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DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand793.2
title: I Saw French Once

description: Typescript prepared by Marion Scott. Published in 'The London Mercury' in 1933. Included in the Edmund Blunden edition of Ivor Gurney's poems published in 1954 as well as the version published by Leonard Clark in 1973. Included in the Appendix to P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand81s.2
title: Letter: To Helen Thomas.

description: Discusses idea of spending one night in London with parents and shopping prior to visit home during leave / possibly visiting with editors / firing practice / state of his hut / gifts for children.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandgjb.2
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/bodleiandhlg.2
title: Thiepval Memorial

description: The Thiepval Memorial commemorates almost 73,000 soldiers who died on the Somme battlefields between July 1915 and 20th March 1918 who have no known grave.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandiui.2
title: England the Mother

description: Manuscript in pen in an Marion Scott's hand. Ivor Gurney had a great deal of trouble with the poem and discussed it in numerous letters throughout 1917. Included in 'Severn and Somme' (1917).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandmu8.2
title: Maisemore

description: Manuscript in pen in an Marion Scott's hand. After a draft included in a letter of 8th November 1918. Included in 'Severn and Somme' (1917).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandnee.2
title: Letter: To Helen Thomas.

description: Discusses potential for leave or immediate deployment / upcoming examination / performance at firing / Bronwen's health / desire to come home on Sunday with a friend / Helen Thomas' eggs.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandwr3.2
title: Thiepval Memorial

description: The Thiepval Memorial commemorates almost 73,000 soldiers who died on the Somme battlefields between July 1915 and 20th March 1918 who have no known grave.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandyy5.2
title: Overhead trolley for bringing wounded through the trenches.

description: View from inside trench.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianf72.2
title: Women Ambulance Drivers

description: Two British women ambulance drivers who were decorated with the French and Belgian Croix de Guerre.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiangai.2
title: War Books

description: Typescript prepared by Marion Scott. 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). Manuscript drafts found in the notebook 'GA 45457' entitled 'Best Poems'. A version was included in the Edmund Blunden edition of Ivor Gurney's poems published in 1954.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj6sq.2
title: O Tan-Faced Prairie Boy

description: Typescript prepared by Marion Scott with pencil notations in an unknown hand. The title is after a poem by the American poet Walt Whitman. The 'Michael' of line 6 is a reference to the Archangel who barred Adam and Eve from Paradise. Included in the Edmund Blunden edition of Ivor Gurney's poems published in 1954 as well as the Appendix to P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj7wc.2
title: Letter: To Helen Thomas.

description: Discusses idea of spending one night in London with parents and shopping prior to visit home during leave / possibly visiting with editors / firing practice / state of his hut / gifts for children.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj9mw.2
title: Maisemore

description: Manuscript in pen in an Marion Scott's hand. After a draft included in a letter of 8th November 1918. Included in 'Severn and Somme' (1917).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjc97.2
title: Possessions ['Sand has the ants...']

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, including another from a preceding notebook that begins 'France has Victory...'. A version of the poem shown here, including altered stanza breaks, was first published in 'The London Mercury' in August 1934, and was included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianje55.2
title: S.I.W.

description: The image shows the poem's title. This is no. 155 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjj1b.2
title: Letter: To Helen Thomas.

description: Envelope containing letter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjklq.2
title: Thiepval Memorial

description: The Thiepval Memorial commemorates almost 73,000 soldiers who died on the Somme battlefields between July 1915 and 20th March 1918 who have no known grave.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjoyy.2
title: Interior of an ambulance coach

description: Showing nurses and casualties.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjsji.2
title: Spring Offensive

description: This is no. 177 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjzu9.2
title: England the Mother

description: Manuscript in pen in an Marion Scott's hand. Ivor Gurney had a great deal of trouble with the poem and discussed it in numerous letters throughout 1917. Included in 'Severn and Somme' (1917).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiankel.2
title: Remains of a German Machine Gunners Post
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianrdwl.2
title: Letters

description: Manuscript in pen in an Marion Scott's hand. A pencil draft of the poem is in the red notebook 52.7, and Ivor Gurney copied a second draft in a group headed 'Rondels' in a letter of 11th June 1917 to Scott. Included in 'Severn and Somme' (1917).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianrq1.2
title: Exposure

description: Begun in Scarborough in December 1917, revised there in early 1918 and completed in September 1918 in France. This page from a final draft is dated 'Feb. 1916', but Owen may have meant to write '1918' or '1917'. This is no. 174 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian22r8.2
title: Letter: To H.N. Howells.

