cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian24es.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Thanks Edward Thomas for a book that he sent / tells of reading 'The Land of Youth' / a football match / love from the family.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian266x.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (1)

description: Describes exchanging billets with Edward Brittain's men / the contemplative vs. the active life / Vera Brittain's 21st birthday.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian26q.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (2)

description: Thanks Vera Brittain for sending Rupert Brooke's '1914 and Other Poems' / reaction to it / returning to the trenches tomorrow / death of an officer and attending the funeral / urges Vera not to work too hard in the hospital / requests socks to be knit by Vera's mother / attempts to obtain leave.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian27rl.2
title: Typed copy of a diary (22)

description: Typed copy of a diary
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2gbr.2
title: The Lock-Keeper

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Found in a black hard-cover exercise book inscribed 'I.B. Gurney / 1 Westfield Terrace / Longford / Gloucester'.  The poem exists in various drafts. A shorter poem with the same title, inscribed 'To the memory of Edward Thomas', was included in 'War's Embers' (1919). The version shown here was included in Edmund Blunden and Leonard Clark's editions of Gurney poems in 1954 and 1973 respectively.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2ixg.2
title: Preface / Table of Contents

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/bodleian2mtf.2
title: Certificate of catering course passed for Joseph Witham

description: Certificate: Catering Course passed.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2vvs.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (4)

description: Describes exchanging billets with Edward Brittain's men / the contemplative vs. the active life / Vera Brittain's 21st birthday.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2wpl.2
title: Directorate of Agricultural Production

description: Growing celery along the bottom of an old communication trench.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2zp9.2
title: The Calls

description: Possibly written earlier, and revised in May 1918. This is no. 157 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6291.2
title: The Queen's Garden

description: A fairy tale written for Edward and Helen Thomas' children.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian64q2.2
title: Miners

description: This is no. 139 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian65zv.2
title: Typed copy of a diary (24)

description: Typed copy of a diary
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian668r.2
title: In Retreat

description: This long poem is written in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand, in a notebook headed 'Poems to Old New England of Ivor Gurney', and is dedicated 'To Staten Island / in the name of Alan Seeger / Walt Whitman / Leo Count Tolstoy', with an explanatory note regarding each of these figures. These poems were written while Gurney was a patient at Stone House, Dartford, Kent, otherwise known as the City of London Mental Hospital.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian691v.2
title: Ypres in Ruins

description: Artillery limbers passing through the snow-covered ruins.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian69ly.2
title: Volumes of poetry also published by Sidgwick and Jackson

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/bodleian6eys.2
title: Pay book (2)

description: Pay book
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6la1.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (2)

description: Pleasure at reading Vera Brittain's letters / discusses Speech Day at school and meeting Vera / love-letters / requests Rupert Brooke's poems / discusses photographs / current location and the trenches / lack of changes from one day to the next in army life / talking to the men / riding the train in France / arriving at billets / a picturesque French village / the sunset / being sent to Headquarters and new position there.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6mvo.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Mentions tea party / scouting / the moon / Helen Thomas' health.  Includes a drawing labeled 'Indian Camp'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6qxp.2
title: Had I A Song / The Lock-Keeper

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Found in a black hard-cover exercise book inscribed 'I.B. Gurney / 1 Westfield Terrace / Longford / Gloucester'. 'Had I a Song' was included in Leonard Clark's edition of Gurney poems of 1973, and in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004). 'The Lock-Keeper', with the opening shown on these pages, exists in various drafts. A shorter poem with the same title, inscribed 'To the memory of Edward Thomas', was included in 'War's Embers' (1919). The version shown here was included in Edmund Blunden and Leonard Clark's editions of Gurney poems in 1954 and 1973 respectively. Written while Gurney was a patient at Middlesex War Hospital, St Albans.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian828k.2
title: In Retreat

description: This long poem is written in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand, in a notebook headed 'Poems to Old New England of Ivor Gurney', and is dedicated 'To Staten Island / in the name of Alan Seeger / Walt Whitman / Leo Count Tolstoy', with an explanatory note regarding each of these figures. These poems were written while Gurney was a patient at Stone House, Dartford, Kent, otherwise known as the City of London Mental Hospital.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian84xn.2
title: Crucifix Corner

