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DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjm7y.2
title: In Parenthesis broadcast script, 1946

description: David Jones' Typescript copy of the doubling up of the cast to cover all parts 'In Parenthesis' (November 1946). The cast list includes Richard Burton, Valentine Dyell [sic] [Valentine Dyall], Carleton Hobbs, Emrys Jones, Leonard Sachs, Abraham Sofaer and Dylan Thomas. 'In Parenthesis' was adapted for the wireless (radio) by Douglas Cleverdon and was scheduled to be broadcast on Armistice Day 1939, but all schedules were cancelled after the outbreak of the Second World War. A shortened version was rehearsed in 1942 but this too was cancelled. In this 1946 broadcast the introduction was written and was pre-recorded by David Jones. The first radio performance of 'In Parenthesis' made a profound effect on many of those listening.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjnq5.2
title: Letter: To Edward Marsh

description: Discusses family's reaction to Isaac Rosenberg's report of ill health / the effect of winter on his health / possiblitity of having been reassigned due to complaints about ill health / whether or not Edward Marsh could do something to help him obtain a transfer away from the frontlines / potential to be transferred back to the United Kingdom for home duty to work as a draughtsman / Harriet Monroe's 'Poetry' Magazine in Chicago having published some of his poems.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjuzq.2
title: Siegfried Sassoon reading 'The Power and the Glory'
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjv43.1
title: The Wrestlers

description: Preliminary workings. This is no. 138 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiank6e.2
title: Letter: To Edward Marsh

description: Describes having been returned to the trenches / has been forbidden to send more poems home by the censor / has sent a poem to the 'Nation' to see if it will consider publishing it / received the second volume of 'Georgian Poetry' / praises Rupert Brooke's poem 'Clouds' / correspondence with Gordon Bottomley / possibility of being reassigned as a military artist.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiank7i.1
title: War Diary: Tuesday April 18th.

description: Describes anticipation of departure overseas / tea and discussion with Mrs. Brittain.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianrae.2
title: In Parenthesis broadcast script, 1946

description: David Jones' copy of his introduction (Typescript) to the broadcast of 'In Parenthesis' (Part VII) written and produced by Douglas Cleverdon, transmitted on 19th and 20th November 1946 by the BBC Third Programme. 'In Parenthesis' was adapted for the wireless (radio) by Douglas Cleverdon and was scheduled to be broadcast on Armistice Day 1939, but all schedules were cancelled after the outbreak of the Second World War. A shortened version was rehearsed in 1942 but this too was cancelled. In this 1946 broadcast the introduction was written and was pre-recorded by David Jones, and the cast included actors like Richard Burton and Dylan Thomas.The first radio performance of 'In Parenthesis' made a profound effect on many of those listening.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianrdr2.2
title: Effect of rum issued before going over the top, prior to Loos attack, 1915.

description: British NCO served with 1/6th Bn London Regt on Western Front, 1915-1916; officer served on training duties and recreational training in GB and France, 1918-1919
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianreop.2
title: In Parenthesis broadcast script, 1946

description: David Jones' copy of the broadcast script (Typescript) for the BBC announcer for 'In Parenthesis' written and produced by Douglas Cleverdon, transmitted on 19th and 20th November 1946 by the BBC Third Programme. 'In Parenthesis' was adapted for the wireless (radio) by Douglas Cleverdon and was scheduled to be broadcast on Armistice Day 1939, but all schedules were cancelled after the outbreak of the Second World War. A shortened version was rehearsed in 1942 but this too was cancelled. In this 1946 broadcast the introduction was written and was pre-recorded by David Jones, and the cast included actors like Richard Burton and Dylan Thomas. The first radio performance of 'In Parenthesis' made a profound effect on many of those listening.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianz1g.1
title: War Diary: Monday March 13th.

description: Describes arrival of various letters / assisting at an operation during which Vera Brittain imagines the patient to be Roland Leighton.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian219u.1
title: The Sisters Buried at Lemnos

description: Entitled here as 'Sisters' Graves at Lemnos'. This poems was published in 'Verses of a V.A.D.' (1918), and  'Poems of the War and After' (1934)" Versions also published in 'St Monica's School Notes', 1915-1916 in October 1916 and 'Oxford Magazine', 11 May 1917.  Brittain was stationed on the hospital ship the HMHS Britannic, at Mudros Bay, Lemnos in 1916 when she saw the graves of three Canadian sisters who died nursing in the camp hospital there.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian27c3.2
title: Method of clearing German dugouts in Loos attack, 1915.

