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DOI: 10.5287/bodleiando2m.2
title: Tobacco

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Numerous versions of the poem exist, and a shorter version from the green manuscript exercise book 64.3 was published in 'The London Mercury' in 1924. The draft shown here was included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004). From a pink mottled hard-cover exercise book. The inside front cover is inscribed 'Music to Miss C. Rogers...Poetry to Professor Saintsbury / Bath'. The inside back cover is inscribed 'Instead of a home / I require death'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandrl8.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Describes her eleven birthday presents / play at lacrosse / sending a piece of cake to Edward Thomas and a sugar robin for remembrance while he is away / love from the family.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandtdr.2
title: Letters / Strafe

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 'Letters' and 'Strafe' were written East of Laventie.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandw9n.2
title: The York and Lancaster Regiment During the First World War

description: Men on the 62nd Division front, illustrating normal trench routine on a quiet front.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandwg1.2
title: The Fire Kindled / To the Poet Before Battle

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  'The Fire Kindled', with numerous changes in ink made in the poets hand, was written at Merville and 'To the Poet Before Battle' was written at Chelmsford.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandzfi.2
title: Kitchener's Army Training at Clevedon

description: Newsreel with titles records the Kings Own on the march, the Lancashire Regiment parading through Clevedon (Somerset), the South Lancashire Regiment bridge building, the Kings Own practising physical exercises and a bayonet charge, firing at the butts and an inspection of the East Lancashire Regiment by Brigadier General Lewis.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianhws.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Describes her eleven birthday presents / play at lacrosse / sending a piece of cake to Edward Thomas and a sugar robin for remembrance while he is away / love from the family.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj1aw.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Describes her eleven birthday presents / play at lacrosse / sending a piece of cake to Edward Thomas and a sugar robin for remembrance while he is away / love from the family.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianja25.2
title: Tobacco

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Numerous versions of the poem exist, and a shorter version from the green manuscript exercise book 64.3 was published in 'The London Mercury' in 1924. The draft shown here was included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004). From a pink mottled hard-cover exercise book. The inside front cover is inscribed 'Music to Miss C. Rogers...Poetry to Professor Saintsbury / Bath'. The inside back cover is inscribed 'Instead of a home / I require death'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjegk.2
title: Cyril Tourneur

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. From a pink mottled hard-cover exercise book. The inside front cover is inscribed 'Music to Miss C. Rogers...Poetry to Professor Saintsbury / Bath'. The inside back cover is inscribed 'Instead of a home / I require death'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjk3c.2
title: Afterwards / Carol

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 'Afterwards', and 'Carol', with numerous corrections in ink and lines crossed out, were both written at Chelmsford.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjsmu.2
title: Of Trees Over There

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. From a pink mottled hard-cover exercise book. The inside front cover is inscribed 'Music to Miss C. Rogers...Poetry to Professor Saintsbury / Bath'. The inside back cover is inscribed 'Instead of a home / I require death'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjurk.2
title: Anthem for Doomed Youth

description: This is no. 96 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiank9g.2
title: The Signaller's Vision / The Mother

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. 'The Signaller's Vision' was written in the 'Trenches E. of Laventie and 'The Mother' was written East of Laventie.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianmd5.2
title: The Battle of the Somme 1 July-18 November 1916

description: Gap in barbed wire entanglements in front of reserve trenches, caused by the explosion of a large shell.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiannau.2
title: Canadian Pioneers

description: Making a road towards Pozieres Cemetery.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianrezg.2
title: Golden Hair

description: This is no. 125 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianv45.2
title: Topical Budget 219-2, Includes Trinidadian Troops

description: 'TRINIDAD TO THE TRENCHES: Men from Trinidad who have answered the Empire's Call, march to the Mansion House and receive the City's welcome from the Lord Mayor'. The troops are formally inspected by officers in greatcoats, before marching (with band) through the streets of London. All the soldiers are white. (The Mayor's reception itself is not shown.) II. 'HELP FOR SERBIA: British and French troops landing at the base. The difficulty in disembarking the horses is vividly shown'. Shots of French troops marching past; horses and empty carts are shown passing along a country road while British soldiers stand around idly (one of them is asleep). At the quayside, a horse is lowered from a ship in a harness; the horse is in obvious distress and struggles wildly to escape. III. 'GUNS FROM CHAMPAGNE: Parisians go to see the howitzers, Taubes and many machine guns, taken from the enemy during the last battle in Champagne'. A large assembly of weapons, including artillery, machine guns and even aeroplanes, is laid out in a courtyard, where a sizeable number of people wander round inspecting them.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianzlj.2
title: The Fates

description: Written on 30 June-1 July 1917. This draft is dated 2 June 1917, most likely in error. Another draft of the poem, also mistakenly dated 2 June 1917, is included in a 1 July 1917 letter to Leslie Guston. This is no. 83 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian22bo.2
title: The Next War

description: Written at Craiglockhart in late September 1917, and revised at Scarborough in July 1918. This is no. 160 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian259j.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (2)

description: Describes reading Vera Brittain's letters by candlelight and responding to them / the state of the trenches and dugouts / location of the platoon / a bullet passing Roland Leighton's head as he shaved / potential for remaining in the sector / forgetting about danger and the potential for death / graves in the wood / wonders how much he should share with Vera / mending barbed wire on detail / idealism and the war / anticipates a future together with Vera.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian26qe.2
title: Half Dead

