Guide to the Walter de la Mare Papers M0589
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Correspondence
24 postcards, WDLM to Lady Ottoline Morrell, some 1927-1931; n.d.
14 letters, WDLM to Elizabeth Myers Powys, including 1 autograph poem 1944
Xerox of entry on Elizabeth Myers in 'Catholic Authors' ed. Matthew Hoehn. v. 2. p. 378-379
13 letters, WDLM to Elizabeth Myers Powys 1945
2 letters, WDLM to Littleton Powys 1945
18 letters, WDLM to Elizabeth Myers Powys 1946
3 letters, WDLM to Littleton Powys 1946
3 letters, WDLM to John Black, 1940-1950
2 letters, WDLM to Richard Church, including letter from Church to Hudson 1940
2 letters, WDLM to Laurence 1945
1 letter, WDLM to Conal O'Riordan 1942
5 letters, WDLM to Miss English 1935-1939
2 letters, WDLM to Dr. Hurst
1 letter, WDLM to Christopher Morley (editor and writer at Doubleday, Page and Ladies Home Journal 1890-1957, (1913-17) (1917-18)), 1917
17 letters, WDLM to F.C. Owlett, includes autograph poem 1940-1953
13 letters and postcards, WDLM to Hermann Peschmann 1933-1946
4 letters, WDLM to Frederick B. Eddy 1922-1924
11 letters, WDLM to Mrs. Gerald Bishop, 1919-1925
8 letters, WDLM to Gerald Bishop 1919-1953
1 letter, WDLM to Lescelles Abercrombie 1929
11 letters, WDLM to Catherine Abercrombie 1940-1953
7 letters, WDLM to Mrs. Bromley 1924
2 Christmas cards, signed, WDLM to Edward and Barbara Morison undated
14 letters, WDLM to Barbara Morison 1946-56
3 letters, WDLM to Sir Sidney Roberts 1931-1934
3 letters, WDLM to Mr. Tadler [1910]
Materials relating to Edward Marsh
Materials relating to Leonard Clark (friend and protege of WDLM) 1950s-1960s
3 letters, Mary Winter Were [pseudonym: Mary E.J. Hughes] to Henry Simpson, re: election to Royal Literary Society, including reviews of her poetry 1950
1 letter, Richard Church to John Smith (ed. Poetry Review) undated
Manuscript, signed R. Church, Shakespeare Sonnet Competition
34 letters, WDLM to Revd. J.A. Bouquet, a contemporary of WDLM's at St. Paul's Choir School, with notes by Bouquet's son (1875-1971), 1939-53,
2 letters, WDLM to Mrs. Fletcher 1919, 1926
1 letter, WDLM to 'Dear Madam' re: anthology 1919
1 letter, WDLM to C.K. Ogden (ed. Cambridge Magazine), with transcription 1920[?]
1 letter, WDLM to 'Dear Sir', with transcription. re: setting poem to music 1920
1 letter, WDLM to Mr. Walker, with transcription 1921
1 letter, WDLM to 'Dear Madam' 1921
1 letter, WDLM to J.A. Craig, re: use of portrait photograph 1922
2 letters, WDLM to Mr. Farjeon, re: setting 'The Truant' to music 1923
1 letter, WDLM to Mr. Atkinson, re: reading at club 1923
1 letter, WDLM to Mr. Barrett 1923
1 letter, WDLM to Mr. Brown, re: anthology 1925
1 letter, WDLM to Brereton 1927
1 letter, WDLM to Bayliss, with transcription
1 letter, WDLM to Miss Muster 1927
1 letter, WDLM to James Wells (US publisher) 1928
1 letter, Owen Mase to WDLM, re: broadcast of musical setting of England 1929
1 letter, WDLM to Mr. Telfer 1929
2 letters, WDLM to Franklin Ludington 1930
2 autographed poems, WDLM to J.N. Hart
1 letter, Lord Dunsany to Dorothy Una Ratcliffe, and reply 1935
1 manuscript, 'To my sister April 20th', with cartoons [not in WDLM's hand]
1 letter, WDLM to Mr. Roberts 1945
1 letter, WDLM to Peter Windsor (U.S. poet) 1945
2 letters, WDLM to Graham Greene, re: Greene's approval of WDLM's 'Burning Glass', and WDLM's praise for 'Power and Glory' 1945
1 letter, WDLM to Sheila 1947
7 letters, WDLM to Fred Bason (author and bookseller) 1950-1955
1 letter, WDLM to Rebecca Mixner 1953
1 letter, WDLM to Eleanor Farjeon 1956
1 letter, Richard de la Mare to Ryan [ed. London Times?] 1953
Copy of 1 letter, R.H. Simpson to WDLM 1924
1 letter, Richard de la Mare to Richard Church 1969
Poems & Stories by Walter de la Mare
'The Lady Godiva', published in New Statesman 8 September 1917
'The Blind Boy' 7 March 1914
'Blind!' undated
'Night', with transcription 1913
'In the woods...' with transcription 1917[?]
