cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian89vf.2
title: Ypres - Minsterworth/On Rest

description: Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. The left hand page contains part of 'Ypres-Minsterworth', titled elsewhere 'Robecq-Minsterworth'. 'Minsterworth' is where the poet F.W. Harvey, a friend of Gurney's, lived. The poem is dedicated to Harvey, who was reported missing in August 1916 but was later known to have been taken prisoner. The right hand page contains a draft of the opening of 'On Rest'.  Both poems were included in 'War's Embers' (1919). From a navy blue notebook used by Gurney at Warrington in July 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8b5f.2
title: The Immortal Hour

description: Thanks Marion Scott for her work on 'Severn and Somme' / glad that she is well / describes having moved with the regiment to region of 'eternal cultivation' / discusses Siegfried Sassoon's and Nicholson's work / discusses changes for 'Song at Morning' and 'Gloucester' / wishes Scott to dedicate something to Ivor Gurney's sister Dorothy / includes 'The Immortal Hour' / 'Questions and Answers' / pleased with the way Sidgwick and Jackson has treated Gurney and quickly closed the deal for 'Severn and Somme' / thinks it bodes well for sales and reviews.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8dqv.2
title: Miss Hilda Adams. VAD (11)

description: Photographs and postcards from Hilda Adams collection, showing colleagues and general views of the work of the medical services.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8iwh.2
title: Letter To Susan Owen (3)

description: Discusses life in Bordeaux. The end of the letter mentions the ease of enlisting, the possible length of service, and the surprise at his decision to enlist in the British Army as opposed to the French forces. This is letter no. 370 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8mpo.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (2)

description: Describes an enjoyable evening spent with fellow officers and a gramophone / the state of Roland Leighton's billet at present / possible upcoming battle / writing in a wood / a recent ride and the surrounding countryside / Vera Brittain writing more than he can to her / wishes to read some of her work from Oxford / thought vs. action / writing a poem.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8taj.2
title: Miss Hilda Adams. VAD (14)

description: Photographs and postcards from Hilda Adams collection, showing colleagues and general views of the work of the medical services.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8ytt.2
title: A woman working at a coal mine pit brow. Lancashire 1918
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian96l.2
title: Miss Hilda Adams. VAD (9)

description: Photographs and postcards from Hilda Adams collection, showing colleagues and general views of the work of the medical services.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand5pw.2
title: Near Midsummer

description: Manuscript in pencil and pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Draft of part of 'Near Midsummer'.  The right hand page has been begun as a letter to his father. From a navy blue notebook used by Gurney at Warrington in July 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand677.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Thanks Marion Scott for her work on 'Severn and Somme' / glad that she is well / describes having moved with the regiment to region of 'eternal cultivation' / discusses Siegfried Sassoon's and Nicholson's work / discusses changes for 'Song at Morning' and 'Gloucester' / wishes Scott to dedicate something to Ivor Gurney's sister Dorothy / includes 'The Immortal Hour' / 'Questions and Answers' / pleased with the way Sidgwick and Jackson has treated Gurney and quickly closed the deal for 'Severn and Somme' / thinks it bodes well for sales and reviews.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandclb.2
title: Two women war workers stand beside a row of shells

description: Chilwell, Nottingham.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandcq2.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Thanks Marion Scott for a letter / discusses prospects of the Gloucester regiment being moved to Windsor Park / clearing a debt / Hillaire Belloc / Thomas Hardy's 'The Dynasts' / the poet Walter de la Mare in the 'Saturday Westminster' / 'Religion and War' / being in the regiment's band / enjoying music and 'ballad writing' / unknown verse / 'Satan Above the Battle' / 'Afterwards' / describes fellow band members / upcoming leave, possibly spent in Minsterworth / Gloucester landscape / Lawrence Binyon in the 'Times Literary Supplement' / Ivor Gurney's recent birthday / a bomb falling in Chelmsford / includes F.W. Harvey's 'In Flanders'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandg3d.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Envelope containing letter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandgej.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (2)

