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Patric Dickinson has not received his due. A self-styled 'poet and impresario of poetry', Dickinson occupied a central position in the cultural landscape of post-war Britain. As an editor and broadcaster he worked with poets such as Dylan Thomas, Cecil Day Lewis and Roy Campbell, actresses Flora Robson, Peggy Ashcroft and Jill Balcon, and actors Robert Donat, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud. See his 1965 autobiography 'The Good Minute' and John Mole's obituary in the Independent, 31 January 1994. From the papers of Dickinson's mistress Sarah Emmeline Hamilton. (His extraordinary correspondence with her, including 171 original and mostly-unpublished poems, 474 autograph letters and 349 post cards, is offered separately). The present item is 4to, and consists of 18 unpaginated pages over twelve leaves. Stitched into green wraps printed in black. Title-page with dragon device in red, otherwise in black. Tastefully printed. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn. Dickinson has added the surname 'Clark' in pencil beside the name 'Jane' of the dedicatee. Not overly common: apart from the deposit libraries the only copies on JISC at Leeds and UCL.

Patric Dickinson has not received his due. A self-styled 'poet and impresario of poetry', Dickinson occupied a central position in the cultural landscape of post-war Britain. As an editor and broadcaster he worked with poets such as Dylan Thomas, Cecil Day Lewis and Roy Campbell, actresses Flora Robson, Peggy Ashcroft and Jill Balcon, and actors Robert Donat, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud. See John Mole's obituary in the Independent, 31 January 1994. From the papers of Dickinson's mistress Sarah Emmeline Hamilton. (His extraordinary correspondence with her, including 171 original and mostly-unpublished poems, 474 autograph letters and 349 post cards, is offered separately). The present item is 2pp, 8vo. With the first page on the recto of the first leaf and the second page on the verso of the second leaf. The first page reads: 'PATRIC DICKINSON / 26th December, 1914 - 28th January, 1994 / MUSIC / David Maundrell / READING / John Field / VALEDICTORY / David Maundrell / MUSIC / February 4th, 1994 Charing, Kent'. Possibly a proof, since Sarah Hamilton has written in ink 'Mozart? (Wye choir 3)' and 'for "Geat[en?]" by? / opera by P. D.' The second page carries Dickinson's last poem: '80th' by 'P. D. / 24th January, 1994'.

Zustand: UNSPECIFIED. Patric Dickinson has not received his due. A self-styled 'poet and impresario of poetry', Dickinson occupied a central position in the cultural landscape of post-war Britain. As an editor and broadcaster he worked with poets such as Dylan Thomas, Cecil Day Lewis and Roy Campbell, actresses Flora Robson, Peggy Ashcroft and Jill Balcon, and actors Robert Donat, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud. See John Mole's obituary in the Independent, 31 January 1994. From the papers of Dickinson's mistress Sarah Emmeline Hamilton. (His extraordinary correspondence with her, including 171 original and mostly-unpublished poems, 474 autograph letters and 349 post cards, is offered separately). The autobiography is 238 + [1] pp, 8vo. In customary yellow Gollancz dustwrapper, printed in black and red. The book is in fair condition, lightly aged, in aged and worn dustwrapper. Three loosely inserted items. ONE: Part of wraparound band with endorsements: ' "Beautifully written" - Nigel Balchin "One of my bedside books" - Henry Cotton "A very living book" - Christopher Fry "I've had a glorious birthday reading it" - Sir Ralph Richardson "A great delight" - Dame Flora Robson "A bloody good book" - Rex Warner "I loved it" - C. V. Wedgwood "So good" - Leonard Woolf'. TWO: Newspaper cutting of Sunday Times review, 20 June 1965. THREE: Printed keepsake poem on blue card: 'The Unseen Kings' ('They tracked the travelling star / Till it stilled above one place.'). Inscribed in PD's autograph at foot of poem: 'All our Love / S & P.' Dated on reverse by PD's mistress Sarah Hamilton 16 December 1991.