'Sam's Three Wishes' autograph, inscribed to 'old Jimblepaggles from D[ad?]'
'The Coldharbour Ballad' with autograph interleaf, addressed to Naomi G. Royde-Smith 1911
11 early typed manuscript pages from 'The Listeners' and 'Peacock Pie' 1912-1913
'The Old Men' broadsheet 1913
'Haunted' Linden Broadsheet No. 4. (Two proof copies; one hand tinted). Artwork by Honor Frost 1939
'To Lucy' unbound printer's proof undated
'The Flower' illuminated pamphlet undated
Primary Division School Workbook for English with poems by WDLM undated
'Dame Hickory' with original drawing, unsigned undated
Chorister Publications
Choristers' Journal, (reprint). Journal of St. Paul's Choir School [founded by WDLM] 1889-1890
Choristers' Magazine with explanatory letter December 1976
Musical Scores Adapted from Walter de la Mare's Writings
'Autumn' set to music by Margaret Cotman 1933
'The Horseman' undated
'The Cupboard' undated
'Music' set to music by E. Barfoot 1932
'Silver' set to music by Peter Robson [vicar of Blanchland, Northumberland] 1980
'Silver' set to music by Ivy White undated
'The Song of the Mad Prince' undated
'Silver' set to music by Herman Kaysen March 1935
'Peacock Pie' set to music by Louise Clarke 1929-1930
'The Witch' set to music by G.F. [Lyhen?] undated
'Silver' set to music by Ariel Shearer 1931
'Epitaph' set to music by Rosalie Housman undated
'Echoes' set to music by Rosalie Housman undated
'Nod: The Old Shepherd' set to music by Rosalie Housman 1930
'Old Shellover' and 'Moon Song' set to music by B. Burrow 1924
'Silver' set to music by Eleanor Jean Weld 1936
'Three Songs from Peacock Pie' set to music by Guirne Creith 1931
'The Three Cherry Trees' set to music by Reginald C. Rogers 1932
'The Cupboard' set to music by Winifred E. Houghton undated
'Tired Tim' set to music by Winifred E. Houghton undated
'The Barber's' set to music by LBW undated
'The Song of the Secret' set to music by Dika Jane Newlin undated
'Silver' set to music by Dika Jane Newlin undated
'Silver' set to music by Jessica Cornell undated
'The Song of the Shadows' set to music by 'A.H.' undated
'Music' set to music by Gwen Knight undated
'As I Sat Musing (Peacock Pie)' set to music by G. Bird undated
'Mistletoe' set to music by Dika Jane Newlin undated
'Where?' set to music by Cyril Grafton undated
'Where?' set to music by Frances Hotley undated
'Down Adown Derry' fragment undated
'The Huntsmen (from 'Peacock Pie')' set to music by Louise Ayres Garnett undated
'Nod' set to music by David Thomson 1920
Three Poems from 'Peacock Pie' Set to Music by Walter M. Clement 1920
'The Beautiful Lady' fragment set to music by Liza Lehmann 1912
'Rachel' set to music by B. Burrows undated
'Three songs from Dune-home' set to music by Victor Harris 1922
'The Road of Evening' set to music by Linda Phillips undated
'Bluebells' set to music by W. H. Swinburne 1933
'Invocation' set to music by Reginald Osborne 1968
'Someone came knocking' set to music by Josephine Truax Searle 1923
'A song of enchantment' set to music by Ina Boyle 1922
'Mistletoe' set to music by Bainbridge Crist 1916
'Autumn' set to music by Margaret I. Cotman 1933
'Portraits : A Song Cycle' set to music by David Stanley Smith 1919
'An Epitaph' set to music by Maurice Besly 1922
