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DOI: 10.5287/bodleianzp2.2
title: First Time In ['After the dread...']

description: Typescript of poem without any alterations prepared by Marion Scott, and possibly amongst those poems submitted to and rejected by the firm Sidgwick and Jackson in 1922. Numerous versions of the poem survive, with particular alterations to line 13 and the final three lines. Another version exists, beginning with the line 'The Captain addresses us...'. The version shown here was included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian23lg.2
title: Women ambulance drivers compete in a tug-of-war
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian25qb.2
title: The Letter

description: Written at Scarborough or possibly Ripon. This is no. 141 in Ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian278s.2
title: The Crimson Notebook

description: Front cover of a red notebook inscribed 'Pte Gurney / 2/5 Gloucesters', used by Gurney, principally at Rouen, during May-June 1917 and containing various notes and drafts of poems.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian28m5.2
title: The Gallows

description: inscribed 'For Baba'.  Written at Selsfield House where Edward Thomas spent time as a paying guest in the winter of 1912 and the spring of 1914, and where Edward and Helen Thomas came to spend the last four days of his leave visiting friends.  It reveals Edward Thomas' close involvement with his children during his leaves from the army.  The manuscript is untitled but is labeled 'The Gallows' in 'Edward Thomas Collected Poems'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2dhu.2
title: The Gallows

description: Inscribed 'For Baba' a reference to Edward Thomas' second daughter Myfanwy.  Written at Selsfield House where Edward Thomas spent time as a paying guest in the winter of 1912 and the spring of 1914, and where Edward and Helen Thomas came to spend the last four days of his leave visiting friends.  It reveals Edward Thomas' close involvement with his children during his leaves from the army.  The manuscript is untitled but is labeled 'The Gallows' in 'Edward Thomas Collected Poems'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2gxi.2
title: German Retreat to the Hindenburg Line

description: Party of British troops in the ruined village of Brie.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2jef.2
title: The Interview

description: Pencil draft of a single manuscript addressed for a 'Competition' held by the 'Saturday Westminster (Gazette)'. Signed 'Signed I.B. Gurney'.  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/bodleian2mbz.2
title: The Lock-Keeper

description: Manuscript in black ink in Ivor Gurney's hand. Numerous versions of the poem exists in notebooks and letters. This version was included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004). A shorter draft of the poem appears in 'War's Embers' (1919) with the inscription 'To the memory of Edward Thomas'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2qb3.2
title: Road from Ypres to Sint-Juliaan

description: The road from Ypres to Sint-Juliaan in the distance, (St. Julien as it was known to the British). Behind the photographer is a farm near the site of the farm known to the troops as Cheddar Villa.""Silent pickets"" or posts for barbed wire can be seen holding up the farm's fence.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2rbu.2
title: A party of WAACs (Women's Auxiliary Army Corps) marching through Etaples
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian4gd.2
title: Pilkem Ridge: View down the 'hill' looking towards Bikschote
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian63zf.2
title: Women's Auxiliary Army Corps tending the graves of the fallen in France

description: Two WAACs are carrying wreaths, inscribed 'to dear son, to Fred from Mother', in a cemetery at Abbeville.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6541.2
title: The Crimson Notebook

description: Rear cover of a red notebook inscribed 'Pte Gurney / 2/5 Gloucesters', used by Gurney, principally at Rouen, during May-June 1917 and containing various notes and drafts of poems.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian674l.2
title: A New Heaven

description: Probably written at Witley. One MS gives September 1916 as the date. This is no. 72 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6ehj.2
title: Farewell