description: British NCO served with 1/6th Bn London Regt on Western Front, 1915-1916; officer served on training duties and recreational training in GB and France, 1918-1919
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2b9d.2
title: Letter: To Edward Marsh

description: Discusses Edward Marsh's criticism of the poem 'Dead Man's Dump' / previous criticism from the poem Laurence Binyon / the need to fix an idea for a poem immediately given the conditions at the front / rhythms for the poems / Andrew Marvell's poetry / intention of sending on another poem via Isaac Rosenberg's sister Annie soon / the improved weather / sleeping outside in the rain / an ill bivouc-mate.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2cwk.2
title: The Hydra: June 1918

description: Continues report from the 'Officers' Club' at Craiglockhart War Hospital on sporting and intellectual activities supported by the club / lists club secretaries.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2g1q.1
title: War Diary: Sunday January 2nd.

description: Describes receiving letters detailing Roland Leighton's death and burial / visit to Keymer by Vera Brittain's mother / leave from hospital / Vera Brittain's imagining of idealised burial / sitting with Mrs. Leighton.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2isd.2
title: In Parenthesis - drafts of notes, maps, inserts and correspondence

description: Notes related to 'In Parenthesis'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2jgc.2
title: Signallers of the R.G.A. using a daylight lamp in a shell hole.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2pmi.1
title: S.I.W.

description: Drafted in September 1917 at Craiglockhart and revised in May 1918 at Ripon. This is no. 155 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2r1d.2
title: The Hydra: June 1918

description: Continues from previous issues with 'Evolving Edinburgh' by 'A. J. B.'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2uxn.2
title: Trench digging in preparation for Loos attack, 1915.

description: British NCO served with 1/6th Bn London Regt on Western Front, 1915-1916; officer served on training duties and recreational training in GB and France, 1918-1919
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2xi6.2
title: The Hydra: June 1918

description: 'Club Notes' including the 'Railway Time Table' / report on the Debating Society / Gardening / Field Club.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian361.2
title: In Parenthesis broadcast script, typescript introduction, 1946 (annotated 1964)

description: Annotations made by David Jones in 1964 to a Typescript draft of the introduction to the broadcast script of 'In Parenthesis', written and produced by Douglas Cleverdon, transmitted on 19 November 1946 by the BBC Third Programme. The corrections are in pencil, and the documents are in a particularly bad state of wear. 'In Parenthesis' was adapted for the wireless (radio) by Douglas Cleverdon and was to be broadcast on Armistice Day 1939, but all schedules were cancelled after the outbreak of the Second World War. A shortened version was rehearsed in 1942 but this too was cancelled. In this 1946 broadcast the introduction was written and was pre-recorded by David Jones, and the cast included actors like Richard Burton and Dylan Thomas. The first radio performance of 'In Parenthesis' made a profound effect on many of those listening.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian61eu.2
title: Letter: To Edward Marsh

description: Feeling better / feet healing / unsure about the quality of recent poems / thanks for receiving various magazines and journals from Edward Marsh / not having met any 'young Oxford poets' at the front / has sent his sister Annie Rosenberg some poems to pass along.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian61p2.1
title: War Diary: Tuesday October 3rd.

description: Describes 'Britannic's' sailing and anchoring at Lemnos / visiting the island / Rupert Brooke and Vera Brittain's first hearing of the '1914' Sonnets.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian66ku.2
title: In Parenthesis - drafts of notes, maps, inserts and correspondence

description: Manuscript sketch-map of trenches facing page 193 and the frontispiece.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian69qi.2
title: In Parenthesis - drafts of notes, maps, inserts and correspondence

description: Manuscript draft concerning 'In Parenthesis' dated May 1951 explaining the sketch-map facing page 193 and the frontispiece.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6ala.2
title: Civilians knowledge of war situation.

description: British NCO served with 1/6th Bn London Regt on Western Front, 1915-1916; officer served on training duties and recreational training in GB and France, 1918-1919
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6d8y.2
title: Equipment issued to troops before Loos attack, 1915.

