cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6dhs.2
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/bodleian6dp8.2
title: The Hydra: 26th May 1917

description: Concludes review of recent concerts by 'Peas Blossom' / includes an untitled and unsigned poem.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6ljr.2
title: The Hydra: 26th May 1917

description: Concludes short story entitled 'Caveman and Trenchman' by E. R. Grieveson / poem entitled 'A Collier's Thowts' by 'Tyke' / review of recent concerts by 'Peas Blossom'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6lt7.1
title: Letter: To Gordon Bottomley / The Tower of Skulls / Returning, we hear the larks / The Burning Temple / The Dying Soldier

description: Written on reverse of Church Army paper. Mentions still being in hospital but will likely be transferred to the trenches shortly / apologises for 'dreariness' of letter, but explains that the circumstances and experience of war makes it more difficult to write / discusses Gordon Bottomley' suggestions for alterations to 'The Unicorn' / has not incorporated changes to 'The Unicorn' as yet / is including instead various drafts, including a pencil draft of 'The Tower of Sculls' and typescripts of 'Returning, we hear the larks', 'The Burning of the Temple' and 'The Dying Soldier'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6nrw.1
title: Letter: To Edward Marsh

description: Discusses an urgent letter sent previously on behalf of a friend / thanks Edward Marsh for letter with criticisms / describes conditions under and the process by which he constructs poems / having been moved back from the frontline trenches, but still within range of shells. The poem which Rosenberg writes that he includes (missing) is likely to be 'Break of Day in the Trenches'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6sb7.2
title: Notes for a Short Course of Scouting

description: Notebook on various duties and operations related to D Coy, 3rd Battalion of the Royal Sussex. Notes in Edmund Blunden's hand. He used this book when he was teaching a course for the regiment in 1918. The book contains descriptions of actual patrols and includes related maps. Some of these are dated. This page contains a map related to a patrol near Grandcourt in red and black ink.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6swe.2
title: War Diary: Monday March 15th.

description: Describes receiving news that Roland Leighton will be shortly sent to France / crossing of letters between London, Oxford and Buxton / attempts to set up a meeting to say goodbye / Vera Brittain's announcement to her parents that she will go to London to meet him.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6tuy.2
title: The Hydra: June 1918 Advertising Supplement

description: Advertisement for Edinburgh purveyor of regimental ashtrays.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6zhi.2
title: The Dying Knight and the Fauns

description: The comments at the bottom of the page are not in Graves' hand and are likely to be in that of his school teacher.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian82im.2
title: The Hydra: 4th August 1917

description: Photograph of Craiglockhart War Hospital / 'The Hydra' Table of Contents.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian85t3.1
title: Dead Man's Dump
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8eln.1
title: Letter: To Unknown.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8gb3.2
title: Notes for a Short Course of Scouting

description: Notebook on various duties and operations related to D Coy, 3rd Battalion of the Royal Sussex. Notes in Edmund Blunden's hand. He used this book when he was teaching a course for the regiment in 1918. The book contains descriptions of actual patrols and includes related maps. Some of these are dated. This page shows notes for a 1918 lecture by Blunden on patrols, particularly near Cuinchy and Grandcourt.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8gw2.2
title: War Diary: Monday March 15th.

description: Describes receiving news that Roland Leighton will be shortly sent to France / crossing of letters between London, Oxford and Buxton / attempts to set up a meeting to say goodbye / Vera Brittain's announcement to her parents that she will go to London to meet him.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8ihb.2
title: Star Talk
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8mw4.2
title: The Hydra: 29th September 1917

description: Contains photograph of and advertisement for an Edinburgh photographer.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8pu5.2
title: The Hydra: June 1918 Advertising Supplement

description: Advertisements for Edinburgh purveyors of jewelry and photographic equipment.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianboj.2
title: Willaree
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand1bi.1
title: Letter: To Edward Marsh

description: Thanks Edward Marsh for his consolations following the death of Isaac Rosenberg / asks if he would like copies of all of Isaac's poems / requests help in obtaining leave for brother David Rosenberg serving in France due to mother's failing health.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand8g1.2
title: Star Talk
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiande9l.2
title: Notes for a Short Course of Scouting

description: Notebook on various duties and operations related to D Coy, 3rd Battalion of the Royal Sussex. Notes in Edmund Blunden's hand. He used this book when he was teaching a course for the regiment in 1918. The book contains descriptions of actual patrols and includes related maps. Some of these are dated. This page contains notes on a patrol near Potijze.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandhmq.2
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/bodleiandhwc.2
title: The Hydra: 26th May 1917

description: Advertisements for Edinburgh purveyors of musical instruments and hair balm.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandnmm.2
title: Star Talk
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandskz.2
title: Notes for a Short Course of Scouting

description: Notebook on various duties and operations related to D Coy, 3rd Battalion of the Royal Sussex. Notes in Edmund Blunden's hand. He used this book when he was teaching a course for the regiment in 1918. The book contains descriptions of actual patrols and includes related maps. Some of these are dated. This page shows an unidentified map in red and black ink, possibly of the line near Grandcourt.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandwh7.2
title: War Diary: Sunday June 27th.