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand on loose lined paper, marked 'asking to type and keep or get printed'. Page finishes 'one touch to dwell on.', and the next 4 lines run sideways along the margins, with the final 3 lines on the reverse of the paper. 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/bodleian6fmr.2
title: No one cares less than I

description: The manuscript is untitled and is named here after its first line.  It is no 120 in 'Edward Thomas Collected Poems'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6k88.2
title: The Battle of the Somme 1 July-18 November 1916

description: The Battle of Flers Courcelette 15 -22 September: Men of the 2nd Auckland Battalion (New Zealand) in a switch trench near Flers.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6qlr.2
title: Operations on the Ancre

description: Working party of the Manchester Regiment moving up to the trenches.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6x49.2
title: Uplands Cemetery
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian83ws.2
title: Strange Hells

description: Typescript of poem without any alterations prepared by Marion Scott, and possibly amongst those poems submitted to and rejected by the firm Sidgwick and Jackson in 1922. Various versions of the poem survive. This version was included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian84lk.2
title: Dummy Dead German

description: This dummy was used at the camouflage school at Kensington Gardens to teach about a device used by the enemy on different parts of their front. Similar dummies were dressed in capured khaki to appear like British soldiers. These were placed in no-man's-land and by means of a cord an arm was raised as if for assistance. Sometimes the dummy was made to sit up. Generally the head was bound up in bandages. The idea was to lure British troops to effect a rescue.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8ea.2
title: Tobacco

description: Typescript of poem without any alterations prepared by Marion Scott, and possibly amongst those poems submitted to and rejected by the firm Sidgwick and Jackson in 1922. Numerous versions of the poem survive, including one printed in 'The London Mercury' in 1924. This version was included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004). Alternative versions include an additional 8 lines at the end of the poem, substantially altering its overall mood.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8f4f.2
title: Blank pages

description: From a red notebook inscribed 'Pte Gurney / 2/5 Gloucesters', used by Gurney, principally at Rouen, during May-June 1917 and containing various notes and drafts of poems.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8h86.2
title: German Retreat to the Hindenburg Line

description: British troops with French children in Vraignes.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8t49.2
title: A New Heaven

description: Probably written at Witley. One MS gives September 1916 as the date. This is no. 72 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8u4i.2
title: Pilkem Ridge: View down the 'hill' looking towards Boezinge
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8vza.2
title: Members of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAACs) tending the graves of fallen British soldiers in a cemetery at Abbeville
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianabp.2
title: Farewell

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand on loose lined paper, marked 'asking to type and keep or get printed'. Page finishes 'one touch to dwell on.', and the next 4 lines run sideways along the margins, with the final 3 lines on the reverse of the paper. 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/bodleiand2ae.2
title: The Ballad of Lady Yolande

description: This is no. 84 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand3hh.2
title: The Lock-Keeper

description: Manuscript in black ink in Ivor Gurney's hand. Numerous versions of the poem exists in notebooks and letters. This version was included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004). A shorter draft of the poem appears in 'War's Embers' (1919) with the inscription 'To the memory of Edward Thomas'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand4u7.2
title: The Interview

description: Pencil draft of a single manuscript addressed for a 'Competition' held by the 'Saturday Westminster (Gazette)'. Signed 'Signed I.B. Gurney'.  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/bodleiand563.2
title: Women's Auxiliary Army Corps and soldiers on the edge of a crater caused by an enemy bomb dropped in their camp during a raid on Abbeville
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand761.2
title: Sunrise

description: Drafted in France in early May 1917, revised January-February 1918. This is a later revision of the poem, and no. 140 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand93c.2
title: The Trumpet

description: Written whilst Edward Thomas began his field-training as an officer cadet with the Royal Artillery in London.  He had first been attracted by the trumpets in barracks in Trowbridge in October 1916.  This manuscript is untitled but is labeled 'The Trumpet' in 'Edward Thomas Collected Poems'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianddct.2
title: South African Officers

description: South African Officers at lunch.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandluf.2
title: Laventie

description: Typescript of poem without any alterations prepared by Marion Scott, and possibly amongst those poems submitted to and rejected by the firm Sidgwick and Jackson in 1922. Numerous versions of the poem survive, and this one may have been supervised by the poet Edmund Blunden. A similar version to the one shown here was included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandomk.2
title: View of Ypres and Sanctuary Wood from Hill 62
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandrlw.2
title: The Lock-Keeper

