Hark, The Lark' were both written at Arras.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian22lh.2
title: Typed copy of a diary (18)

description: Typed copy of a diary
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2bgo.2
title: A Captured Bunker

description: A captured (German?) bunker believed to be on the Northern Western Front.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2e6e.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (2)

description: Discusses Edward Brittain's problems with receiving a posting to the front / depression at being separated from Vera Brittain / relief at not having her and Mrs. Leighton present at Victoria train station / the site of other families saying goodbye to the soldiers.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2ecl.2
title: Typed copy of a diary (15)

description: Typed copy of a diary
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2of8.2
title: Tobacco

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. A longer version of the poem exists in the pink manuscript exercise book 64.1. The shorter draft found here was printed in 'The London Mercury' in 1924. Found in a green hard-covered manuscript exercise book, marked 'The Note Book / (between music makings) / of Ivor Gurney / 1921-1922 / 'corrected Feb 1925' / 'Ivor Gurney''.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2pv1.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (3)

description: Describes two cruisers anchored in the sea outside of the house in Lowestoft / distractions from college work / plans to meet in Oxford /growing a moustache.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2rqz.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Describes a visit to Petersfield to feed swans.  Includes a drawing of a boat and human figures.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2wcn.2
title: Requiem ['Pour out your bounty...'] / Sonnets 1917 : To England

description: A copy of the second edition (March 1919) of Ivor Gurney's collection 'Severn and Somme', first published in November 1917 by Sidgwick and Jackson, owned by Gurney and annotated and corrected by him some time after 1921, probably in April 1925. Includes an inscription by Gurney, numerous alterations in the poet's hand, in black and blue ink, and descriptions of where Gurney remembers the poems to have been written. These pages show a poem (the third in the volume) entitled 'Requiem', which has been crossed out entirely and rewritten by Gurney in blue ink ['Lie still...'], written at Arras. With numerous alterations, and also written at Arras, the other poem, 'To England', is part of a sonnet sequence dedicated to the English poet Rupert Brooke.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2xej.2
title: Varennes

description: Manuscript in pen and pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. From a manuscript noted book entitled 'The Book of Five Makings'. Written while Gurney was either at Barnwood House asylum, Gloucester (September-December 1922) or Stone House, Dartford, Kent (the City of London Mental Hospital where Gurney stayed from December 1922 until his death).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2y5a.2
title: Six O'clock in Princes Street

description: This is no. 99 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian61ht.2
title: Gas-Proof Homing Pigeon Box

description: Enabled messages to be attached to the pigeon without removing it from the box.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian63iu.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Describes going to the hop gardens / tea party / feeding a donkey.  Includes a drawing of a man walking towards a house wearing a rucksack.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian68u4.2
title: Laventie Front

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Numerous versions of the poem exist, including another, another found in this volume, and yet another entitled 'Laventie'. Found in a green hard-covered manuscript exercise book, marked 'The Note Book / (between music makings) / of Ivor Gurney / 1921-1922 / 'corrected Feb 1925' / 'Ivor Gurney''.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6exc.2
title: Winter Song

description: This is no. 98 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6frj.2
title: Typed copy of a diary (12)

description: Typed copy of a diary
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6i4c.2
title: The Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) 18 July-10 November 1917

description: The capture of an 'impregnable' position-'our artillery drove them from their fortresses and our infantry did the rest'. Men in trenches.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6l7b.2
title: Laventie

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Various versions of the poem exist, including a manuscript draft in the green manuscript exercise book 64.3, are longer. The version show here ends at line 44. From a pink mottled hard-cover exercise book. The inside front cover is inscribed 'Music to Miss C. Rogers...Poetry to Professor Saintsbury / Bath'. The inside back cover is inscribed 'Instead of a home / I require death'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6n1t.2
title: New Years Eve

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Another version of the poem was published in Leonard Clark's edition of Ivor Gurney's poems of 1973. That version was also published in 'The London Mercury' in 1924. Found in a green hard-covered manuscript exercise book, marked 'The Note Book / (between music makings) / of Ivor Gurney / 1921-1922 / 'corrected Feb 1925' / 'Ivor Gurney''.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6r7k.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Asks how Edward Thomas likes the army / describes the weather and a dance / relates examination marks / sends luck alongside a drawing of a cat.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6sf6.2
title: Golden Hair

description: This is no. 125 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6wwd.2
title: Battle of the St. Quentin Canal

description: Infantry passing over Riqueval Bridge which the 1/6th North Staffs. of the 46th Division had saved from demolition on 29th September and which the 466th Field Company repaired.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6y5b.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (3)

description: Discusses Edward Brittain's problems with receiving a posting to the front / depression at being separated from Vera Brittain / relief at not having her and Mrs. Leighton present at Victoria train station / the site of other families saying goodbye to the soldiers.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6zpt.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (1)

description: Describes two cruisers anchored in the sea outside of the house in Lowestoft / distractions from college work / plans to meet in Oxford /growing a moustache.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian815s.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (1)