description: British NCO served with 1/6th Bn London Regt on Western Front, 1915-1916; officer served on training duties and recreational training in GB and France, 1918-1919
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6kw8.1
title: Letter: To Wilfred Owen / Smile, Smile, Smile

description: Draft written on the verso of a letter from Murray McClymont. The image also shows the envelope from McClymont's letter. This is no. 176 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6mmg.2
title: The Hydra: June 1918

description: Concludes poem entitled 'The Shooting of Dangerous Sub 'A' Gun' by 'Dear Archie' / 'The Drum of Fate' by William R. Lambert Patterson.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian7wo.2
title: The Hydra: June 1918

description: Continues with 'Evolving Edinburgh' by 'A. J. B.'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian83ua.1
title: War Diary: Sunday September 24th.

description: Describes exploring hospital ship 'Britannic' / destination Malta via Mudros / feeling upon watching England disappear.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8amt.2
title: The Hydra: June 1918

description: Begins poem entitled 'The Shooting of Dangerous Sub 'A' Gun' by 'Dear Archie'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8cpt.2
title: Letter: To Edward Marsh

description: Asks Edward Marsh to wait to read his new poem 'The Amulet' / new ideas for 'The Amulet' / news of air raids in London and concerns for his family / the consolations of poetry / Gordon Bottomley's work / busy at night going 'up the line' to unload barbed wire / unlikely to obtain leave soon.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8hw6.1
title: Soldier's Dream

description: Drafted in October 1917 at Craiglockhart. Revised, probably in November 1917 and July-August 1918, at Scarborough. This is an early draft. This is no. 170 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8mqb.2
title: In Parenthesis broadcast script, typescript introduction, 1946 (annotated 1964)

description: Annotations made by David Jones in 1964 to a Typescript draft of the introduction to the broadcast script of 'In Parenthesis', written and produced by Douglas Cleverdon, transmitted on 19 November 1946 by the BBC Third Programme. The corrections are in pencil, and the documents are in a particularly bad state of wear. 'In Parenthesis' was adapted for the wireless (radio) by Douglas Cleverdon and was to be broadcast on Armistice Day 1939, but all schedules were cancelled after the outbreak of the Second World War. A shortened version was rehearsed in 1942 but this too was cancelled. In this 1946 broadcast the introduction was written and was pre-recorded by David Jones, and the cast included actors like Richard Burton and Dylan Thomas. The first radio performance of 'In Parenthesis' made a profound effect on many of those listening.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8olu.2
title: How far civilians were aware of war situation.

description: British NCO served with 1/6th Bn London Regt on Western Front, 1915-1916; officer served on training duties and recreational training in GB and France, 1918-1919
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8pe.2
title: Bodies of men killed near Guillemont Farm collected for burial

description: An explicit photograph taken for the record of casualties during the last offensives.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8re4.2
title: Letter: To Edward Marsh

description: Discusses Edward Marsh's criticism of the poem 'Dead Man's Dump' / previous criticism from the poem Laurence Binyon / the need to fix an idea for a poem immediately given the conditions at the front / rhythms for the poems / Andrew Marvell's poetry / intention of sending on another poem via Isaac Rosenberg's sister Annie soon / the improved weather / sleeping outside in the rain / an ill bivouc-mate.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8rpr.1
title: War Diary: Monday March 6th.

description: Discusses Vera Brittain's volunteering for overseas service in the V. A. D.s / reasons friends may not volunteer.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8wg5.2
title: Digging for money which was buried before the German capture of Fricourt
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8x5b.2
title: Letter: To Edward Marsh

description: Describes having been examined and declared fit for duty after Edward Marsh's intervention / having written the poem 'The Louse Hunt' / the difficulties of writing under the conditions at the front / intention to send on a poem that Gordon Bottomley like in next letter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandako.2
title: Letter: To Edward Marsh

description: Describes having receied a letter from Annie Rosenberg after she has passed on the poem 'Moses' to Edward Marsh / pleasure that Marsh is showing the poem to people / colder weather / problems with feet / Gordon Bottomley's letters and prose.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandaw3.1
title: May Morning

description: Entitled here as 'May Morning at Oxford'. Published in 'St. Monica's School Notes', 1915-1916. Versions also published in 'Oxford Magazine' on 5 May 1916 and in 'Poems of the War and After' (1934).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandbvm.2
title: In Parenthesis broadcast script, 1946