description: Describes starting at Devonshire Hospital / jobs there / meeting and talking to the patients / Vera Brittain's interest in war stories.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandwp6.2
title: The Hydra: 26th May 1917

description: Advertisement for Edinburgh tailors.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj89o.2
title: Notes for a Short Course of Scouting

description: Notebook on various duties and operations related to D Coy, 3rd Battalion of the Royal Sussex. Notes in Edmund Blunden's hand. He used this book when he was teaching a course for the regiment in 1918. The book contains descriptions of actual patrols and includes related maps. Some of these are dated. This image shows the back cover of the notebook.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjeud.2
title: The Hydra: 29th September 1917

description: Advertisement for Edinburgh purveyors of sporting equipment.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjjg6.2
title: Star Talk

description: The date is more likely to be the 10th August 1914 and has been edited to the American date format in the top right hand corner.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjkha.2
title: Notes for a Short Course of Scouting

description: Notebook on various duties and operations related to D Coy, 3rd Battalion of the Royal Sussex. Notes in Edmund Blunden's hand. He used this book when he was teaching a course for the regiment in 1918. The book contains descriptions of actual patrols and includes related maps. Some of these are dated. This page contains a small drawing of a map in red and black ink showing the area around the 'Jerusalem crater', possibly related to Blunden's experiences of patrols at Richebourg.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjkmx.2
title: War Diary: Monday March 15th.

description: Describes receiving news that Roland Leighton will be shortly sent to France / crossing of letters between London, Oxford and Buxton / attempts to set up a meeting to say goodbye / Vera Brittain's announcement to her parents that she will go to London to meet him.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjkwn.2
title: The Hydra: June 1918 Advertising Supplement

description: Illustrated cover of 'The Hydra' for June 1918 showing a 'Hydra' attacking a soldier, flanked by two nurses.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjnk4.2
title: Notes for a Short Course of Scouting

description: Notebook on various duties and operations related to D Coy, 3rd Battalion of the Royal Sussex. Notes in Edmund Blunden's hand. He used this book when he was teaching a course for the regiment in 1918. The book contains descriptions of actual patrols and includes related maps. Some of these are dated. This page contains notes on a patrol near Potijze.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjvm5.2
title: Star Talk

description: The date is more likely to be the 10th August 1914 and has been edited to the American date format in the top right hand corner.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjyb9.1
title: Letter: To Edward Marsh

description: Describes having fallen and cut his hands / convalescing in hospital / sketching and painting fellow 'invalids' / explains 'fib' about having enlisted only for home duty when in reality he has enlisted for full duty / has left poems and a short play with a friend to forward on to the poet Lascelles Abercrombie or to Marsh / prefers poetry to painting / asks for a box of chocolates.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiankdo.2
title: War Diary: Tuesday March 2nd.

description: Describes Logic class / letter from mother discussing fears of both Mr. and Mrs. Brittain about Edward Brittain's imminent departure for France / Vera Brittain's expectation of his death and Roland Leighton's survival / her performance in a lacrosse match / difficulties with work.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianm1b.2
title: The Hydra: 26th May 1917

description: Advertisement for Edinburgh purveyors of sporting equipment.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianm35.1
title: Letter: To Edward Marsh

description: Asks Marsh to help to influence Isaac Rosenberg's colonel to obtain leave for him due to illness / possibility of a medical board declaring Isaac unfit for service.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian257.2
title: The Hydra: 4th August 1917

description: Editorial requesting submissions and detailing anecdote involving the editors of 'The Hydra' / 'Notes and News' reporting on the field club.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian265s.2
title: The Hydra: 4th August 1917

description: Contains advertisement for Edingburgh purveyors of cigarettes / 'Advertisers' Plan'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2b61.2
title: Notebook (Dec 1916 - Jan 1917)

description: Notebook belonging to Edmund Blunden containing notes on 11th Royal Sussex's duties upon arrival to the Ypres sector. Details field and trench works to be carried out by the battalion, as well as instructions, communications, sketch maps and patrol reports. This page shows a list of battalion needs and activites for the adjutant.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2ba5.2
title: War Diary: Tuesday May 18th.