description: Discusses Edward Brittain's problems with receiving a posting to the front / depression at being separated from Vera Brittain / relief at not having her and Mrs. Leighton present at Victoria train station / the site of other families saying goodbye to the soldiers.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8369.2
title: Song of Pain and Beauty / Spring. Rouen, May 1917

description: A copy of the second edition (March 1919) of Ivor Gurney's collection 'Severn and Somme', first published in November 1917 by Sidgwick and Jackson, owned by Gurney and annotated and corrected by him some time after 1921, probably in April 1925. Includes an inscription by Gurney, numerous alterations in the poet's hand, in black and blue ink, and descriptions of where Gurney remembers the poems to have been written. Gurney notes that 'Song of Pain and Beauty' was written at Gommecourt and Chaulnes, and 'Spring. Rouen, May 1917', with numerous alterations and stanzas crossed out in pen, was written at Rouen.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8cwj.2
title: Canadian Field Ambulance

description: An operation taking place within an hour of the man being wounded.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8euz.2
title: Half Dead

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Various version of the poem exist, as in the pink notebook 64.1. The draft shown here is shortened. Line 8's 'cloths of heaven' is a reference to a W.B. Yeats poem containing the line 'Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths...'. Found in a green hard-covered manuscript exercise book, marked 'The Note Book / (between music makings) / of Ivor Gurney / 1921-1922 / 'corrected Feb 1925' / 'Ivor Gurney''.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8gf1.2
title: Winter Song

description: This is no. 98 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8ipv.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (6)

description: Describes reading Vera Brittain's letters by candlelight and responding to them / the state of the trenches and dugouts / location of the platoon / a bullet passing Roland Leighton's head as he shaved / potential for remaining in the sector / forgetting about danger and the potential for death / graves in the wood / wonders how much he should share with Vera / mending barbed wire on detail / idealism and the war / anticipates a future together with Vera.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8krh.2
title: Typed copy of a diary (11)

description: Typed copy of a diary
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8rhv.2
title: Official First World War Photographers

description: David McClellan: The single file of infantry going forward in the last stages of the 1918 offensive.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8s1v.2
title: First Time In

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. This is a different version to the one found in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004), after a surviving typescript draft of the poem. Found in a green hard-covered manuscript exercise book, marked 'The Note Book / (between music makings) / of Ivor Gurney / 1921-1922 / 'corrected Feb 1925' / 'Ivor Gurney''.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8vi4.2
title: Postcard: To Edward Thomas.

description: Postcard with a coloured-in train and gun.  Reverse with a note from Merfyn Thomas telling of Myfanwy Thomas' measles / wishing that his father would return home soon.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8xie.2
title: 15-Inch Shell

description: Soldier holding shell, which has written inscription, 'Iron Ration'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianbvf.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (2)

description: Describes two cruisers anchored in the sea outside of the house in Lowestoft / distractions from college work / plans to meet in Oxford /growing a moustache.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianccc.2
title: Requiem ['Pour out your light' or 'Who stood and watched'] / Requiem ['Nor grief nor tears...']

description: A copy of the second edition (March 1919) of Ivor Gurney's collection 'Severn and Somme', first published in November 1917 by Sidgwick and Jackson, owned by Gurney and annotated and corrected by him some time after 1921, probably in April 1925. Includes an inscription by Gurney, numerous alterations in the poet's hand, in black and blue ink, and descriptions of where Gurney remembers the poems to have been written. These pages show two poems, both entitled 'Requiem'. The first version has been crossed out entirely and rewritten by Gurney in blue ink. The second version opening with 'Nor grief nor tears...' he notes was written East of Laventie.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand1pl.2
title: The Landing

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Found in a green hard-covered manuscript exercise book, marked 'The Note Book / (between music makings) / of Ivor Gurney / 1921-1922 / 'corrected Feb 1925' / 'Ivor Gurney''.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand34e.2
title: But I was looking at the permanent stars

description: This is no. 93 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand5jj.2
title: Drawing.

description: Drawing of trees and mountains by one of Edward Thomas' children.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandamz.2
title: Battle of the Canal du Nord

description: A Field Dressing Station, showing prisoners bringing the wounded in. 4th Canadian Division Front. In background artillery going forward. Owing to depth of initial objective, batteries were compelled to move foward into captured ground to continue firing the barrage.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandbb6.2
title: Preface

description: A copy of the second edition (March 1919) of Ivor Gurney's collection 'Severn and Somme', first published in November 1917 by Sidgwick and Jackson, owned by Gurney and annotated and corrected by him some time after 1921, probably in April 1925. Includes an inscription by Gurney, numerous alterations in the poet's hand, in black and blue ink, and descriptions of where Gurney remembers the poems to have been written.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandly.2
title: Typed copy of a diary (17)

description: Typed copy of a diary
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandmqx.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (4)

description: Discusses Edward Brittain's problems with receiving a posting to the front / depression at being separated from Vera Brittain / relief at not having her and Mrs. Leighton present at Victoria train station / the site of other families saying goodbye to the soldiers.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandrts.2
title: Winter Song