description: Regrets having to break off writing letters on the previous day to spend some time with some staff officers / being very tired / describes supervising the building of dugouts / state of the trenches after a shelling / a skeleton / the costliness of war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandkvz.2
title: Miss Hilda Adams. VAD (13)

description: Photographs and postcards from Hilda Adams collection, showing colleagues and general views of the work of the medical services.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandmn7.2
title: Letter To Susan Owen (1)

description: Joins the 2nd Manchester Regiment at Halloy, nr Beaumont Hamel, on the Somme. Describes the journey from Folkestone, to Calais, and then to camp. Talks about the wet conditions, the destruction of Halloy, censoring letters, and problems of getting equipment. This is letter no. 476 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianfm5.2
title: Diary Extracts for Private Frank Kelty

description: My great uncle  Private Frank Kelty (1714) joined the 2nd / 10th Manchester Regiment in 1916. He died on the 5th of September 1916, at which time he was attached to the King's Liverpool Regiment, and is buried in Euston Road Cemetery in France. 

I was told he had joined under age and his elder brother informed the authorities and he left the army and went to work in munitions.

He then rejoined the army when he was old enough, but it is apparent from his diary entries that he had done so very reluctantly.

This is a part transcript of his diary. The actual diary is damaged, we believe by shrapnel that we also believe resulted in his death. He had made daily entries in the diary up until the 29th August 1916. This leads me to believe that this date was the day he was wounded.

Images of the diary have been submitted separately.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiang2q.2
title: Letter To Susan Owen (5)

description: Discusses life in Bordeaux. The end of the letter mentions the ease of enlisting, the possible length of service, and the surprise at his decision to enlist in the British Army as opposed to the French forces. This is letter no. 370 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianhl4.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Thanks Marion Scott for her work on 'Severn and Somme' / glad that she is well / describes having moved with the regiment to region of 'eternal cultivation' / discusses Siegfried Sassoon's and Nicholson's work / discusses changes for 'Song at Morning' and 'Gloucester' / wishes Scott to dedicate something to Ivor Gurney's sister Dorothy / includes 'The Immortal Hour' / 'Questions and Answers' / pleased with the way Sidgwick and Jackson has treated Gurney and quickly closed the deal for 'Severn and Somme' / thinks it bodes well for sales and reviews.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj85s.2
title: The Fisherman of Newnham / On Rest

description: Draft in pencil of two stanzas of The Fisherman of Newnham.  Gurney copied the completed poem into a letter to Herbert Howells of 11 July 1918. The right hand page contains part of 'On Rest'.  Both poems were published in War's Embers (1919).  From a navy blue notebook used by Gurney at Warrington in July 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj9ns.2
title: Letter To Susan Owen (3)

description: Joins the 2nd Manchester Regiment at Halloy, nr Beaumont Hamel, on the Somme. Describes the journey from Folkestone, to Calais, and then to camp. Talks about the wet conditions, the destruction of Halloy, censoring letters, and problems of getting equipment. This is letter no. 476 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianje1t.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (4)

description: Regrets having to break off writing letters on the previous day to spend some time with some staff officers / being very tired / describes supervising the building of dugouts / state of the trenches after a shelling / a skeleton / the costliness of war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjfv4.2
title: Miss Hilda Adams. VAD (15)

description: Photographs and postcards from Hilda Adams collection, showing colleagues and general views of the work of the medical services.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjh7s.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Thanks Marion Scott for her work on 'Severn and Somme' / glad that she is well / describes having moved with the regiment to region of 'eternal cultivation' / discusses Siegfried Sassoon's and Nicholson's work / discusses changes for 'Song at Morning' and 'Gloucester' / wishes Scott to dedicate something to Ivor Gurney's sister Dorothy / includes 'The Immortal Hour' / 'Questions and Answers' / pleased with the way Sidgwick and Jackson has treated Gurney and quickly closed the deal for 'Severn and Somme' / thinks it bodes well for sales and reviews.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianji8u.2
title: A woman war worker activating the filter press in a Lancashire glucose factory
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjlpv.2
title: The Stone-Breaker

