cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8hrg.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/bodleian8nq2.2
title: Ratings of the WRNS wire together glass floats as part of their work as mine net workers
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8psl.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (8)

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/bodleian8zjl.2
title: Strafe / Letters

description: Poems 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/bodleiand1kw.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (5)

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/bodleiand34.2
title: Hidden Tales

description: Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. Another draft of the poem can be found in the small green manuscript notebook 64.6. The draft shown here was included in 'War's Embers' (1919). Found in a coverless notebook used by Gurney from late August to mid-September 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand4md.2
title: Fire in the Dusk

description: Manuscript in pencil with corrections in ink and pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. The poem was sent to Marion Scott in a letter of 7 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/bodleiand5un.2
title: The Promisers

description: Probably written in August-October 1917. This is no. 94 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandfjq.2
title: WRNS push a cart full of finished floats along the quayside, probably at Lowestoft
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandjiw.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott

description: 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/bodleiandks2.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Glad that Edward Thomas is well and is coming home soon / a bad day / mistletoe.  Dated 10 December without a year.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandllu.2
title: Possessions ['Sand has the ants...']

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. On a loose-leaf page found in a black hard-cover exercise book inscribed 'I.B. Gurney / 1 Westfield Terrace / Longford / Gloucester'. Written on the reverse of the page showing 'Going Out At Dawn'. The poem exists in numerous drafts. The version shown here was included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004). Another poem with the same title, found in the green manuscript notebook 64.3, begins 'France has victory...'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandpit.2
title: Postcard to wife from Frederick Matson

description: Postcard to wife.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandrxq.2
title: Pay book (1)

description: Pay book
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandv5h.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/bodleiandz9c.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 'The disc of identity'. This is no. 91 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj1xx.2
title: Pay book (1)

description: Pay book
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj35j.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott

description: Envelope containing letter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj5jx.2
title: WRNS assemble a mine in the sunshine, probably at Lowestoft
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjg9n.2
title: With an Identity Disc

description: Rough working. 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 'The disc of identity' and is no. 91 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjlup.2
title: The Promisers

description: Rough working, on verso of a rough draft. Probably written in August-October 1917. This is no. 94 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjriv.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott

description: 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/bodleianjtig.2
title: Birth Certificate for P. W. King

description: Birth Certificate
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjula.2
title: Swift and Slow

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'. Included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004)
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjykv.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (1)

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/bodleianm9p.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (3)

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/bodleiano7p.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/bodleianobo.2
title: WRNS: Mrs Gladys Barnes holds a large pole as she pushes her motor boat away from the shore

description: At Southwick Harbour.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianrec7.2
title: Fragment

description: Manuscript in pencil with corrections in ink and pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. Two unidentified fragments of poetry. Found in a coverless notebook used by Gurney from late August to mid-September 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianw74.2
title: Silk embroidered postcard

description: Silk embroidered postcard
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian23si.2
title: With an Identity Disc

description: A revision of earlier drafts written in France on 23 March 1917. This is no. 91 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian24au.2
title: The End (After the blast of lightning from the east)

description: Work on this probably began in late 1916 in England, and continued in October-November 1917 at Craiglockhart or in November 1917-January 1918 at Scarborough. This is no. 154 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian27bg.2
title: On Rest

description: Manuscript draft, in ink, of part of 'On Rest'. The pencil draft opposite is a draft of an as yet unidentified poem.  Found in a coverless notebook used by Gurney from late August to mid-September 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2abk.2
title: A WRNS officer instructs ratings in the use of anti-gas respirators, Lowestoft 1918
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2dux.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Hopes Marion Scott likes Sevenoaks / enjoying diet in army, but not the orders / French papers discussing a possible Russian offensive / gives Scott leave to deal with Ivor Gurney's publishers, Sidgwick and Jackson / discusses a thunderstorm / wishes for books / visiting Rouen / playing 'auction bridge' / enjoying the French country and people.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2fni.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (1)

description: Describes difficulties in finding time to write / thanks Vera Brittain for her letters / waiting for final orders / aniticipating the crossing / censorship / a code to let Vera know Roland Leighton's whereabouts / asks if Vera has written to his mother yet / thinking of Vera and the future.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2t1s.2
title: Shortage / Paean

description: Poems 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/bodleian2t85.2
title: Two women war workers push a truck load of shells at  Woolwich
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2ufi.2
title: Blank pages