description: Describes a letter from Roland Leighton describing billets and his position / possibility that he will be sent to Ypres / his anger over riots following the sinking of the 'Lusitania' / Vera Brittain's progress at university / a letter sent from her to Roland Leighton containing Rupert Brooke's '1914 Sonnets'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2bcz.2
title: The Hydra: June 1918 Advertising Supplement

description: Advertisements for Edinburgh purveyors of oatcakes and glasses.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2c6e.2
title: The Hydra: 4th August 1917

description: Concludes short story entitled 'Elise'.  Continues from previous issues with Chapter XIV of 'Chronicles of a V. O. S. (Very Old Subaltern)' by 'Jack Point'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2fxx.2
title: The Hydra: June 1918 Advertising Supplement

description: Contains 'The Hydra' Table of Contents.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2jio.2
title: Cherry-Time
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2ok1.1
title: Letter: To Edward Marsh

description: Describes having sent on a copy of his book of poems / possibility of some of it being lost / letters of praise from Robert Trevelyan and Gordon Bottomly / having gone straight up to the trenches upon arrival at the front / will describe trenches later / sketch of Isaac Rosenberg in a dugout / asks Edward Marsh to write when he has the time despite being busy.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2pod.2
title: Star Talk
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6coi.2
title: The Hydra: 4th August 1917

description: Contains advertisement for Edinburgh purveyors of sporting goods.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6hqb.2
title: Another View of Aveluy

description: Manuscript in ink on brown paper in Edmund Blunden's hand. Signed 'E. B.' On the reverse side of the page Blunden offers an explanation for the experience that inspired the poem.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6iet.2
title: Notebook (Dec 1916 - Jan 1917)

description: Notebook belonging to Edmund Blunden containing notes on 11th Royal Sussex's duties upon arrival to the Ypres sector. Details field and trench works to be carried out by the battalion, as well as instructions, communications, sketch maps and patrol reports. This image shows the interior cover.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6ik3.2
title: War Diary: May 1st.

description: Describes receiving two telegrams, one detailing Victor Richardson's blindness / possibility of Vera Brittain returning home to care for him / the death of Geoffrey Thurlow / imagining his death / quotes from Rupert Brooke's 'Safety' and 'IV. The Dead'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6it1.2
title: The Hydra: June 1918 Advertising Supplement

description: Advertisement for Edinburgh purveyor of sporting equipment.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6knu.2
title: The Face of the Heavens

description: Graves' note in his library copy of "Over the Brazier" states:"Written in Annezin in October 1915 by a glass of Curacoa [sic], a fortnight after Loos" The poem is, however, in Part I (1910 - 1914) of "Over the Brazier" rather than Part II (1915) and is included within this collection at Buffalo in a group of manuscripts dated 1912.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6quc.1
title: Letter: To Edward Marsh

description: Discusses improvements to 'The Amazon' / intention to forward on ideas for 'The Unicorn' / Lascelles Abercrombie's current work as a shell inspector.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6w5c.2
title: Notebook (Dec 1916 - Jan 1917)

description: Notebook belonging to Edmund Blunden containing notes on 11th Royal Sussex's duties upon arrival to the Ypres sector. Details field and trench works to be carried out by the battalion, as well as instructions, communications, sketch maps and patrol reports. This page shows a list of individuals to whom Blunden will or has sent letters.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian849e.1
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/bodleian86qs.2
title: Notebook (Dec 1916 - Jan 1917)

description: Notebook belonging to Edmund Blunden containing notes on 11th Royal Sussex's duties upon arrival to the Ypres sector. Details field and trench works to be carried out by the battalion, as well as instructions, communications, sketch maps and patrol reports. This page contains notes for a lecture on common field works.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian86vc.2
title: War Diary: Tuesday May 18th.

description: Describes a letter from Roland Leighton describing billets and his position / possibility that he will be sent to Ypres / his anger over riots following the sinking of the 'Lusitania' / Vera Brittain's progress at university / a letter sent from her to Roland Leighton containing Rupert Brooke's '1914 Sonnets'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian87ob.2
title: The Hydra: 4th August 1917

description: Advertisements for Edinburgh purveyors of shortbread and glasses.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8hn4.2
title: Jolly Yellow Moon
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8il.2
title: In the Wilderness

description: Graves note in his library copy of 'Over the Brazier' (1920) states 'Wrexham 1914 suggested curiously enough by the 3rd Bn R.W.F [Third Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers] regimental Goat.' 