description: Manuscript in pencil and pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Draft of part of 'The Stone-Breaker'.  Gurney later revised the poem and sent it to Marion Scott in 'The Canon Notebook' 52.5 with two new opening and two new closing stanzas, asking her opinion of the work in September 1918. From a navy blue notebook used by Gurney at Warrington in July 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjsed.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (1)

description: Regrets having to break off writing letters on the previous day to spend some time with some staff officers / being very tired / describes supervising the building of dugouts / state of the trenches after a shelling / a skeleton / the costliness of war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjwli.2
title: Women 'Crane girls' at work at the National Filling Factory, Chilwell

description: Chilwell, Nottingham.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjwqe.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Envelope containing letter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianqep.2
title: On Rest

description: Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. Draft of the latter part of 'On Rest'. The poem was included in 'War's Embers' (1919). From a navy blue notebook used by Gurney at Warrington in July 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianr8o1.2
title: Letter To Susan Owen (4)

description: Joins the 2nd Manchester Regiment at Halloy, nr Beaumont Hamel, on the Somme. Describes the journey from Folkestone, to Calais, and then to camp. Talks about the wet conditions, the destruction of Halloy, censoring letters, and problems of getting equipment. This is letter no. 476 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianruz.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (3)

description: Thanks Vera Brittain for a letter / informs her that he has been called up and will be gazetted at Norwich / thinking of her starting at Oxford / wishes her to write.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiansfo.2
title: A woman operator in a signal box on a siding at the Great Central Railway in Birmingham
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianx7s.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (4)

description: Describes an enjoyable evening spent with fellow officers and a gramophone / the state of Roland Leighton's billet at present / possible upcoming battle / writing in a wood / a recent ride and the surrounding countryside / Vera Brittain writing more than he can to her / wishes to read some of her work from Oxford / thought vs. action / writing a poem.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2872.2
title: Letter To Susan Owen (6)

description: Joins the 2nd Manchester Regiment at Halloy, nr Beaumont Hamel, on the Somme. Describes the journey from Folkestone, to Calais, and then to camp. Talks about the wet conditions, the destruction of Halloy, censoring letters, and problems of getting equipment. This is letter no. 476 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2hy9.2
title: Down Commercial Road [Gloucester]

description: Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. Continuation of the draft of 'Down Commercial Road'. From a navy blue notebook used by Gurney at Warrington in July 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2kk2.2
title: Woman Army Service Corps driver
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2lrq.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (6)

description: Describes being affected by surroundings and a beautiful day / the artistic vs. the military side of life / having missed the post / sending his men off to do unnecessary tasks.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2m1h.2
title: Letter To Susan Owen (1)

description: Describes horrendous conditions of holding a dug-out in no man's land at Serre. An incident involving a blinded sentry is mentioned, which probably forms the basis for his poem 'The Sentry'. This is letter no. 480 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2nif.2
title: Letter To Susan Owen (3)

description: Discusses censoring letters and the area of the line his Regiment will shortly occupy. Describes his servant, and his Company Commanders. Describes inspecting soldiers' feet for trench-foot, the Victoria Cross, and his own appearance in waders. He concludes by listing some items he would like his mother to send him. This letter includes a code to tell his mother his location (hence the closing comment 'You need not ask where I am. I have told you as far as I can'. The trigger is the word 'mistletoe'. The reader must then record the second letter of the first words on the following lines. This is letter no. 479 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2pna.2
title: The Grave of Private Frank Kelty (1)

description: These are photographs showing the grave of my great uncle  Private Frank Kelty (1714) who joined the 2nd / 10th Manchester Regiment in 1916. He died on the 5th of September 1916, at which time he was attached to the King's Liverpool Regiment, and is buried in Euston Road Cemetery in France. 