description: Written while Ivor Gurney was at Lord Derby's War Hospital, Warrington, a centre for the treatment of shell shock. Discusses a concert / the setting of W.W. Gibson's poetry to music / 'neuralgia' / the Carnegie Quartet / possibly setting an Edward Thomas poem to music / feeling better but unlikely to be let go for a bit / a letter from a mutual friend describing a visit to H.N. Howells / includes the poem 'The Fisherman of Newnham', which was later included in 'War's Embers' (1919) and dedicated to Gurney's father, and asks for Howells' opinion of it / wonders how best to send money to his father / wishes for a letter and news from Gloucester.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian295r.2
title: Contrasts

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. Ivor Gurney and Scott collaborated over the poem in numerous letters. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2b5m.2
title: The grave of Captain Richardson, Point 110 New Military Cemetery

description: Point 110 New Military Cemetery lies just behind what was the front line and contains the graves of David Thomas, M.S. Richardson and David Pritchard. These three men were friends of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves. They were killed on the same night, the 18th/19th March 1916. This series of deaths affected Sassoon and Graves deeply, their grief dealt with at length later in their writing.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2ezy.2
title: Letter: To H. N. Howells.

description: Envelope included with letter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2g74.2
title: Letter: To Helen Thomas.

description: Describes potential to be posted without leave / cancellation of Christmas leave / uncertainty over who will be sent where / useful Christmas gifts.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2lfh.2
title: Strange Meeting

description: This is no. 148 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2s1j.2
title: British Soldier Ploughing

description: British soldier ploughing with two horses.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2vpy.2
title: Ulysses

description: Manuscript in pen in an Marion Scott's hand. After a manuscript included in a letter of 31st October 1917 to Scott. From the series 'Hospital Pictures'. Written while Ivor Gurney was at the Bangour War Hospital. Included in 'War's Embers'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian5fy.2
title: A Terre (being the philosophy of many soldiers)

description: Begun in December 1917 and revised in July 1918 at Scarborough, as 'Wild with all regrets'. Expanded into 'A Terre' at Ripon in April 1918. This is no. 168 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian66ug.2
title: Smile, Smile, Smile

description: This is no. 176 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6b2b.2
title: The German Offensive on the Lys (Operation Georgette) 9-29 April 1918

description: Battle of the Lys. French Cavalrymen passing through Hesdin.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6c13.2
title: A Terre (being the philosophy of many soldiers)

description: Begun in December 1917 and revised in July 1918 at Scarborough, as 'Wild with all regrets'. Expanded into 'A Terre' at Ripon in April 1918. This is no. 168 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6d7q.2
title: Contrasts

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. Ivor Gurney and Scott collaborated over the poem in numerous letters. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6ikd.2
title: The grave of D. Pritchard, Point 110 New Military Cemetery

description: Point 110 New Military Cemetery lies just behind what was the front line and contains the graves of David Thomas, M.S. Richardson and David Pritchard. These three men were friends of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves. They were killed on the same night, the 18th/19th March 1916. This series of deaths affected Sassoon and Graves deeply, their grief dealt with at length later in their writing.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6k5d.2
title: Letter: To Helen Thomas.

description: Describes an afternoon off after observing firing by battery in the rain / roommate's leave and the potential for a quiet night's sleep / potential postings and possibly taking charge of a shoot.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6l1p.2
title: To His Love

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. After a manuscript draft found in a letter of 20th January 1918 to Scott. Written while Ivor Gurney was on a signalling course at Seaton Delaval, Northumberland. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6yvw.2
title: Serenade

description: Typescript prepared by Marion Scott. The title refers to Schubert's song 'Standchen' and the reference in line 8 is to 'Heldenleben', a tone-poem by Richard Strauss. Included in a set entitled 'Memoires of Honour'. 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). Included in the Leonard Clark edition of Ivor Gurney's poems of 1973 as well as P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian81gz.2
title: The First World War 1914-1918: The Western Front

description: A front-line trench showing the sentry and sleeping soldiers at Ovillers-la-Boisselle on the Somme. In this photograph one man crouches on the fire-step while his comrades rest but with weapons at the ready. 'A' Company, 11th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian82ut.2
title: Futility

description: This is no. 153 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian851n.2
title: Companion - North-East Dugout