description: David Jones' Typescript copy of the doubling up of the cast to cover all parts 'In Parenthesis' (November 1946). The cast list includes Richard Burton, Valentine Dyell [sic] [Valentine Dyall], Carleton Hobbs, Emrys Jones, Leonard Sachs, Abraham Sofaer and Dylan Thomas. 'In Parenthesis' was adapted for the wireless (radio) by Douglas Cleverdon and was scheduled to be broadcast on Armistice Day 1939, but all schedules were cancelled after the outbreak of the Second World War. A shortened version was rehearsed in 1942 but this too was cancelled. In this 1946 broadcast the introduction was written and was pre-recorded by David Jones. The first radio performance of 'In Parenthesis' made a profound effect on many of those listening.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandmhc.1
title: List of Contents

description: One of Owen's lists of contents for proposed book Disabled and Other Poems. Included in Appendix B of ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandqg4.2
title: The Hydra: June 1918

description: Concludes installment of  'Evolving Edinburgh' by 'A. J. B.' / poem entitled 'Stared At' by 'An Inmate'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandw85.2
title: Gas masks issued before Loos attack, 1915.

description: British NCO served with 1/6th Bn London Regt on Western Front, 1915-1916; officer served on training duties and recreational training in GB and France, 1918-1919
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj9hn.1
title: Notes for B.O.P. stories (1915-16?)

description: Notes for a story for 'The Boy's Own Paper', dating from Owen's time at Craiglockhart.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjbgu.2
title: The Hydra: June 1918

description: Report from the 'Officers' Club' at Craiglockhart War Hospital on sporting and intellectual activities supported by the club.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianje66.2
title: In Parenthesis broadcast script, 1946

description: David Jones' copy of his introduction (Typescript) to the broadcast of 'In Parenthesis' (Part VII) written and produced by Douglas Cleverdon, transmitted on 19th and 20th November 1946 by the BBC Third Programme. 'In Parenthesis' was adapted for the wireless (radio) by Douglas Cleverdon and was scheduled to be broadcast on Armistice Day 1939, but all schedules were cancelled after the outbreak of the Second World War. A shortened version was rehearsed in 1942 but this too was cancelled. In this 1946 broadcast the introduction was written and was pre-recorded by David Jones, and the cast included actors like Richard Burton and Dylan Thomas.The first radio performance of 'In Parenthesis' made a profound effect on many of those listening.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjmkk.2
title: Letter: To Edward Marsh

description: Describes having received a letter from Annie Rosenberg after she has passed on the poem 'Moses' to Edward Marsh / pleasure that Marsh is showing the poem to people / colder weather / problems with feet / Gordon Bottomley's letters and prose.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjmw7.1
title: May Morning

description: Entitled here as 'May Morning at Oxford'. Published in 'Oxford Magazine'. Versions also published in 'St. Monica's School Notes', 1915-1916 on 16 March 1916, 'Verses of a V.A.D.' (1918), and in 'Poems of the War and After' (1934).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjpv5.2
title: In Parenthesis broadcast script, typescript introduction, 1946 (annotated 1964)

description: Annotations made by David Jones in 1964 to a Typescript draft of the introduction to the broadcast script of 'In Parenthesis', written and produced by Douglas Cleverdon, transmitted on 19 November 1946 by the BBC Third Programme. The corrections are in pencil, and the documents are in a particularly bad state of wear. 'In Parenthesis' was adapted for the wireless (radio) by Douglas Cleverdon and was to be broadcast on Armistice Day 1939, but all schedules were cancelled after the outbreak of the Second World War. A shortened version was rehearsed in 1942 but this too was cancelled. In this 1946 broadcast the introduction was written and was pre-recorded by David Jones, and the cast included actors like Richard Burton and Dylan Thomas. The first radio performance of 'In Parenthesis' made a profound effect on many of those listening.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjqbr.2
title: Entertainment in reserve areas.

description: British NCO served with 1/6th Bn London Regt on Western Front, 1915-1916; officer served on training duties and recreational training in GB and France, 1918-1919
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianlxc.2
title: Relations between ranks.