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Another version of the poem can be found in the pink manuscript exercise book 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/bodleian86k8.2
title: O true to the old equities and sureties

description: This is no. 156 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian89qr.2
title: Miners

description: This is no. 139 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8avl.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Mentions health / receiving a whig to play with / family and friends / receiving a letter from Edward Thomas.  Includes a drawing of a house and a rooster.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8d9f.2
title: The Queen's Garden

description: A fairy tale written for Edward and Helen Thomas' children.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8fzw.2
title: Typed copy of a diary (23)

description: Typed copy of a diary
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8m1w.2
title: Directorate of Agricultural Production.

description: Tending potato crop.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8ml5.2
title: Pain / Servitude (Sonnets 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 'Pain' was written at Crucifix Corner [on the Somme] and 'Servitude' was written at Arras. These poems are part of a sonnet sequence dedicated to the English poet Rupert Brooke.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8ntu.2
title: In Retreat

description: This long poem is written in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand, in a notebook headed 'Poems to Old New England of Ivor Gurney', and is dedicated 'To Staten Island / in the name of Alan Seeger / Walt Whitman / Leo Count Tolstoy', with an explanatory note regarding each of these figures. These poems were written while Gurney was a patient at Stone House, Dartford, Kent, otherwise known as the City of London Mental Hospital.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian9e7.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Mentions health / receiving a whig to play with / family and friends / receiving a letter from Edward Thomas.  Includes a drawing of a house and a rooster.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianata.2
title: Typed copy of a diary (25)

description: Typed copy of a diary
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiancp9.2
title: Directorate of Agricultural Production

description: Troops stacking wheat.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand3y7.2
title: Typed copy of a diary (26)

description: Typed copy of a diary
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand885.2
title: First Time In ['The Captain addresses us...']

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. An alternative version exists as a typescript with one different line, and another manuscript draft can be found 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/bodleiandbup.2
title: Battle of the St. Quentin Canal

description: Part of the Canal where a crossing was effected by the 46th Division on 29th September. 137 Staffs. Infantry Brigade.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandejg.2
title: The roads also have their wistful rest

description: This is no. 172 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandffd.2
title: In Retreat

description: This long poem is written in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand, in a notebook headed 'Poems to Old New England of Ivor Gurney', and is dedicated 'To Staten Island / in the name of Alan Seeger / Walt Whitman / Leo Count Tolstoy', with an explanatory note regarding each of these figures. These poems were written while Gurney was a patient at Stone House, Dartford, Kent, otherwise known as the City of London Mental Hospital.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandiz2.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (2)

description: Describes exchanging billets with Edward Brittain's men / the contemplative vs. the active life / Vera Brittain's 21st birthday.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandp73.2
title: The Calls

description: Possibly written earlier, and revised in May 1918. This is no. 157 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandtti.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/bodleianipi.2
title: 1914

description: Drafted in late 1914 in France, and revised in October-November 1917 at Craiglockhart or in November 1917-January 1918 at Scarborough. This copy is titled 'The Seed' and is dated 1914, but was rewritten in 1917 at Craiglockhart. This is no. 113 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj5y3.1
title: In Retreat

description: This long poem is written in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand, in a notebook headed 'Poems to Old New England of Ivor Gurney', and is dedicated 'To Staten Island / in the name of Alan Seeger / Walt Whitman / Leo Count Tolstoy', with an explanatory note regarding each of these figures. These poems were written while Gurney was a patient at Stone House, Dartford, Kent, otherwise known as the City of London Mental Hospital.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj7t9.2
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/bodleianj8jq.2
title: Miners

description: This is no. 139 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj9qm.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (5)

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/bodleianjg6j.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'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjicz.2
title: Typed copy of a diary (21)

description: Typed copy of a diary
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjj8y.2
title: First Time In