Patric Dickinson has not received his due. A self-styled 'poet and impresario of poetry', Dickinson occupied a central position in the cultural landscape of post-war Britain. As an editor and broadcaster he worked with poets such as Dylan Thomas, Cecil Day Lewis and Roy Campbell, actresses Flora Robson, Peggy Ashcroft and Jill Balcon, and actors Robert Donat, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud. See John Mole's obituary in the Independent, 31 January 1994. From the papers of Dickinson's mistress Sarah Emmeline Hamilton. (His extraordinary correspondence with her, including 171 original and mostly-unpublished poems, 474 autograph letters and 349 post cards, is offered separately). The present item is a very nice production. [11] + 38 + [1] pp., small 8vo. In brown cloth with white paper label on front board with title 'ave atque vale' printed in red. Title-page in red and black, the rest in black. Inscribed on front free endpaper: 'for dear Sarah / from Sheila - / 17. 7. '98'. A moving three-page 'Foreword' by 'S. D.' begins: 'Sitting on either side of a large open fire in our drawing room on January 26th, 1995, Patric read me the last poem he ever wrote and told me he had plenty more in his head. Four days later he died. He had just had his 79th birthday.' Foreword ends with reproduction of PD's rebus of his address 38 Church Square, Rye. (The PD correspondence contains a letter from Shannon to Hamilton asking for assistance in the compilation of this volume.) Loosely inserted is a plain white Autograph Card Signed from Shannon to Hamilton. Dated 17 July 1998 and from 38 Church Square Rye, Sussex. 'Darling Sarah. / Here is the promised book of Patric's poems with my love & I know with Patric's love, too. I hope he would have liked the book & the choice of poems. Dear John Bell who has printed the books on his hand press, brought me down my copies yesterday - I am very happy with the book & think he's done it beautifully. / Have you still got any copies of the lovely cover you made for [PD's 1965 Autobiography] The Good Minute? Im trying to collect copies so that every grand child can have one - & I so hate Gollancz's cover (& so did P. ) - and sometimes 2nd hand copies have no cover at all.' She ends with a little family news.

Patric Dickinson has not received his due. A self-styled 'poet and impresario of poetry', Dickinson occupied a central position in the cultural landscape of post-war Britain. As an editor and broadcaster he worked with poets such as Dylan Thomas, Cecil Day Lewis and Roy Campbell, actresses Flora Robson, Peggy Ashcroft and Jill Balcon, and actors Robert Donat, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud. See his 1965 autobiography 'The Good Minute' and John Mole's obituary in the Independent, 31 January 1994. From the papers of Dickinson's mistress Sarah Emmeline Hamilton. (His extraordinary correspondence with her, including 171 original and mostly-unpublished poems, 474 autograph letters and 349 post cards, is offered separately). The present item is 47pp, 8vo. In dustwrapper printed in purple designed by Enid Marx. In fair condition, aged and a little discoloured, in worn and aged dustwrapper. Inscribed in pencil on front free endpaper 'S E H / P D'. Four of the poems have pencil annotation. Accompanying the item is an plain white card without address or stamp, covered with writing by PD on both sides. Dated 'Tues / 19th' from '38 Ch[urch] Sq[uare] Rye.' and signed 'P., with private code in Greek characters.' He begins by discussing Kipling's use of the word 'dwine' and then says: 'I wonder if you remember Bob Thornton, my S. M @ the Royal Court - so long ago? Well, you wont remember, but how I do; how, between 'houses', he brought into my dressing -room a sweet girl (I cant remember even if she was blond or brunette) & said 'We're going to be married' Then & there I wrote an Epithalamion for them, on the back of some maniac's letter AND 20 years later they're still married - (Oh Joy!) & have 3 children d. s. d. approx 17 - 15 - 12 & he has just rung up & wants to give her The Good Minute as a surprise anniversary present!' They are going to visit him at Rye and he invites her to come too. He states that she will find the poem in This Cold Universe (it is there on p.30).

John Stanton Ward was a noted portrait painter, who resigned his membership of the Royal Academy in protest at the 'Sensation' show of 1997. See his obituaries in the Telegraph, Times, Guardian and Indpendent. Patric Dickinson has not received his due. A self-styled 'poet and impresario of poetry', Dickinson occupied a central position in the cultural landscape of post-war Britain. As an editor and broadcaster he worked with poets such as Dylan Thomas, Cecil Day Lewis and Roy Campbell, actresses Flora Robson, Peggy Ashcroft and Jill Balcon, and actors Robert Donat, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud. See John Mole's obituary in the Independent, 31 January 1994. This item is from the papers of Dickinson's mistress Sarah Emmeline Hamilton. (His extraordinary correspondence with her, including 171 original and mostly-unpublished poems, 474 autograph letters and 349 post cards, is offered separately). The present item is nicely printed in landscape 8vo. Thirty unpaginated pages, including twelve pages in six colour double-page spreads. In flecked grey cloth with black and gilt stamp on cover in imitation of a leather label. The book is in good condition, lightly aged, in worn and torn coloured illustrated dustwrapper. Copy No 31 of 750, signed by 'Patric Dickinson' and 'John Ward'. An excellent collaboration, with the work presented in the nature of a notebook (Ward has written out the poems for reproduction: there is no letterpress). The artist engages creatively with the poet: sometimes the illustration surrounds the text, sometimes it submerges it. Some of the illustrations have a hallucinatory quality, with a multi-layered view of reality. Loosely inserted is a 17 x 23.5 cm black and white print of a drawing by Ward, a preparatory study of the portrait of Dickinson that is now in Rye Art Gallery. An uncommon item: apart from the British Library and Cambridge, the only copy thrown up by JISC at the University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury.