I was told he had joined under age and his elder brother informed the authorities and he left the army and went to work in munitions.

He then rejoined the army when he was old enough, but it is apparent from his diary entries (submitted separately) that he had done so very reluctantly.

One photograph shows the original cross of Frank's grave, the other a photograph of  his headstone that I took on a visit to his grave.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2qti.2
title: Letter: To Mrs Voynich.

description: Thanks Mrs Voynich for a recent letter / discusses Bach and Milton / Shakespeare / Thomas Hardy / George Meredith / rediscovering Walt Whitman and his verse / nouns for use in poems / going for a commission / F.W. Harvey's 'In Flanders' / situation in Poland / possibly going to India / more on trying for a commission / improving health / D.H. Lawrence / Chekov's plays / expecting a zeppelin attack at Chelmsford / a spy being caught in Epping.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2wdp.2
title: Buire au Bois [On Rest]

description: Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. Continuation of the first draft of what was to become 'On Rest' (War's Embers, 1919).  From a navy blue notebook used by Gurney at Warrington in July 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian4tb.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Notes that two letters from July and August from Marion Scott have arrived / discusses Will Harvey / which poems, new and old, to include in 'Severn and Somme' / Easter writers / F.W. Harvey's work / the weather being hotter / links between colours and composers / breaking through the 'Rhine Bridges'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian5rg.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (5)

description: Describes being affected by surroundings and a beautiful day / the artistic vs. the military side of life / having missed the post / sending his men off to do unnecessary tasks.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian652s.2
title: Letter To Susan Owen (5)

description: Discusses censoring letters and the area of the line his Regiment will shortly occupy. Describes his servant, and his Company Commanders. Describes inspecting soldiers' feet for trench-foot, the Victoria Cross, and his own appearance in waders. He concludes by listing some items he would like his mother to send him. This letter includes a code to tell his mother his location (hence the closing comment 'You need not ask where I am. I have told you as far as I can'. The trigger is the word 'mistletoe'. The reader must then record the second letter of the first words on the following lines. This is letter no. 479 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6656.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (6)

description: Describes an enjoyable evening spent with fellow officers and a gramophone / the state of Roland Leighton's billet at present / possible upcoming battle / writing in a wood / a recent ride and the surrounding countryside / Vera Brittain writing more than he can to her / wishes to read some of her work from Oxford / thought vs. action / writing a poem.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6cj5.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (3)

description: Describes being affected by surroundings and a beautiful day / the artistic vs. the military side of life / having missed the post / sending his men off to do unnecessary tasks.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6prn.2
title: A woman drives a trolley train across a busy factory floor at the National Filling Factory, Chilwell

description: Chilwell, Nottingham
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6rf8.2
title: Letter: To Mrs Voynich.

description: Thanks Mrs Voynich for a recent letter / discusses Bach and Milton / Shakespeare / Thomas Hardy / George Meredith / rediscovering Walt Whitman and his verse / nouns for use in poems / going for a commission / F.W. Harvey's 'In Flanders' / situation in Poland / possibly going to India / more on trying for a commission / improving health / D.H. Lawrence / Chekov's plays / expecting a zeppelin attack at Chelmsford / a spy being caught in Epping.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6wko.2
title: Sundown

description: Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. The first two stanzas of the left hand page are the unpublished poem 'Sundown', written over a list of names written in faint purple pencil.  The remaining lines are unidentified and unpublished. From a navy blue notebook used by Gurney at Warrington in July 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6xbr.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Notes that two letters from July and August from Marion Scott have arrived / discusses Will Harvey / which poems, new and old, to include in 'Severn and Somme' / Easter writers / F.W. Harvey's work / the weather being hotter / links between colours and composers / breaking through the 'Rhine Bridges'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6yf7.2
title: Alexandria tram ticket

description: Tram ticket from Alexandria in Egypt. Part of a collection relating to William Dugdall.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6yi.2
title: Down Commercial Road [Gloucester]