Three songs set to music by Samuel Liddle 1923
Four songs from 'Peacock Pie' set to music by May H. Brahe 1923
'Dreams' set to music by Temple Bevan undated
'Dubbuldideery : A Monkeys' Journey Song' set to music by Norman Peterkin undated
'She's Me Forgot' set to music by Norman Peterkin undated
'The Galliass' set to music by Norman Peterkin undated
'The Unchanging' set to music by Owen Mase 1926
'Earth Folk' set to music by R.G.H. Greene 1923
'Nod' set to music by Donald Ford 1927
'Silver' set to music by Ruby D.M. Barber 1933
'Someone' set to music by Maurice Besly 1923
'The Three Cherry Trees' set to music by C.A. Speyer 1925
'The Little Bird' set to music by Bainbridge Crist 1916
'Tit for Tat: Five Settings from Boyhood of Poems by Walter de la Mare' by Benjamin Britten. 1969
'Song of the Water Maiden' set to music by Walter Peterkin 1925
'Mistletoe' set to music by Ernest L. Lodge 1926
'Once and There Was A Young Sailor' set to music by Norman Peterkin 1927
'Songs from "Punch" for Children' set to music by Eleanor Farjeon undated
'Nursery Rhymes of London Town' Book 2. Music by Eleanor Farjeon 1921
'Wanderers' set to music by Harry Farjeon 1924
'The Song of Soldiers' set to music by Frederic Austin 1924
'The Song of the Soldiers' set to music by Victor Hely Hutchinson 1933
'Hide and Seek' set to music by Jessie Furze 1925
'Mistletoe' set to music by Jessie Furze 1925
'Shellover' set to music by Jessie Furze 1925
'The Snow' set to music by Robert MacLeod 1923
'The Scarecrow' set to music by Corbett Sumsion 1934
'The Sunken Garden' set to music by Percy Judd 1926
'The Ship of Rio' set to music by Mark Andrews undated
'The Ship of Rio' set to music by Brian Daubney 1958
'Andy Battle' set to music by C. Armstrong Gibbs 1933
'The Quartet' set to music by G.A. Grant-Schaefer undated
'England' set to music by Owen Mase 1928
'Nicholas Nye' set to music by Llifon Hughes-Jones 1962
'Dream Song' set to music by Edwin J. Stringham 1935
'Silver' set to music by Geoffrey Winters in 'Sing It and Ring It' 1966
'Come! Christmas Come!' by Arthur Patterson Webb inscribed to WDLM 1929
Index to 'The Chapbook (A Monthly Miscellany)' published by The Poetry Bookshop (London), numbers 1-12 1919-1920
'The Monthly Chapbook' no. 3, vol. 1 September 1919
'The Monthly Chapbook' no. 6, vol. 1. Includes WDLM's 'Nod' set to music by C. Armstrong Gibbs, 'Melmillo' set to music by Clive Carey, and 'Arabia' set to music by W. Denis Browne December 1919
'The Monthly Chapbook' no. 18. Includes WDLM's 'Full Moon' set to music by Scott Goddard December 1920
Publications with Walter de la Mare's Writing
The Listener (British Broadcasting Corporation)
'The Burnt Letter' March 1950
'Solitude' May 1950
'Beyond' August 1950
'Another Washington' August 1950
'Ulladore' July 1952
'The Chinese Pot' April 1953
'Bad Company' April 1954
'Meeting Thomas Hardy' April 1955
'The Minstrel' April 1956
The Bookman
'Mr. Belloc's Essays' April 1908
Issue with Profile of Lord Morley January 1913
Review of WDLM's 'Peacock Pie' by Edward Thomas September 1913
'Sturge Moore's Poems' June 1914
'The Green Room: A Bookshop Story' September 1925
Review of WDLM's 'On the Edge and Other Stories' by R. L. Megroz October 1930