description: British NCO served with 1/6th Bn London Regt on Western Front, 1915-1916; officer served on training duties and recreational training in GB and France, 1918-1919
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianq9j.2
title: Letter: To Edward Marsh

description: Discusses family's reaction to Isaac Rosenberg's report of ill health / the effect of winter on his health / possiblitity of having been reassigned due to complaints about ill health / whether or not Edward Marsh could do something to help him obtain a transfer away from the frontlines / potential to be transferred back to the United Kingdom for home duty to work as a draughtsman / Harriet Monroe's 'Poetry' Magazine in Chicago having published some of his poems.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianr94.1
title: May Morning

description: Entitled here as 'May Morning At Oxford and After'. the poem was published in Verses of a V.A.D.' (1918) and 'Poems of the War and After' (1934). Versions also published in 'St. Monica's School Notes', 1915-1916 on 16 March 1916 and in 'Oxford Magazine' on 5 May 1916.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianrdgy.2
title: Battle of Pozieres Ridge

description: Australian gunners serving a 9.2 inch howitzer. They are stripped to the waist owing to the hot weather.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianreuf.1
title: May Morning

description: Typescript of poem published in 'Poems of the War and After' (1934). Versions also published in 'St. Monica's School Notes', 1915-1916 on 16 March 1916, 'Verses of a V.A.D.' (1918)" and in 'Oxford Magazine' on 5 May 1916.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiant3d.2
title: Receiving news from home.

description: British NCO served with 1/6th Bn London Regt on Western Front, 1915-1916; officer served on training duties and recreational training in GB and France, 1918-1919
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianui1.2
title: The Hydra: June 1918

description: 'Extracts from Diary of 2nd Lieut. Pepys, R. F. A. (T.)' by 'Dear Archie'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianxsj.2
title: In Parenthesis - drafts of notes, maps, inserts and correspondence

description: Manuscript draft concerning 'In Parenthesis'. Appears to contain David Jones' answers to a correspondent's queries about the inspiration behind Part VII of the poem, which Jones suggests was based on the experience of an offensive of December 1915 as well as the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian177.2
title: Effects of gas on skin. Shortage of water; pollution of all natural water.

description: British NCO served as machine gunner with 7th Bn Dorsetshire Regt in GB, 1915-1916; served with 6th Bn Dorsetshire Regt on Western Front, 1917-1918
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian29jd.1
title: Letter: To Siegfried Sassoon

description: Remarks and potential corrections on Siegfried Sassoon's poem 'To Any Dead Officer' / upcoming plans and invitation for Sassoon to visit / that Robert Graves is in possession of a manuscript copy of his 'Fairies and Fusiliers' / Robert Nichols vs. Charles Sorley as poets / jokes about Sassoon standing as a pacifist M. P.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2hsv.2
title: Letter: To Edward Marsh

description: Congratulates Edward Marsh on being appointed Winston Churchill's private secretary again, now at the Ministry of Munitions / hopes that it will not interfere with his literary projects and 'Georgian Poetry', which Isaac Rosenberg has agreed to contribute to / explains that he has asked his sister Annie Rosenberg to withhold the poem 'The Amulet', which he has retitled 'The Unicorn', as he is reworking it / apologises for her persistence in asking Marsh to intercede and obtain a transfer away from the front lines for him / discusses his poem 'The Amazon' and why it is his 'best' poem / wishes to discuss poetry with Marsh face to face.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2ivi.1
title: Letter: To Edward Marsh / Died of Wounds

description: Discusses origins of and potential for publishing his next volume with Heinemann / desires Edward Marsh's opinion of publishing and what it would do to the sales of 'Over the Brazier' / enjoyment of time in Wales / potential for a posting to Egypt / wishes when next in London to meet the poet Walter de la Mare / includes draft of poem 'Died of Wounds'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2l8w.2
title: Letter: To Colin Hughes (November 1969).

description: David Jones thanks Colin Hughes for sending a photograph of the Bois de Mametz / discusses the Battle of the Somme 1916 and the changing hands of the Mametz sector in 1918 / the role of the 38th Welsh Division in August 1918 / Mametz Wood as a 'wasteland' in 1919 but clearly revitalised after the war / memories invoked by the photograph / the relationship between Mametz Wood in the summer of 1916 and 'In Parenthesis', Part VII / discusses maps from Part VII in relation to trenches / explains about trying to use his experiences of war as a framework for the book / describes an advance at Mametz Wood / wonders what the French authorities have done with the wood since the war / remarks on the fact that the landscape looks flatter then he (David Jones) remembers it.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2oc2.2
title: The Hydra: May 1918

description: Continues 'Evolving Edinburgh' by 'A. J. B.'.