Patric Dickinson has not received his due. A self-styled 'poet and impresario of poetry', Dickinson occupied a central position in the cultural landscape of post-war Britain. As an editor and broadcaster he worked with poets such as Dylan Thomas, Cecil Day Lewis and Roy Campbell, actresses Flora Robson, Peggy Ashcroft and Jill Balcon, and actors Robert Donat, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud. See John Mole's obituary in the Independent, 31 January 1994. From the papers of Dickinson's mistress Sarah Emmeline Hamilton. (His extraordinary correspondence with her, including 171 original and mostly-unpublished poems, 474 autograph letters and 349 post cards, is offered separately). The present item is a mockup by 'Sarah Hamilton & Partners' for the dustwrapper of PD's 1965 autobiography 'The Good Minute'. The proposed design is printed in black and grey halftones, with the title printed over the top in red. In fair condition, aged, worn and speckled with rust spots. A somewhat avant-garde design, with the whole page covered by a collage of images, including a photo of PD, a grand clock with figures, hands reaching out of the margins, a large painting of Japanese-style foliage. On the reverse PD writes: 'So much love my darling / Here's a little new poem for you. / Forgiveness / Forgive me. I do know / For what in particular / But I know this. / There's always room for it, & Times / One must need to know & know / Like aout snow or the evening star / What forgiveness is. / There's nothing personal (I expect it's them pills) It just welled up. / O how I long to be with you. I hope I may have rung you before you get this. / All my love & specially now / I do so love you / P / Ive got some more of these covers if you'd like them'. As it happens Gollancz stuck with their usual sort of yellow dustwrapper printed in black when printing PD's book. See Image.

Zustand: UNSPECIFIED. Sarah Shannon (married name Sarah Dickinson) was a fine poet in her own right (see the blurb quoted in Item One below), and it is unfortunate that she allowed herself to be eclipsed by her husband the self-styled 'poet and impresario of poetry', Patric Dickinson. He occupied a central position in the cultural landscape of post-war Britain. As an editor and broadcaster he worked with poets such as Dylan Thomas, Cecil Day Lewis and Roy Campbell, actresses Flora Robson, Peggy Ashcroft and Jill Balcon, and actors Robert Donat, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud. See John Mole's obituary in the Independent, 31 January 1994. These five items come from the papers of Dickinson's mistress Sarah Emmeline Hamilton. (PD's extraordinary correspondence with Hamilton, including 171 original and mostly-unpublished poems, 474 autograph letters and 349 post cards, is offered separately, and includes more letters from Shannon to Hamilton, along with Piers Plowright's funeral address for Shannon). ONE: Copy of 'The Lightning-Struck Tower'. 64 pp, 8vo. In red cloth in brown and black dustwrapper. In fair condition, lightly aged, in worn and aged dustwrapper. Inscribed on front free endpaper: 'for Sarah - / with / my / love - / S. S. / 2. 3. '4 [2 March 1964?]'. Blurb: 'During the last six years Sheila Shannon has worked in close association with the late W. J. Turner during his editorship of the well-known Britain in Pictures series and, more recently, co-edited with him the series of illustrated anthologies called New Excursions into English Poetry. / For some years she was poetry reviewer for the Spectator in which paper many of these poems first appeared; others have been printed in various periodicals and some have been broadcast in Patric Dickinson's programmes of New Poems.' TWO: ALS (19 February 1965): Air Mail letter from 'Sheila Dickinson / 38 Church Square / Rye, Sussex / England.' Addressed to: 'Miss Sarah Hamilton / The Swiss Farm Excelsior / Frausch Hoek / CAPE / South Africa -'. 2pp, 12mo. A long letter, expressing concern about Hamilton's health and mood on her long trip. She has gone from Rome and needs to see a 'TOP TONSILS EXPERT'. She gives home news and signs 'Sheila'. THREE: ALS ( 16 June 1994): 2pp, foolscap 8vo. To 'Darling Sarah' and signed 'Sheila'. The greater part of the letter describes PD's memorial service: 'David [their son] & Ginny [his wife] & I all felt that the gathering had turned out exactly as we had hoped - & perhaps even better - I was apprehensive beforehand - but so many people came, of all ages & interests, & responded so readily & warmly that I felt there was a happy feeling & that, as at Charing, it was right for Patric - I thought David was absolutely wonderful & I know how very very difficult he found it was to do - & yet he did it with all the tenderness and wit & honesty which must go with anything said about Patric'. She also praises the BBC producer Piers Plowright, and the two readers of PD's poetry Elizabeth Bell and 'Ronald [Pickup]'. FOUR: Printed keepsake on light-blue card of poem 'HEN BLACKBIRD' ('It seems I have a faculty / For rescuing birds') by 'P.D. printed on one side. On the reverse, dated by Hamilton to 1998, is the following in Sheila Dickinson's autograph: 'for / Daphne & Sarah / to bring you my fondest wishes for Christmas - / & with my love - / Sheila.' FIVE: Printed keepsake, on light-green card with the poem 'Often in Dreams' ('Often in dreams I wander / Through splendid cities that seem') by 'P.D.' printed on one side. On the reverse, in Sheila Shannon's hand, 'for Daphne and Sarah - with my love & all very best wishes for Christmas and hopes for a much better and less troubled New Year. / Sheila - / Patric's dreams often became poems & I chose this one because I remember him waking up & telling it to me. It had made him happy - / S.'.