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. Part of the 'Hospital Pictures' series. A draft can be found in the black manuscript notebook 52.1 with minor various. Transcribed by Ivor Gurney and sent in an envelope dated 17th November 1917 to Scott. Written while Gurney was on a signalling course at Seaton Delaval, Northumberland.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian86ve.2
title: Wing Corner

description: The site of the Front Line on July 1st 1916 (the German front line was to the right of the crossroads and the Allies to the left). Major Kent and his men charged the enemy trenches from here and were mown down. The telegraph pole to the right marks the site of the German strong point that caused so many casualties during British attacks on July 1st, it was finally destroyed by the 1st Welsh Fusiliers late that evening. The photograph is taken from the point of the Sunken Road which led up the hill to the Bois Francais area.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian87kd.2
title: A Terre (being the philosophy of many soldiers)

description: Begun in December 1917 and revised in July 1918 at Scarborough, as 'Wild with all regrets'. Expanded into 'A Terre' at Ripon in April 1918. This is no. 168 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8h5j.2
title: Letter: To Helen Thomas.

description: Describes firing practice and proximity to guns / surrounding countryside and its wildlife / possibility of embarkation leave and it being possibly shortened / New Year's dinner.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8jw.2
title: Letter: To Helen Thomas.

description: Describes boredom and a day spent testing compass / a code to evade the censor's in order to be able to communication location once deployed / possibility of being sent to Le Havre as there is talk of a large upcoming battle / friends and colleagues passing through Lydd.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8q2s.2
title: Chateau de Beaurepaire

description: The Chateau de Beaurepaire which was occupied by the Commander in Chief from March 1916 to April 1919.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8wjo.2
title: Letter: To Helen Thomas.

description: Describes boredom and a day spent testing compass / a code to evade the censor's in order to be able to communication location once deployed / possibility of being sent to Le Havre as there is talk of a large upcoming battle / friends and colleagues passing through Lydd.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8xkj.2
title: The graves of David Thomas, M.S. Richardson and David Pritchard

description: Point 110 New Military Cemetery lies just behind what was the front line and contains the graves of David Thomas, M.S. Richardson and David Pritchard. These three men were friends of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves. They were killed on the same night, the 18th/19th March 1916. This series of deaths affected Sassoon and Graves deeply, their grief dealt with at length later in their writing. Their graves can be found at Point 110 New Military Cemetery, Fricourt, France.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand1ju.2
title: Contrasts

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. Ivor Gurney and Scott collaborated over the poem in numerous letters. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand2if.2
title: Rations

description: Piling up rations in the Ration Shed.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand7ox.2
title: H.M. The King's visit to France and Belgium

description: The King of the Belgians lunching from a railway truck used as a table.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandepz.2
title: Poppy
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandfp4.2
title: Conscious

description: Probaby written at Scarborough, but possibly at Ripon. This is no. 142 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandliv.2
title: Letter: To Helen Thomas.

description: Describes firing practice and proximity to guns / surrounding countryside and its wildlife / possibility of embarkation leave and it being possibly shortened / New Year's dinner.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandr6.2
title: Letter: To H.N. Howells.

description: Written while Ivor Gurney was at Lord Derby's War Hospital, Warrington, a centre for the treatment of shell shock. Discusses a concert / the setting of W.W. Gibson's poetry to music / 'neuralgia' / the Carnegie Quartet / possibly setting an Edward Thomas poem to music / feeling better but unlikely to be let go for a bit / a letter from a mutual friend describing a visit to H.N. Howells / includes the poem 'The Fisherman of Newnham', which was later included in 'War's Embers' (1919) and dedicated to Gurney's father, and asks for Howells' opinion of it / wonders how best to send money to his father / wishes for a letter and news from Gloucester.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandsuv.2
title: Poppies in field
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandu6n.2
title: The Battle

description: Typescript prepared by Marion Scott. Included in a set entitled 'Memoires of Honour'. 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). Included in the Leonard Clark edition of Ivor Gurney's poems of 1973 as well as P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandvtp.2
title: A Terre (being the philosophy of many soldiers)

description: Begun in December 1917 and revised in July 1918 at Scarborough, as 'Wild with all regrets'. Expanded into 'A Terre' at Ripon in April 1918. This is no. 168 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandw7g.2
title: Contrasts

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. Ivor Gurney and Scott collaborated over the poem in numerous letters. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandxzi.2
title: Letter: To H.N. Howells.

