51472: Notebook Containing Drafts of 66 Poems

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A notebook signed and dated from 25 June 1915 to 24th December 1916. 71 folios, 4 folios with notes on the reverse, 1 cover leaf. Hand written in black ink with very few corrections. Few poems with titles but correlate to poems 72 - 143 in The Collected Poems. Blank from f. 72 except as noted above. |

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The manuscript does not have a title and is named here after it's first line. The poem is no. 76 in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Words' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems, Written on the road from Gloucester to Coventry.
This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'The Word' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Under the Wood' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Haymaking' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
Second page of the poem. This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Haymaking' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'A Dream' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'The Brook' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Aspens' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'The Mill-Water' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
This manuscript is untitled but labeled 'For These [Prayer]' in Thomas, 'Edward Thomas Collected Poems' and 'For These' in Longley, 'Edward Thomas: The Annotated Collected Poems'.
This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Digging' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Two Houses' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Cock-Crow' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems

This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'There's Nothing like the Sun' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Liberty' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems. Written 'Going home from Hare Hall.'
The manuscript does not have a title and is named here after its first line. It is no. 93 in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
Written traveling home from Hare Hall
Written 'Coming home from Hare Hall'
The manuscript does not have a title and is named here after its first line. It is no. 99 in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
The manuscript does not have a title and is named here after its first line by Thomas, in 'Edward Thomas Collected Poems' [100] and 'Those things that poets said' by Longley, in 'Edward Thomas: The Annotated Collected Poems'.
The manuscript does not have a title and is named here after its first line. It is no. 101 in Edward Thomas Collected Poems. Written 'Going home on sick leave.'
This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Thaw' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems. Written 'Going home.'
This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Bronwen' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Merfyn' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Myfanwy' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Helen' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
The manuscript does not have a title and is named here after its first line. It is no. 115 in Edward Thomas Collected Poems. Written 'Going home from Hare Hall.'
Typescript. The manuscript is untitled and is named as 'The Wind's Song' in 'Edward Thomas Collected Poems' [110].
This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'When we 2 walked' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Tall Nettles' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'It Rains' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'The Cherry Trees' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
The text contains two lines from John Webster's 'The White Devil' published 1612
This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Some eyes condemn' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'The sun used to shine' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
The manuscript does not have a title and is named here after its first line. It is no.120 in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
This poem reflects Edward Thomas' decision to give up his job as a map reading instructor and to apply for a commission with the possibility of a posting to France. His concern was the financial plight of his family, and he was hoping for a Civil List Pension. He was granted the lump some of £300 in June 1916 instead. The manuscript is untitled but is labeled 'As the team's head-brass' in 'Edward Thomas Collected Poems'.
This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'After you speak' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems. Written 'Going home'.
The poem does not have a title and is named here after its first line. The poem is no. 124 in Edward Thomas: Collected Poems
This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'The Pond' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'It was upon' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Bob's Lane' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
The manuscript does not have a title and is named here after its first line. It is no. 127 in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'The Green Roads in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'The Gallows in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'The Gallows' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
The final stanza probably reflects Edward Thomas' feelings after visiting his parents in London. Soon afterwards his mother had an eye operation. Written at a firing camp in Wiltshire to which Thomas had been moved. The manuscript is untitled and is labeled 'Dark is the forest and deep, and overhead' in Thomas 'Edward Thomas Collected Poems' and 'The Dark Forest by Longley 'Edward Thomas: The Annotated Collected Poems'.
This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'When he should laugh' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems. Written 'Going home to Steep.'
This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'The Swifts' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems. Written in the hospital at Hare Hall.
This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Blenheim Oranges' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems. Written at Handel Street, London, where Thomas was posted at the Royal Artillery School.
The manuscript does not have a title and is named here after its first line. It is no. 135 in Edward Thomas Collected Poems. Written at Handel Street, London, where Thomas was posted at the Royal Artillery School.
Refers to Edward Thomas' last visit to Steep before moving his family to Essex. The manuscript is untitled but is labeled 'What will they do when I am gone? It is entitled 'What will they do when I am gone?' It is plain' in 'Edward Thomas Collected Poems' [136] after it's first line, and 'What will they do?' in Longley, 'Edward Thomas: The Annotated Collected Poems'.
This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'The Trumpet' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
Lies between f.66 and f.67 of MS Don d.28
The manuscript does not have a title and is named by Thomas, 'Edward Thomas: Collected Poems' [138] after its first line ('He rolls in the orchard: He is stained with moss') and as 'The Child in the Orchard' by Longley, 'Edward Thomas: The Annotated Collected Poems'.
The manuscript does not have a title and is named here after its first line. It is no. 140 in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'The Sheiling' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems. Written whilst traveling back from a visit to Gordon Bottomley.
The manuscript does not have a title and is named after its first line by Thomas in 'Edward Thomas Collected Poems' and as 'The Lane' by Longley in 'Edward Thomas: The Collected Annotated Poems'.
The manuscript does not have a title and is named here after its first line. It is no.143 in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
Signed Edward Thomas/Steep/Petersfield/11.15
Possibly not in Thomas' hand.