description: Manuscript in black ink in Ivor Gurney's hand. Numerous versions of the poem exists in notebooks and letters. This version was included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004). A shorter draft of the poem appears in 'War's Embers' (1919) with the inscription 'To the memory of Edward Thomas'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandugd.2
title: The sun used to shine

description: The poem refers to a holiday spent by Edward Thomas and his family with the American  poet Robert Frost while he was staying in Herefordshire in August 1914.  The occasion is probably the receipt of a letter from Frost on 21 May 1916 after a long silence.  The manuscript is untitled but is labeled 'The sun used to shine' in 'Edward Thomas Collected Poems'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandy28.2
title: With an Identity Disc

description: A revison of line 12. Drafted on 23 March 1917 in France; a fair copy was included in a letter to Colin Owen on 24 March 1917. Revised at Craiglockhart in August-September 1917. This is no. 91 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandzhd.2
title: Nurses on a British ambulance train near Doullens with their pet canaries

description: The canaries were kept not only to cheer the wounded but also to give warning of gas attacks.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianfqs.2
title: A New Heaven

description: Probably written at Witley. One MS gives September 1916 as the date. This is no. 72 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj2cg.2
title: Building Ruins

description: Possibly a brewery.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj43n.2
title: Blenheim oranges

description: Written while resting from mathematical training in London at his parents' home.  Lines 17-24 recall Edward Thomas' affection for the old London houses of his youth.  This manuscript is untitled but it is labeled 'Blenheim Oranges' in 'Edward Thomas Collected Poems'.  This is after the title provided by Edward Thomas to in a letter to Eleanor Farjeon of 19 September 1916.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjamr.2
title: Trenches at Hill 62 Sanctuary Wood Museum

description: The Allied trenches at Sanctuary Wood, near Hill 62 (also known as Tor Top). Although the trenches have obviously been shored up with corrugated iron/zinc the shape of the trench system with zig-zags, traverses, bastions and dug-outs gives the visitors (and there are many) a very good feel for what a trench was like.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjb4.2
title: Women's Auxiliary Army Corps at Etaples wearing their uniform of heavy coats and sturdy boots
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjc66.2
title: The Ballad of Lady Yolande

description: This is no. 84 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjd28.2
title: Pilkem Ridge: Crossroads looking towards Langemark

description: A plaque to the memory of the poet Hedd Wyn is located further along this road from Boezinge to Langemark, just after Pilkem at a cross roads on a building opposite De Sportman bar. Ellis Humphrey Evans (bardic name Hedd Wyn) served as a Private in the 15th Battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. The memorial plaque records that he was mortally wounded near-by on the 31st of July 1917.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjgr3.2
title: The interior of a ward on a British ambulance train

description: Photograph shows the narrow aisle and triple bunks with nurses, patients and orderlies, near Doullens.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjl67.2
title: A general view of the interior of the British Red Cross Society and OSJJ Recreation Hut at Wimereux

description: In the foreground can be seen VAD Commandant Miss Barber, standing at a table. In the background, chatting to some of the soldiers are Miss Scott (background right) and Miss Dixon (right). A large mural can be seen on the back wall.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjo8w.2
title: A New Heaven

description: Probably written at Witley. This MS gives 'Sept. 1916' as the date. This is no. 72 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjqus.2
title: Strange Hells

description: Typescript of poem without any alterations prepared by Marion Scott, and possibly amongst those poems submitted to and rejected by the firm Sidgwick and Jackson in 1922. Various versions of the poem survive. This version differs substantially from the one that was included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjsny.2
title: Essex Farm Cemetery: dressing station in concrete bunkers