description: Written while Ivor Gurney was at Lord Derby's War Hospital, Warrington, a centre for the treatment of shell shock. Discusses a concert / the setting of W.W. Gibson's poetry to music / 'neuralgia' / the Carnegie Quartet / possibly setting an Edward Thomas poem to music / feeling better but unlikely to be let go for a bit / a letter from a mutual friend describing a visit to H.N. Howells / includes the poem 'The Fisherman of Newnham', which was later included in 'War's Embers' (1919) and dedicated to Gurney's father, and asks for Howells' opinion of it / wonders how best to send money to his father / wishes for a letter and news from Gloucester.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiang1h.2
title: Outside the Ecole Militaire

description: The Central Office of British G.H.Q. 31 March 1916 - April 1919.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj5pu.2
title: Smile, Smile, Smile

description: This is no. 176 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj6i1.2
title: General Scenes on the Western Front During the First World War: The Battle of the Aisne

description: A sea of mud in the devastated Aisne area. The foreground is dominated by mud and large puddles (water-filled shell craters). In the background, destroyed trees are just visible on the skyline.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj8p4.2
title: Iron Harvest

description: By the Ulster Tower and Theipval Wood.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjcom.2
title: Ypres in Ruins

description: Panoramic view of the city.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjiz9.2
title: Letter: To H.N. Howells.

description: Envelope originally enclosing letter at 3-28.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjnut.2
title: Poppy
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjuit.2
title: Letter: To Helen Thomas.

description: Describes firing practice and proximity to guns / surrounding countryside and its wildlife / possibility of embarkation leave and it being possibly shortened / New Year's dinner.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjx6p.2
title: The Bohemians

description: Typescript with blue ink corrections in an unknown hand. Prepared by Marion Scott. Included in a set entitled 'Memoires of Honour'. 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). Included in the Edmund Blunden edition of Ivor Gurney's poems of 1954 as well as P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianm5k.2
title: Recompense

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. Gurney dated the transcript to October 1917 when he was spending time at the Bangour War Hospital. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiannp5.2
title: Contrasts

description: Typescript prepared by Marion Scott. Ivor Gurney and Scott collaborated over the poem in numerous letters. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianq5x.2
title: Point 110 New Military Cemetery

description: Point 110 New Military Cemetery lies just behind what was the front line and contains the graves of David Thomas, M.S. Richardson and David Pritchard. These three men were friends of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves. They were killed on the same night, the 18th/19th March 1916. This series of deaths affected Sassoon and Graves deeply, their grief dealt with at length later in their writing.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianr8zh.2
title: Letter: To H.N. Howells.

description: Written while Ivor Gurney was at Lord Derby's War Hospital, Warrington, a centre for the treatment of shell shock. Discusses a concert / the setting of W.W. Gibson's poetry to music / 'neuralgia' / the Carnegie Quartet / possibly setting an Edward Thomas poem to music / feeling better but unlikely to be let go for a bit / a letter from a mutual friend describing a visit to H.N. Howells / includes the poem 'The Fisherman of Newnham', which was later included in 'War's Embers' (1919) and dedicated to Gurney's father, and asks for Howells' opinion of it / wonders how best to send money to his father / wishes for a letter and news from Gloucester.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianrdjk.2
title: Letter: To Helen Thomas.

description: Describes boredom and a day spent testing compass / a code to evade the censor's in order to be able to communication location once deployed / possibility of being sent to Le Havre as there is talk of a large upcoming battle / friends and colleagues passing through Lydd.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiansc5.2
title: Letter: To H.N. Howells.

description: Discusses current mood / praises H.N. Howells' self-discipline and talent at music / thanks Howells for 'generous' letter / discusses depression following the death of a friend ('F.W.H.') / describes his friend's gifts and predictions as to what he might have become had he lived / unable to work / talks about living in times where 'good' battles 'evil' / the responsibilities of artists / death / praises the courage of his battalion / reliance on comradeship in war / the pride, courage and courtesy of French civilians. [F.W. Harvey, it was to be discovered shortly afterwards, had not been killed but had been captured on 17 August, seeing out the remainder of the war in prison camps.]
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianz7z.2
title: Letter: To Helen Thomas.

description: Describes potential to be posted without leave / cancellation of Christmas leave / uncertainty over who will be sent where / useful Christmas gifts.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian27vj.2
title: Letter: To Helen Thomas.

description: Request to send supplies as the battery is likely to be sent to France shortly / possible walking visits / probability of not seeing one another at present / best wishes to Helen Thomas and the children.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian28wz.2
title: The Battle of the Somme 1 July-18 November 1916

description: Worcestershires in the trenches. Sentry looking out through a loop-hole.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2emv.2
title: The Battle of the Somme 31 July-18 November 1916

description: Black Watch at bayonet practice during a rest period.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2fbj.2
title: The Miner

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. From the 'Hospital Pictures' series. A draft version exists in the black manuscript notebook 52.1. Ivor Gurney included a copy of the poem in letters of 24th November 1917 and 3rd January 1918 to Scott. The miner has been identified as Pte T Evans, discussed in a letter of 26th December 1917 to Scott. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).