Broom
'In the Dock' November 1921
Poetry
'Here Lies...' and 'The Dead Jay' February 1939
The Golden Book Magazine
'Desert Islands' October 1930
Nash's Pall Mall Magazine
'Christmas Eve' December 1925
'Strangers and Pilgrims' April 1936
Chardin Exhibit Catalog
'Introduction and Notes' for The Faber Gallery 1948
'Introduction and Notes' for The Pitman Gallery 1950
Newspaper Clippings
Album of Clippings re: assorted drama reviews 1913-1928
Album of Clippings re: assorted drama reviews 1929-1935
Book Review by Herschel Brickell of WDLM's 'Memoirs of a Midget' in "Book of the Month Club News" June 1928
'The Leaden Bells of Modern Poetry' by Lord Dunsany in "The Saturday Review" February 6, 1954
Review by Naomi Lewis of 'The Complete Poems of Walter de la Mare' in "The New York Times Book Review" (pgs. 4, 15) July 5, 1970
Reviews of 'Ding-Dong Bell' by WDLM and 'Epitaphs' by W. H. Beable (in same envelope)
Review of WDLM's 'Books for Children' in "The Literary Review" (pasted in album) November 10, 1923
'Walter de la Mare' and 'An Appreciation of the Lyric Verse of Walter de la Mare' both by W. H. Auden (in same holder)
Crossword puzzle (Clue 1 down is de la Mare's name)
Newspaper photographs of Walter de la Mare and review of 'Ding-Dong Bell' (in same holder)
'The Watching Eye', 'The Ruined Abbey' and 'C. Armstrong Gibbs recalls the first performance of Crossings' in the "Radio Times" (in the same holder) circa 1950
'The Friend of Life: Mr. de la Mare's New Poems' review in the "Times Literary Supplement" November 17, 1945
'Study in Blond: Mrs. Richard de la Mare and Her Children' and 'The Beautiful People in Caftans' with a photograph of Mrs. Richard de la Mare in "VOGUE Magazine" (in the same holder) circa 1966
Review of WDLM's 'Mulla-Mulgars' with illustrations by Dorothy P. Lathrop, invitation to exhibition of Lathrop's drawings in New Haven, and newspaper clipping Lathrop drawing (in same holder)
Walter de la Mare obituaries and tributes from "The New York Herald Tribune", "The Illustrated London News", "The London Times", "The New York Times", and other publications June 1956
Friends & Collaborators of Walter de la Mare
Naomi Royde-Smith
Album of Clippings : reviews of books by Naomi Royde-Smith 1925-1927
'Verdict for Mary: A Play in Three Parts' typescript by Naomi Royde-Smith undated
'David: A Comedy in Three Acts' typescript by Naomi Royde-Smith undated
Entry for Naomy Gwaldys Royde-Smith in "Twentieth Century Authors" (Kunitz & Haycraft) 1942
Photograph Portrait from the Naomi Royde-Smith Collection undated
Ernest Milton
'Return from Abroad: A Play in Three Acts' typescript by Ernest Milton undated
Rupert Brooke
Xerox of program from Rugby School Chapel of the 'Unveiling of the Portrait Medallion of Rupert Brooke' March 1919
Xerox of program from Rugby School of the Rupert Brooke Memorial March 1919
Walter de la Mare Ephemera
Photographs of Walter de la Mare taken by 'The Times'
Photograph of Walter de la Mare taken by Mark Gerson
Drawing of de la Mare by Nicolas Bentley
The English Association Presidential Address "Walter de la Mare" by Lord David Cecil July 1973
'Some Thoughts on Reading' address by WDLM at Bembridge School (No. 192 of 350) July 6, 1923