description: Manuscript draft in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand of a poem titled 'Commercial Road, Gloucester', later published in War's Embers (1919) as 'Down Commercial Road'. From a navy blue notebook used by Gurney at Warrington in July 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6zbw.2
title: Poem by William George Dugdall (1)

description: Handwritten poem beginning "When you're far far away / From the friends you hold dear", asking for news from home. The poem is attributed to "Wm Geo Dugdall", in a different hand. Part of a collection relating to William Dugdall.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian7r.2
title: Letter To Susan Owen (5)

description: Joins the 2nd Manchester Regiment at Halloy, nr Beaumont Hamel, on the Somme. Describes the journey from Folkestone, to Calais, and then to camp. Talks about the wet conditions, the destruction of Halloy, censoring letters, and problems of getting equipment. This is letter no. 476 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian81f3.2
title: The Grave of Private Frank Kelty (2)

description: These are photographs showing the grave of my great uncle  Private Frank Kelty (1714) who joined the 2nd / 10th Manchester Regiment in 1916. He died on the 5th of September 1916, at which time he was attached to the King's Liverpool Regiment, and is buried in Euston Road Cemetery in France. 

I was told he had joined under age and his elder brother informed the authorities and he left the army and went to work in munitions.

He then rejoined the army when he was old enough, but it is apparent from his diary entries (submitted separately) that he had done so very reluctantly.

One photograph shows the original cross of Frank's grave, the other a photograph of  his headstone that I took on a visit to his grave.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8251.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (5)

description: Describes an enjoyable evening spent with fellow officers and a gramophone / the state of Roland Leighton's billet at present / possible upcoming battle / writing in a wood / a recent ride and the surrounding countryside / Vera Brittain writing more than he can to her / wishes to read some of her work from Oxford / thought vs. action / writing a poem.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian87jm.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (7)

description: Describes an enjoyable evening spent with fellow officers and a gramophone / the state of Roland Leighton's billet at present / possible upcoming battle / writing in a wood / a recent ride and the surrounding countryside / Vera Brittain writing more than he can to her / wishes to read some of her work from Oxford / thought vs. action / writing a poem.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8brc.2
title: Inspector and a Sergeant in the Women's Police Service
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8ckl.2
title: Near Midsummer / The Deserted Road

description: Manuscript in pencil and ink in Ivor Gurney's hand. Another fair copy of 'Near Midsummer' is dated 'Warrington July 1918'. The poem was included in 'War's Embers' (1919). One stanza of an unpublished, apparently discarded poem, 'The Deserted Road', has been crossed out. From a navy blue notebook used by Gurney at Warrington in July 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8f27.2
title: Letter To Susan Owen (4)

description: Discusses censoring letters and the area of the line his Regiment will shortly occupy. Describes his servant, and his Company Commanders. Describes inspecting soldiers' feet for trench-foot, the Victoria Cross, and his own appearance in waders. He concludes by listing some items he would like his mother to send him. This letter includes a code to tell his mother his location (hence the closing comment 'You need not ask where I am. I have told you as far as I can'. The trigger is the word 'mistletoe'. The reader must then record the second letter of the first words on the following lines. This is letter no. 479 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8ig8.2
title: Photographs of Private Frank Kelty (2)

description: Photographs of my great uncle 1714 Private Frank Kelty 
who joined the 2nd / 10th Manchester Regiment in 1916. He died on the 5th of September 1916, at which time he was attached to the King's Liverpool Regiment, and is buried in Euston Road Cemetery in France. 

I was told he had joined under age and his elder brother informed the authorities and he left the army and went to work in munitions.

He then rejoined the army when he was old enough, but it is apparent from his diary entries (submitted separately) that he had done so very reluctantly.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8jf6.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Notes that two letters from July and August from Marion Scott have arrived / discusses Will Harvey / which poems, new and old, to include in 'Severn and Somme' / Easter writers / F.W. Harvey's work / the weather being hotter / links between colours and composers / breaking through the 'Rhine Bridges'.