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. This is a different version of the poems 'First Time In ('After the dread...')' and 'First Time In ('The Captain...'). 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/bodleianjpuz.2
title: The Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) 31 July-10 November 1917

description: Foot of the Broodseinde Ridge, south of Passchendaele, Belgium. The woods and no-man's-land through which the Germans attacked a few minutes before an ANZAC advance on 4th October 1917. Nearest unit 1st ANZAC Corps.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjt77.2
title: Miners

description: This is no. 139 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjzze.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (3)

description: Thanks Vera Brittain for sending Rupert Brooke's '1914 and Other Poems' / reaction to it / returning to the trenches tomorrow / death of an officer and attending the funeral / urges Vera not to work too hard in the hospital / requests socks to be knit by Vera's mother / attempts to obtain leave.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiannv7.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (3)

description: Describes exchanging billets with Edward Brittain's men / the contemplative vs. the active life / Vera Brittain's 21st birthday.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianr8jc.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (1)

description: Thanks Vera Brittain for sending Rupert Brooke's '1914 and Other Poems' / reaction to it / returning to the trenches tomorrow / death of an officer and attending the funeral / urges Vera not to work too hard in the hospital / requests socks to be knit by Vera's mother / attempts to obtain leave.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianrey.2
title: Battle of St. Quentin Canal

description: Australian and American Troops at the southern entrance of the St. Quentin Canal Tunnel, captured by 30th American Division on 29th September 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiantr9.2
title: Typed copy of a diary (20)

description: Typed copy of a diary
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianv5w.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Mentions tea party / scouting / the moon / Helen Thomas' health.  Includes a drawing labeled 'Indian Camp'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianx5a.2
title: Indian soldiers at Rufiji, German East Africa 1916
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianxxt.2
title: Home-Sickness / England the Mother (Sonnets 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 both 'Home-sickness', with numerous alterations in pen in Gurney's hand, and 'England the Mother' were written at Arras. These poems are part of a sonnet sequence dedicated to the English poet Rupert Brooke.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianyf6.2
title: I Saw England

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. This is a draft containing parts of the poem 'I Saw England - July Night', found in the black manuscript exercise book 64.4 and as a typescript. The reference to 'Will Squele' in line 13 can be found as the 'Cotswold man' of Shakespeare's '11 Henry IV', and line 15 beginning 'Sussex tales out of Roman' probably refers to Rudyard Kipling's 'Puck of Pook Hill'. 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/bodleianzbk.2
title: I Saw England

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. This is an eight line draft of the longer poem, which exists as a typescript and can be found in the green manuscript exercise book 64.3. Found in a black hard-cover exercise book inscribed 'I.B. Gurney / 1 Westfield Terrace / Longford / Gloucester'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian1jo.2
title: Photographs of the sportsman and soldier Frederick Matson
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian223u.2
title: Fire in the Dusk

description: Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. Two other manuscript drafts of the poem exist. One was included in a letter to Marion Scott of 24th August 1917, and all 3 drafts remain consistent. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919). Found in a coverless notebook used by Gurney from late August to mid-September 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian299z.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (4)

description: Pleasure at reading Vera Brittain's letters / discusses Speech Day at school and meeting Vera / love-letters / requests Rupert Brooke's poems / discusses photographs / current location and the trenches / lack of changes from one day to the next in army life / talking to the men / riding the train in France / arriving at billets / a picturesque French village / the sunset / being sent to Headquarters and new position there.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2a7z.1
title: In Retreat

description: This long poem is written in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand, in a notebook headed 'Poems to Old New England of Ivor Gurney', and is dedicated 'To Staten Island / in the name of Alan Seeger / Walt Whitman / Leo Count Tolstoy', with an explanatory note regarding each of these figures. These poems were written while Gurney was a patient at Stone House, Dartford, Kent, otherwise known as the City of London Mental Hospital.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2hd5.2
title: With an Identity Disc