'Crossings' performance by Wakefield Girls' High School undated
'Centenary Recitals' musical settings of WDLM's poetry presented by the Schubert Society of Great Britain 1973
Cover for 'The Three Mulla-Mulgars'
Flyer for 'Come Hither'
Ad for books by WDLM from Argus Book Shop
Horn Book Calendar with quotations from WDLM 1951
'WDLM and a List of His Poetry as Issued by Constable and Co., Ltd.' pamphlet
Program from the Burial of Walter de la Mare at St. Paul's Cathedral June 28, 1956
Slides & Photographs of WDLM memorial plaque in St. Faith Chapel at St. Paul's Cathedral Crypt September 1973
Certified copy of WDLM's entry of birth
Certified copy of WDLM's entry of death
Profiles & Writings about WDLM
"Walter de la Mare's Poetry" by Wen Yuan-ning 'T'ien Hsia Monthly' April 1936
"The Personality of Walter de la Mare" by V. Sackville-West in 'The Listener' April 30, 1953
Special Issue of 'The Journal of the National Book League' on Walter de la Mare April-May 1956
"Writer's and Their Work : No. 36 - Walter de la Mare" by Kenneth Hopkins 1957
"Walter de la Mare, Poet and Writer of Huguenot Extraction" by Luce Bonnerot in 'Proceedings of the the Huguenot Society of London' (Vol. 20, No. 4) 1963
"Walter de la Mare: A Tribute" by Leonard Clark and Edmund Blunden 1974
"Walter de la Mare: An Exhibition of Books, Letters, Manuscripts" Rare Book Department, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania March 3 - April 5, 1969
Xerox of "Walter de la Mare's Stories for Children" by Jane E. Gardner in 'The Private Library' (Third series, vol. 1:3. p. 100-118) Autumn 1978
Xerox of entry on WDLM written by Kirk H. Beetz from 'Critical Survey of Poetry' edited by Frank Magill (p. 773-781) 1982
Dorothy Hatch Collecting of Walter de la Mare Materials
"Much Hadham Hall. Sold by direction of Richard de la Mare, Esq." Sotheby's auction catalogue September 30 and October 1, 1980.
"A Local Habitation and a Name" by Dorothy Hatch in 'The Imprint of the Stanford Libraries Associates' October 1979
Bibliography of books about WDLM, along with announcement of annotated bibliography of 20th century literature undated
Bertram Rota 'Modern First Editions' Catalogue No. 115 Spring 1959
Xerox of Sotheby's auction catalog of WDLM autograph letters and literary manuscripts [includes letter from Sotheby's to Mrs. M. Cohn] 1966-1972
Ad for WDLM autograph letter, inserted in a book by Rupert Brooke. undated
Letter and Invoice to Dorothy Hatch from Ian MacDonald re: purchase of WDLM materials May 1976
Invoice to Dorothy Hatch from John Wilson re: Lady Ottoline Morrell postcards to WDLM 1984
Postcard of Walter de la Mare to Dorothy Hatch. October 1989
Letters from R. L. Megroz to The Poetry Society re: readings 1936-1941
Xerox of 'Ricardus Librorum Faber' piece on Richard de la Mare by Berthold Wolpe in "The Book Collector" (pgs. 345-348) September 1986
Audio of nine epitaphs from WDLM's 'Ding-Dong Bell' taped from KUSC 1986
Festival of Poetry, Souvenir Programme 1963
Flyer for exhibit entitled "Hofstra - The History of a University" 1979
Flyer for "The Thirties in England" bibliography from New York Public Library 1979.
Paper bookmark. "Dancing Hours" Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University