description: Restored and recently re-opened Allied bunker next to the canal by Essex Farm Cemetery, dating from circa September 1916. It was in this immediate vicinity on 2nd or 3rd May 1915 that the Canadian major (later lieutenant colonel) and doctor John McCrae wrote 'In Flanders Fields'. He was working in this medical aid station where he cared for the wounded from the 1st Canadian Artillery Brigade, which was lined up on top of the Canal Bank. He also looked after many casualties who were brought from the battlefields near St Julien during the heavy fighting after the gas attack of 22nd April 1915. The Essex Farm Cemetery also came into being in those days. From September 1916, numerous reinforced dugouts were built in the left and right banks of the canal by the Royal Engineers of the 38th (Welsh) Division. On account of the incessant firing from the bridges across the canal and from the Canal Bank, constant repairs had to be carried out. More and more concrete was used to do this work. During preparation for the major offensive in the summer of 1917, various advanced dressing stations, such as Dulhallows, Talana Farm, and Essex Farm, were built at the bottom of the West Side of the Canal Bank. From here, the wounded were evacuated by motorised ambulances to the Main Dressing Stations, Casualty Clearing Stations, and Base Hospitals behind the front."
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjuu1.2
title: Laventie

description: Typescript of poem without any alterations prepared by Marion Scott, and possibly amongst those poems submitted to and rejected by the firm Sidgwick and Jackson in 1922. Numerous versions of the poem survive, and this one may have been supervised by the poet Edmund Blunden. A similar version to the one shown here was included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjxb3.2
title: Early one morning

description: The poem reflects Edward Thomas' lifelong interest in folk songs.  It is also a reaction to the upheaval caused by the loss of his hill-top study in Steep and the family's move to Essex.  The manuscript is untitled but is labeled 'Early one morning in May I set out 'in Edward Thomas Collected Poems'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianmm.2
title: Early one morning

description: The poem reflects Edward Thomas' lifelong interest in folk songs.  It is also a reaction to the upheaval caused by the loss of his hill-top study in Steep and the family's move to Essex.  The manuscript is untitled but is labeled 'Early one morning in May I set out 'in 'Edward Thomas Collected Poems'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianr2ha.2
title: The Dark Forest

description: The final stanza probably reflects Edward Thomas' feelings after visiting his parents in London.  Soon afterwards his mother had an eye operation.  Written at a firing camp in Wiltshire to which Thomas had been moved.  The manuscript is untitled and is labeled 'Dark is the forest and deep, and overhead' in Thomas 'Edward Thomas Collected Poems' and 'The Dark Forest by Longley 'Edward Thomas: The Annotated Collected Poems'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianrewb.2
title: Tobacco

description: Typescript of poem without any alterations prepared by Marion Scott, and possibly amongst those poems submitted to and rejected by the firm Sidgwick and Jackson in 1922. Numerous versions of the poem survive, including one printed in 'The London Mercury' in 1924. This version was included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004). Alternative versions include an additional 8 lines at the end of the poem, substantially altering its overall mood.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiant87.2
title: French phrases

description: Notes in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. From a red notebook inscribed 'Pte Gurney / 2/5 Gloucesters', used by Gurney, principally at Rouen, during May-June 1917 and containing various notes and drafts of poems.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiantpq.2
title: Half Dead

description: Typescript with corrections in pencil and pen in unknown hand. Typed Marion Scott, and possibly amongst those poems submitted to and rejected by the firm Sidgwick and Jackson in 1922. Various versions of the poem survive, including two shorter versions ending on lines 12 and 8. This version was included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianw26.2
title: Pilkem Ridge: View down the 'hill' looking towards Langemark

description: A plaque to the memory of the poet Hedd Wyn is located further along the road from Boezinge to Langemark, just after Pilkem at a cross roads on a building opposite De Sportman bar. Ellis Humphrey Evans (bardic name Hedd Wyn) served as a Private in the 15th Battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. The memorial plaque records that he was mortally wounded near-by on the 31st of July 1917.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianzxb.2
title: The British Army on the Western Front, March 1917