In 'Goodbye to All That' he commented: 'The last thing that is discarded by Protestants when they reject religion all together is a vision of Christ as the perfect man. That persisted with me, sentimentally, for years.' Although he described it as  'a silly quaint' poem', 'In the Wilderness' stayed in the canon, and in 'Collected Poems' (1975) it is still the opening poem. (Graves, B. and Ward, D. 'The Complete Poems: Volume 1'. 1995).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8sh8.1
title: Letter: To Edward Marsh

description: Describes dislike of drilling and the army / imagines that Edward Marsh is very busy / will send poems and a new verse play to the poet Lascelles Abercrombie if Marsh does not have time to read them / has asked to pain Abercrombie / possibility of being shifted to Shoreham.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8w4t.2
title: In Spite

description: Entitle as 'Free Verse' in 'Over the Brazier' and 'Fairies and Fusiliers', when republished in 'The Collected Poems' 1914-1926 and 1927 the poem was retitled 'In Spite'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8xev.2
title: Notebook (Dec 1916 - Jan 1917)

description: Notebook belonging to Edmund Blunden containing notes on 11th Royal Sussex's duties upon arrival to the Ypres sector. Details field and trench works to be carried out by the battalion, as well as instructions, communications, sketch maps and patrol reports.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8xtf.2
title: The Hydra: June 1918 Advertising Supplement

description: Advertisement for Edinburgh hair specialists / 'Advertisers' Map'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8xyd.2
title: War Diary: Monday March 22nd.

description: Describes gifts sent by Roland Leighton upon his departure to France / Vera Brittain's letter to him / her resolve to carry on with work / housemaid's concerns for her lover in France / casualties at Neuve Chapelle and St. Eloi.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand5vx.2
title: Notebook (Dec 1916 - Jan 1917)

description: Notebook belonging to Edmund Blunden containing notes on 11th Royal Sussex's duties upon arrival to the Ypres sector. Details field and trench works to be carried out by the battalion, as well as instructions, communications, sketch maps and patrol reports. This page carries on with notes for a lecture on common field works.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand8ex.1
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/bodleianddy7.2
title: The Hydra: June 1918 Advertising Supplement

description: Advertisements for Edinburgh restaurant and purveyors of sporting equipment.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandes4.2
title: War Diary: Monday March 22nd.

description: Describes gifts sent by Roland Leighton upon his departure to France / Vera Brittain's letter to him / her resolve to carry on with work / housemaid's concerns for her lover in France / casualties at Neuve Chapelle and St. Eloi.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandf71.2
title: The Hydra: 4th August 1917

description: Advertisements for Edinburgh purveyors of boots and photographic equipment.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandivf.2
title: The Hydra: 4th August 1917

description: 'Notes and News' concluding discussion of the Field Club / reporting on Camera Club / the results of the cricket.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandm2o.2
title: In Spite / Sorley's Weather

description: Entitle as 'Free Verse' in 'Over the Brazier' and 'Fairies and Fusiliers', when republished in 'The Collected Poems' 1914-1926 and 1927 the poem was retitled 'In Spite'.

The bottom of the page contains a draft of 'Sorley's Weather' dated February 1917, Suzanne, Somme, France. Written below Typescript version of 'In Spite'. Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895 - 1915) was killed in the battle of Loos on 13 October 1915.  Graves refers to him in Goodbye to All That' as 'one of the three poets of importance killed during the war'. (The other two were Isaac Rosenberg and Wilfred Owen).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiands9t.2
title: War Diary: Saturday March 20th.

description: Describes reactions to casualty lists at Neuve Chapelle / the departure of the 6th Sherwood Foresters / concern for Roland Leighton / her resolve to carry on her intellectual pursuits / reaction to having passed an examination.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandt82.2
title: The Hydra: June 1918 Advertising Supplement

description: Advertisements for Edinburgh purveyors of leather goods, footwear and stationary.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandtps.1
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 / possibility 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/bodleianj2ys.2
title: The Hydra: June 1918 Advertising Supplement

description: Advertisement for Edinburgh luncheon and tea rooms.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj576.2
title: The Hydra: 29th September 1917

description: Advertisement for Edinburgh purveryor of sporting equipment.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj78e.2
title: The Hydra: June 1918 Advertising Supplement

description: Advertisement for and photograph of Edinburgh photographers' establishement.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj7pb.1
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/bodleianj8su.2
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/bodleianj92k.2
title: In the Wilderness

description: Graves note in his library copy of 'Over the Brazier' (1920) states 'Wrexham 1914 suggested curiously enough by the 3rd Bn R.W.F [Third Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers] regimental Goat.' 

In 'Goodbye to All That' he commented: 'The last thing that is discarded by Protestants when they reject religion all together is a vision of Christ as the perfect man. That persisted with me, sentimentally, for years.' Although he described it as  'a silly quaint' poem', 'In the Wilderness' stayed in the canon, and in 'Collected Poems' (1975) it is still the opening poem. (Graves, B. and Ward, D. 'The Complete Poems: Volume 1'. 1995).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjjem.1
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/bodleianjlvm.2
title: Notebook (Dec 1916 - Jan 1917)

description: Notebook belonging to Edmund Blunden containing notes on 11th Royal Sussex's duties upon arrival to the Ypres sector. Details field and trench works to be carried out by the battalion, as well as instructions, communications, sketch maps and patrol reports. This page details work completed for the week ending 24/12/1916.