description: The image shows the verso of the draft, including only the title for 'Sunrise'. 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 manuscript is entitled by Owen as 'Sonnet to my friend with an identity disc' and is no. 91 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2i5f.2
title: Soldiers of the Nigerian Brigade Ndanda, German East Africa 1918
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2yjk.2
title: National Registration Act card, Margaret Matson

description: National Registration Act card, Margaret Matson
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian68dj.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (7)

description: Pleasure at reading Vera Brittain's letters / discusses Speech Day at school and meeting Vera / love-letters / requests Rupert Brooke's poems / discusses photographs / current location and the trenches / lack of changes from one day to the next in army life / talking to the men / riding the train in France / arriving at billets / a picturesque French village / the sunset / being sent to Headquarters and new position there.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6dm.2
title: With an Identity Disc

description: 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 manuscript is entitled by Owen as 'Sonnet to my friend with an identity disc' and is no. 91 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6gjo.2
title: Strafe

description: Poem from a letter to Marion Scott which notes that he is well, / mentions Mrs Voynich / inquires after Mr Scott and Audrey / French / attitudes to the English / matches and food / wishes for complimentary copies of the 'Times Literary Supplement' in the trenches / wonders about proofs of 'Severn and Somme' from Sidgwick and Jackson / includes the poems 'Strafe', 'Letters', 'Shortage' and 'Paean'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6h1w.2
title: The Promisers

description: This is no. 94 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6j7s.2
title: Buglers of The Nigeria Regiment sound the Hause 'Farewell'
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6krq.2
title: The Lock-Keeper

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Found in a black hard-cover exercise book inscribed 'I.B. Gurney / 1 Westfield Terrace / Longford / Gloucester'. The poem exists in various drafts. A shorter poem with the same title, inscribed 'To the memory of Edward Thomas', was included in 'War's Embers' (1919). The version shown here was included in Edmund Blunden and Leonard Clark's editions of Gurney poems in 1954 and 1973 respectively.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6s8e.2
title: Pay book (3)

description: Pay book
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6tso.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (2)

description: Describes searching for a sniper / will move to another farm in the evening / difficulty of transporting all of Vera Brittain's lovers / asks if she will keep them.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6vqe.2
title: Two WRNS ratings on the quayside at Lowestoft  painting mines and steel floats 1918
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6vta.1
title: In Retreat

description: This long poem is written in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand, in a notebook headed 'Poems to Old New England of Ivor Gurney', and is dedicated 'To Staten Island / in the name of Alan Seeger / Walt Whitman / Leo Count Tolstoy', with an explanatory note regarding each of these figures. These poems were written while Gurney was a patient at Stone House, Dartford, Kent, otherwise known as the City of London Mental Hospital.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6weh.2
title: Training

description: Probably written at Scarborough. This is no. 158 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian83c3.2
title: Girls Song [The Tryst]

description: Manuscript in pencil with corrections in ink and pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand of a poem here titled 'Girls Song' but which was later to be titled 'The Tryst'. Under the title given here the poem was sent to Marion Scott in a letter of 10 September 1918. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919). Found in a coverless notebook used by Gurney from late August to mid-September 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian85af.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (1)

description: Pleasure at reading Vera Brittain's letters / discusses Speech Day at school and meeting Vera / love-letters / requests Rupert Brooke's poems / discusses photographs / current location and the trenches / lack of changes from one day to the next in army life / talking to the men / riding the train in France / arriving at billets / a picturesque French village / the sunset / being sent to Headquarters and new position there.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8877.2
title: Women's Royal Naval Service: A group of new WRNS officers drill at Chrystal Palace
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8cey.2
title: The Kind Ghosts

description: Revised on 30 July 1918 but possibly written earlier. This is no. 169 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8edh.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (6)

description: Pleasure at reading Vera Brittain's letters / discusses Speech Day at school and meeting Vera / love-letters / requests Rupert Brooke's poems / discusses photographs / current location and the trenches / lack of changes from one day to the next in army life / talking to the men / riding the train in France / arriving at billets / a picturesque French village / the sunset / being sent to Headquarters and new position there.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8g82.2
title: Pay book (2)

description: Pay book