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. At least 3 versions of this poem exist, ending at different points. Line 8's 'cloths of heaven' refers to a W.B. Yeats' poem containing the line' Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths...'. From a pink mottled hard-cover exercise book. The inside front cover is inscribed 'Music to Miss C. Rogers...Poetry to Professor Saintsbury / Bath'. The inside back cover is inscribed 'Instead of a home / I require death'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian27l4.2
title: I know the music

description: This is no. 92 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2bvp.2
title: Song ['Only the wanderer'] / Ballad of the Three Spectres

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 'Song' ['Only the wanderer'] was written at Caulaincourt, and the 'Ballad of the Three Spectres' was written at the 'Somme'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2c51.2
title: Laventie

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Various versions of the poem exist, including a manuscript draft in the green manuscript exercise book 64.3, are longer. The version show here ends at line 44. From a pink mottled hard-cover exercise book. The inside front cover is inscribed 'Music to Miss C. Rogers...Poetry to Professor Saintsbury / Bath'. The inside back cover is inscribed 'Instead of a home / I require death'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2fo1.2
title: Canadian Troops

description: Fixing bayonets before a raid on enemy lines.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2q2.2
title: Tobacco

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Numerous versions of the poem exist, and a shorter version from the green manuscript exercise book 64.3 was published in 'The London Mercury' in 1924. The draft shown here was included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004). From a pink mottled hard-cover exercise book. The inside front cover is inscribed 'Music to Miss C. Rogers...Poetry to Professor Saintsbury / Bath'. The inside back cover is inscribed 'Instead of a home / I require death'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2szz.2
title: Typed copy of a diary (10)

description: Typed copy of a diary
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2u8m.2
title: Winter Song

description: This is no. 98 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2zot.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Asks how Edward Thomas likes the army / describes the weather and a dance / relates examination marks / sends luck alongside a drawing of a cat.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian61ah.2
title: Influences / After-Glow

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 'Influences' was written East of Laventie, and 'Afterglow', with numerous alterations in pen to lines and stanzas, was written at Varennes.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6415.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Inquires after Edward Thomas' health / describes a symphony at school / visit from Helen and Myfanwy Thomas to school / asks what Edward Thomas would like for Christmas.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian653d.2
title: But I was looking at the permanent stars

description: This is no. 93 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian67l7.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (1)

description: Describes reading Vera Brittain's letters by candlelight and responding to them / the state of the trenches and dugouts / location of the platoon / a bullet passing Roland Leighton's head as he shaved / potential for remaining in the sector / forgetting about danger and the potential for death / graves in the wood / wonders how much he should share with Vera / mending barbed wire on detail / idealism and the war / anticipates a future together with Vera.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6bx1.2
title: Typed copy of a diary (8)

description: Typed copy of a diary
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6c4n.2
title: Near Vermand ['A park there...']

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. This draft was included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004). Another version of the poem after a missing typescript was published in Edmund Blunden's and Leonard Clark's editions of Gurney's poems in 1964 and 1973 respectively. From a pink mottled hard-cover exercise book. The inside front cover is inscribed 'Music to Miss C. Rogers...Poetry to Professor Saintsbury / Bath'. The inside back cover is inscribed 'Instead of a home / I require death'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6isf.2
title: Dates of publication / Dedication

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. The dedication is to Margaret Hunt.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6tkw.2
title: German Offensive

description: Loading a 60-pounder.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian75f.2
title: Towards Lillers

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Other much-corrected drafts of the poem exist, and part of the poem can be found in the typescript of 'Aeroplanes Over Aubers'. This version was included in the Leonard Clark edition of Gurney's poems in 1973, and in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004). From a pink mottled hard-cover exercise book. The inside front cover is inscribed 'Music to Miss C. Rogers...Poetry to Professor Saintsbury / Bath'. The inside back cover is inscribed 'Instead of a home / I require death'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian857s.2
title: Laventie