description: This is no. 98 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianduaw.2
title: Typed copy of a diary (13)

description: Typed copy of a diary
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandxcp.2
title: Typed copy of a diary (19)

description: Typed copy of a diary
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandz6h.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Describes going to the hop gardens / tea party / feeding a donkey.  Includes a drawing of a man walking towards a house wearing a rucksack.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj1tb.2
title: Winter Song

description: This is no. 98 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj6ko.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (7)

description: Describes reading Vera Brittain's letters by candlelight and responding to them / the state of the trenches and dugouts / location of the platoon / a bullet passing Roland Leighton's head as he shaved / potential for remaining in the sector / forgetting about danger and the potential for death / graves in the wood / wonders how much he should share with Vera / mending barbed wire on detail / idealism and the war / anticipates a future together with Vera.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjljd.2
title: Postcard: To Edward Thomas.

description: Postcard with a coloured-in train and gun.  Reverse with a note from Merfyn Thomas telling of Myfanwy Thomas' measles / wishing that his father would return home soon.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjmm4.2
title: Battle of the Canal du Nord

description: Engineers of the 4th Division waiting in an abandoned trench to go forward.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjmqw.2
title: Winter Beauty

description: A copy of the second edition (March 1919) of Ivor Gurney's collection 'Severn and Somme', first published in November 1917 by Sidgwick and Jackson, owned by Gurney and annotated and corrected by him some time after 1921, probably in April 1925. Includes an inscription by Gurney, numerous alterations in the poet's hand, in black and blue ink, and descriptions of where Gurney remembers the poems to have been written. Gurney notes that 'Winter Beauty', with numerous alterations in pen and an added stanza, was written at Varennes.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjpb8.2
title: Song at Morning / Trees

description: A copy of the second edition (March 1919) of Ivor Gurney's collection 'Severn and Somme', first published in November 1917 by Sidgwick and Jackson, owned by Gurney and annotated and corrected by him some time after 1921, probably in April 1925. Includes an inscription by Gurney, numerous alterations in the poet's hand, in black and blue ink, and descriptions of where Gurney remembers the poems to have been written. Gurney notes that 'Song at Morning', was written 'looking at it', and that both 'Song at Morning' and 'Trees' were both written at Arras.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjqp.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Describes a visit to Petersfield to feed swans.  Includes a drawing of a boat and human figures.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjxav.2
title: Typed copy of a diary (14)

description: Typed copy of a diary
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjypo.2
title: Billet

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. A different version of the poem exists in the pink manuscript notebook 64.1. Found in a green hard-covered manuscript exercise book, marked 'The Note Book / (between music makings) / of Ivor Gurney / 1921-1922 / 'corrected Feb 1925' / 'Ivor Gurney''.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianl8x.2
title: Apologia Pro Poemate Meo

description: This is no. 123 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianqgl.2
title: The Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) 18 July-10 November 1917

description: A youthful German who lost his life in no-man's-land during the German attack of 3rd October 1917. Nearest unit 1st ANZAC Corps.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianr8co.2
title: Typed copy of a diary (16)

description: Typed copy of a diary
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianre6l.2
title: Spring. Rouen, May 1917

description: A copy of the second edition (March 1919) of Ivor Gurney's collection 'Severn and Somme', first published in November 1917 by Sidgwick and Jackson, owned by Gurney and annotated and corrected by him some time after 1921, probably in April 1925. Includes an inscription by Gurney, numerous alterations in the poet's hand, in black and blue ink, and descriptions of where Gurney remembers the poems to have been written. Gurney notes that 'Spring. Rouen, May 1917', with numerous alterations and stanzas crossed out in pen, was written at Rouen.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianrrb.2
title: Spring. Rouen, May 1917 / June-To-Come

description: A copy of the second edition (March 1919) of Ivor Gurney's collection 'Severn and Somme', first published in November 1917 by Sidgwick and Jackson, owned by Gurney and annotated and corrected by him some time after 1921, probably in April 1925. Includes an inscription by Gurney, numerous alterations in the poet's hand, in black and blue ink, and descriptions of where Gurney remembers the poems to have been written. Gurney notes that  'Spring. Rouen, May 1917', with numerous alterations and stanzas crossed out in pen, was written at Rouen, and 'June-To-Come' was written at Arras.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianueh.2
title: Unknown poem

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. From a pink mottled hard-cover exercise book. The inside front cover is inscribed 'Music to Miss C. Rogers...Poetry to Professor Saintsbury / Bath'. The inside back cover is inscribed 'Instead of a home / I require death'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian21eh.2
title: Official First World War Photographers

description: David McClellan: The final battles; a huge mass of 137 Brigade, 46th Division, on the banks of the St Quentin Canal which formed part of the German defence system, the Hindenburg Line, broken on 29 September 1918. They are being addressed by Brigadier General J C Campbell VC CMG DSO on the Riqueval Bridge.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian235v.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Describes activities in the garden / happy to be going back to school.  Includes a drawing of a ship labeled 'White Star Line'.