description: Found in a coverless notebook used by Gurney from late August to mid-September 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2zu5.2
title: Miss Hilda Adams. VAD (17)

description: Miss Adams was a VAD on the Western front.  These are some of her photographs of staff and vehicles at various locations.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian62v3.2
title: Strange Meeting

description: Probably written at Scarborough and begins with the line 'Earth's wheels run oiled with blood'. Later incorporated into 'Strange Meeting'. This is no. 131 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian64o3.2
title: Pay book for John Witham (1)

description: Pay Book
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6ahr.2
title: Musical Score

description: Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. Shows an as yet unidentified musical score. Found in a coverless notebook used by Gurney from late August to mid-September 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6bc3.2
title: Two women operate a shell case forming machine at the New Gun Factory at Woolwich
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6en8.2
title: Migrants

description: A fair manuscript copy of this poem in pencil. Another draft exists in the green manuscript notebook 64.6. this draft was transcribed by Gurney in a letter of 27th August 1918 to Marion Scott, and he referred to it as 'Which is one of my best things - to the author's mind, at any rate'. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919). Written while Gurney was a patient at the Middlesex War Hospital. Found in a coverless notebook used by Gurney from late August to mid-September 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6fp1.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott

description: 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/bodleian6q2y.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (6)

description: Describes difficulties in finding time to write / thanks Vera Brittain for her letters / waiting for final orders / aniticipating the crossing / censorship / a code to let Vera know Roland Leighton's whereabouts / asks if Vera has written to his mother yet / thinking of Vera and the future.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6rwn.2
title: Miss Hilda Adams. VAD (19)

description: Miss Adams was a VAD on the Western front.  These are some of her photographs of staff and vehicles at various locations.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6uy8.2
title: As bronze may be much beautified

description: Develops an earlier fragment. This is no. 159 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8425.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (7)

description: Describes difficulties in finding time to write / thanks Vera Brittain for her letters / waiting for final orders / aniticipating the crossing / censorship / a code to let Vera know Roland Leighton's whereabouts / asks if Vera has written to his mother yet / thinking of Vera and the future.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian895d.2
title: Photo of lady with a braille watch

description: Lady is wearing a Braille watch sent to her by John Witham
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8dcd.2
title: The End (When late in my Romance my mind did look)

description: Drafted or revised in October 1917-November 1917 at Craiglockhart or in November 1917-January 1918 at Scarborough. This is no. 119 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragment'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8jwc.2
title: Miss Hilda Adams. VAD (18)

description: Miss Adams was a VAD on the Western front.  These are some of her photographs of staff and vehicles at various locations.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8kpf.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Envelope containing letter, stamped 30th June 1917.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8ly6.2
title: I saw his round mouth's crimson deepen as it fell

description: Probably written at Scarborough. This is no. 122 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8ohk.2
title: [unidentified]

description: A pencil draft of an unidentified poem. Found in a coverless notebook used by Gurney from late August to mid-September 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8q3d.2
title: Indian military engineers in Mesopotamia
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8vp6.2
title: Miss Hilda Adams. VAD (20)

description: Miss Adams was a VAD on the Western front.  These are some of her photographs of staff and vehicles at various locations.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian9a4.2
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 is no. 113 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand3n6.2
title: De Profundis

description: Continuation of manuscript draft in pencil with corrections in pencil and ink. The poem was sent to Marion Scott in a letter of 10th 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/bodleiand51b.2
title: Order of service for memorial tablet unveiling ceremony (1)

description: Order of service titled "Unveiling Ceremony of Memorial Tablet", at the Norman Memorial P.M. Church, including a list of the men of the church who died in the Great War, and one of those who served in the forces. The latter list includes "Dugdall, Wm. Geo." Part of a collection relating to William Dugdall.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand9e2.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Hopes Marion Scott likes Sevenoaks / enjoying diet in army, but not the orders / French papers discussing a possible Russian offensive / gives Scott leave to deal with Ivor Gurney's publishers, Sidgwick and Jackson / discusses a thunderstorm / wishes for books / visiting Rouen / playing 'auction bridge' / enjoying the French country and people.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandd4c.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (5)

description: Describes difficulties in finding time to write / thanks Vera Brittain for her letters / waiting for final orders / aniticipating the crossing / censorship / a code to let Vera know Roland Leighton's whereabouts / asks if Vera has written to his mother yet / thinking of Vera and the future.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandh8c.2
title: 'A path of gold'