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Various versions of the poem exist, including a manuscript draft in the green manuscript exercise book 64.3, are longer. The version show here ends at line 44. From a pink mottled hard-cover exercise book. The inside front cover is inscribed 'Music to Miss C. Rogers...Poetry to Professor Saintsbury / Bath'. The inside back cover is inscribed 'Instead of a home / I require death'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian891m.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Inquires after Edward Thomas' health / describes a symphony at school / visit from Helen and Myfanwy Thomas to school / asks what Edward Thomas would like for Christmas.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8f3j.2
title: I know the music

description: This is no. 92 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8j7o.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Asks how Edward Thomas likes the army / describes the weather and a dance / relates examination marks / sends luck alongside a drawing of a cat.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8py8.2
title: The Battle of Arras 9 April-15 May 1917

description: A 9.2-inch Howitzer of 91st Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery in position under camouflage netting in readiness for the opening barrage of the Battle of Arras, 1 April 1917.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8qxf.2
title: Typed copy of a diary (7)

description: Typed copy of a diary
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8ray.2
title: Communion / Time and the Soldier

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. 'Time and the Soldier', with various notations and an added stanza, includes Gurney's note that it contains a possible reference to 'TLS' [Times Literary Supplement?]. Both poems were written at Crucifix Corner [on the Somme].
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8tl3.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (9)

description: Describes sitting in a dug-out / a German sniper / recent activities of British artillery / the experience of shelling / the set-up of his dugout / the shelling later on / the danger of stray bullets / the dangers of getting in and out of the trenches / having a bullet come past close to his head / officers' duties / the mud / amusing names for the various trenches / much love to Vera.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8xsa.2
title: West Country / Firelight

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 'West Country' was written East of Laventie, and 'Firelight', a stanza of which he has crossed out and recomposed, was written 'of Varennes'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand2kl.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (3)

description: Describes reading Vera Brittain's letters by candlelight and responding to them / the state of the trenches and dugouts / location of the platoon / a bullet passing Roland Leighton's head as he shaved / potential for remaining in the sector / forgetting about danger and the potential for death / graves in the wood / wonders how much he should share with Vera / mending barbed wire on detail / idealism and the war / anticipates a future together with Vera.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand4rv.2
title: Song of Songs

description: This is no. 86 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand7ez.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (5)

description: Describes reading Vera Brittain's letters by candlelight and responding to them / the state of the trenches and dugouts / location of the platoon / a bullet passing Roland Leighton's head as he shaved / potential for remaining in the sector / forgetting about danger and the potential for death / graves in the wood / wonders how much he should share with Vera / mending barbed wire on detail / idealism and the war / anticipates a future together with Vera.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand7t2.2
title: Typed copy of a diary (4)

description: Typed copy of a diary
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandaz8.2
title: Hail and Farewell / Praise

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 'Hail and Farewell' and 'Praise' were both written East of Laventie.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandbl.2
title: The Next War

description: Written at Craiglockhart in late September 1917, and revised at Scarborough in July 1918. This is no. 160 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandd2x.2
title: Gas Mask Drill for Artillery Horses

description: Mont St. Eloi and the battered towers of the abbey in the background.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianddk3.2
title: Scots / To an Unknown Lady

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 'Scots' was written at Crucifix Corner [on the Somme], and 'To an Unknown Lady', with Gurney's corrections in pen, was written 'near Somme'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandjd7.2
title: Typed copy of a diary (5)

description: Typed copy of a diary
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandk3u.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (6)

description: Describes sitting in a dug-out / a German sniper / recent activities of British artillery / the experience of shelling / the set-up of his dugout / the shelling later on / the danger of stray bullets / the dangers of getting in and out of the trenches / having a bullet come past close to his head / officers' duties / the mud / amusing names for the various trenches / much love to Vera.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandpu1.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Describes her eleven birthday presents / play at lacrosse / sending a piece of cake to Edward Thomas and a sugar robin for remembrance while he is away / love from the family.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandqjx.2
title: Mist on Meadows

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. This draft shows only the first section of the poem, which was included in Edmund Blunden's 1954 edition of Gurney's poems, and of which no original survives. From a pink mottled hard-cover exercise book. The inside front cover is inscribed 'Music to Miss C. Rogers...Poetry to Professor Saintsbury / Bath'. The inside back cover is inscribed 'Instead of a home / I require death'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandsns.2
title: Women in the First World War

description: Medicine: The interior of a ward on a British ambulance train showing the narrow aisle and triple bunks with nurses, patients and orderlies, near Doullens.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianf9h.2
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain (8)

description: Describes sitting in a dug-out / a German sniper / recent activities of British artillery / the experience of shelling / the set-up of his dugout / the shelling later on / the danger of stray bullets / the dangers of getting in and out of the trenches / having a bullet come past close to his head / officers' duties / the mud / amusing names for the various trenches / much love to Vera.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiangzp.2
title: Typed copy of a diary (9)

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

description: Asks how Edward Thomas likes the army / describes the weather and a dance / relates examination marks / sends luck alongside a drawing of a cat.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj22m.2
title: Women in the First World War

description: Women's Auxiliary Army Corps: WAACs and convalescent soldiers playing basketball in the camp at Etaples.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj2k7.2
title: Song and Pain / Purple and Black

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 'Purple and Black' was written East of Laventie.