description: British troops in a captured German trench at Serre, March 1917. Serre was occupied by men of the 7th, 9th and 62nd Divisions on 25 February 1917 during the preliminary stages of the German withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian1eb.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott

description: Written whilst Ivor Gurney was a patient at the Middlesex War Hospital, St. Albans. Thanks Scott for 'the Carnegie article' / is anxious to know her opinion of the poems 'Toussaints', 'The Stonebreaker', 'Farm' and 'On Rest' / has just written a poem titled 'O Tree of Pride' / wants to return to Gloucester to write / looking forward to a possible visit / describes the current beauty of the weather.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian22tc.2
title: Visit of the King of the Belgians to the British Western Front

description: General Pulteney being introduced to the King of the Belgians by General Sir H. Rawlinson.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian248i.2
title: Indian cavalry of the Jodhpore and Mysore Lancers, 16th (Imperial Service) Cavalry Brigade passing through Haifa following the city's capture from the Turks
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian26wt.2
title: Trenches at Hill 62 Sanctuary Wood Museum

description: The Allied trenches at Sanctuary Wood, near Hill 62 (also known as Tor Top). Although the trenches have obviously been shored up with corrugated iron/zinc the shape of the trench system with zig-zags, traverses, bastions and dug-outs gives the visitors (and there are many) a very good feel for what a trench was like.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian27px.2
title: New Year's Eve

description: Typescript of poem prepared by Marion Scott, and possibly amongst those poems submitted to and rejected by the firm Sidgwick and Jackson in 1922. Various versions of the poem survive. This version differs substantially from the one that was initially published in 'The London Mercury' in 1924, and was included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2cpd.2
title: Site of the Beaurevoir-Fonsomme Line

description: Taken from the site of the Beaurevoir-Fonsomme Line,  initially known as the ""Hindenburg Support Line"" looking east, just outside Joncourt.  The valley  is the location where Owen advanced with the 2nd Manchesters at 8.30am on 29th September 1918 and won his Military Cross decoration.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2lnu.2
title: February Afternoon

description: Written after having caught a chill and resting in bed on leave from Hare Hall Camp.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2nhi.2
title: The Ash Grove
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2set.2
title: The Ballad of Lady Yolande

description: This is no. 84 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2u5l.2
title: I Saw England

description: Typescript prepared by Marion Scott, and possibly amongst those poems submitted to and rejected by the firm Sidgwick and Jackson in 1922.  Multiple versions of the poem survive in other notebooks. The version shown here was included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2wv.2
title: Trenches at Hill 62 Sanctuary Wood Museum

description: The Allied trenches at Sanctuary Wood, near Hill 62 (also known as Tor Top). Although the trenches have obviously been shored up with corrugated iron/zinc the shape of the trench system with zig-zags, traverses, bastions and dug-outs gives the visitors (and there are many) a very good feel for what a trench was like.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2yei.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott

description: Written whilst Ivor Gurney was a patient at the Middlesex War Hospital, St. Albans. Thanks Scott for 'the Carnegie article' / is anxious to know her opinion of the poems 'Toussaints', 'The Stonebreaker', 'Farm' and 'On Rest' / has just written a poem titled 'O Tree of Pride' / wants to return to Gloucester to write / looking forward to a possible visit / describes the current beauty of the weather.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian5n4.2
title: I may come near loving you

description: Refers to relationship between Edward Thomas' father Philip Henry Thomas, who wanted Edward Thomas to take a commission, and as such was temporarily hostile to his poetry.  The manuscript is untitled but is labeled 'I may come near to loving you' in 'Edward Thomas Collected Poems'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6248.2
title: Mounted Sherifan troops (seen from behind) and an open car passing through the dusty streets of Damascus

description: The Battle of Megiddo, September 1918.