description: Fragments of a draft poem. Manuscript in pencil with corrections in ink and pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. Found in a coverless notebook used by Gurney from late August to mid-September 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandjl4.2
title: WRNS enjoy a dance in their recreation room on Osea Island, Summer 1918
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandto6.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (2)

description: Describes difficulties in finding time to write / thanks Vera Brittain for her letters / waiting for final orders / aniticipating the crossing / censorship / a code to let Vera know Roland Leighton's whereabouts / asks if Vera has written to his mother yet / thinking of Vera and the future.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandvrt.2
title: WRNS in their quarters on Osea Island, Essex
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandy6t.2
title: Strange Meeting

description: Probably written at Scarborough and begins with the line 'Earth's wheels run oiled with blood'.  Later incorporated into 'Strange Meeting'. This is no. 131 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianium.2
title: Miss Hilda Adams. VAD (16)

description: Miss Adams was a VAD on the Western front.  These are some of her photographs of staff and vehicles at various locations.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj24n.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (3)

description: Describes difficulties in finding time to write / thanks Vera Brittain for her letters / waiting for final orders / aniticipating the crossing / censorship / a code to let Vera know Roland Leighton's whereabouts / asks if Vera has written to his mother yet / thinking of Vera and the future.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj3rg.2
title: WRNS Officers and ratings.  Devenport 1918
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj4ee.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Hopes Marion Scott likes Sevenoaks / enjoying diet in army, but not the orders / French papers discussing a possible Russian offensive / gives Scott leave to deal with Ivor Gurney's publishers, Sidgwick and Jackson / discusses a thunderstorm / wishes for books / visiting Rouen / playing 'auction bridge' / enjoying the French country and people.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj7o8.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (4)

description: Describes difficulties in finding time to write / thanks Vera Brittain for her letters / waiting for final orders / aniticipating the crossing / censorship / a code to let Vera know Roland Leighton's whereabouts / asks if Vera has written to his mother yet / thinking of Vera and the future.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjd7u.2
title: Photograph of Frederick Booth M.M. and his wife Agnes

description: Frederick Booth M.M.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjl1i.2
title: Order of service for memorial tablet unveiling ceremony (2)

description: Order of service titled "Unveiling Ceremony of Memorial Tablet", at the Norman Memorial P.M. Church, including a list of the men of the church who died in the Great War, and one of those who served in the forces. The latter list includes "Dugdall, Wm. Geo." Part of a collection relating to William Dugdall.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjql3.2
title: Eternal Treasure / The Poplar

description: Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. Two other manuscript drafts of 'Eternal Treasure' exist. One was included in a letter to Marion Scott of 24th August 1917, and all 3 drafts remain consistent. Another manuscript draft of 'The Poplar' can be found in a letter of September 1918 to Marion Scott. Written while Gurney was a patient at the Middlesex War Hospital. Both poems were included in 'War's Embers' (1919). Found in a coverless notebook used by Gurney from late August to mid-September 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjrlu.2
title: A Lewis gun on an anti-aircraft mounting manned by Indian troops in Mesopotamia 1918
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianknb.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (3)

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/bodleianlfb.2
title: De Profundis

description: Manuscript draft in pencil with corrections in Ivor Gurney's hand. The poem was sent to Marion Scott in a letter of 10th September 1918. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919). Written while Gurney was a patient at the Middlesex War Hospital. Found in a coverless notebook used by Gurney from late August to mid-September 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianp17.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott

description: 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/bodleianp8m.2
title: WRAF air mechanics working on the fuselage of an Avro 504
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianp9.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Hopes Marion Scott likes Sevenoaks / enjoying diet in army, but not the orders / French papers discussing a possible Russian offensive / gives Scott leave to deal with Ivor Gurney's publishers, Sidgwick and Jackson / discusses a thunderstorm / wishes for books / visiting Rouen / playing 'auction bridge' / enjoying the French country and people.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianr2um.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

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

description: Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand, with a musical sketch written on the facing page. The poem was sent to Marion Scott in a letter of c.11 September 1918. Gurney also composed a musical setting of a version of this poem, for two voices.  Included in 'War's Embers' (1919). Written while Gurney was a patient at the Middlesex War Hospital. Found in a coverless notebook used by Gurney from late August to mid-September 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianvsb.2
title: With an Identity Disc

description: A revision of earlier drafts written in France on 23 March 1917. This is no. 91 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.