Zustand: UNSPECIFIED. Patric Dickinson has not received his due. A self-styled 'poet and impresario of poetry', Dickinson occupied a central position in the cultural landscape of post-war Britain. As an editor and broadcaster he worked with poets such as Dylan Thomas, Cecil Day Lewis and Roy Campbell, actresses Flora Robson, Peggy Ashcroft and Jill Balcon, and actors Robert Donat, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud. See John Mole's obituary in the Independent, 31 January 1994. From the papers of Dickinson's mistress Sarah Emmeline Hamilton. (His extraordinary correspondence with her, including 171 original and mostly-unpublished poems, 474 autograph letters and 349 post cards, is offered separately). The present item is xviii + 157 + [1]pp, 8vo. In tawny cloth in decorative dustwrapper in blue and rust. In good condition, lightly aged, in worn and stained dustwrapper. Inscribed on front free endpaper 'For Sarah / with my love . / Patric .' Loosely inserted is a plain white card, with writing on both sides in pencil by PD (no address or stamp). Addressed to 'Sarah, darling one,' and signed 'P.' The card is undated, but would appear to concern PD's 1982 collection 'A Rift in Time', which was filled with poems about her. Begins: 'I cant stop from sending you your sweet OWN copy before Wednesday. I will be bringing another, when we come. This one is a bit special, top sort of secret - see? I enclose, for you to see, a letter from John Rice - it shows I've done something, & in particular to keep these poems as poems - my aim.' He mentions his longing for her, a line from Auden, and a children's poetry competition he is judging ('good this year') before stating: 'Such love comes your way thank you for this book - I wouldnt have written it but for ['SE' [Sarah Emmeline] followed by 'P A' in Greek characters, his pet name for her being 'Pallas Athene'] & I love her till the end of doom.' Postscript: 'Keep this under-book under your pillow darling one. I'll bring the other copy w. me.' Also loosely inserted is a newspaper cutting from The Times, 5 September 1964, headed 'Notes on Broadcasting / Holiday from Television / From Our Special Correspondence', with reference to 'Mr. Patric Dickinson, one of the most dedicated of living poets' and another to how 'the Home Service found room for "Time for Verse" conducted with such grace and percipience by Mr. Patric Dickinson'.

Patric Dickinson has not received his due. A self-styled 'poet and impresario of poetry', Dickinson occupied a central position in the cultural landscape of post-war Britain. As an editor and broadcaster he worked with poets such as Dylan Thomas, Cecil Day Lewis and Roy Campbell, actresses Flora Robson, Peggy Ashcroft and Jill Balcon, and actors Robert Donat, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud. See John Mole's obituary in the Independent, 31 January 1994. From the papers of Dickinson's mistress Sarah Emmeline Hamilton. (His extraordinary correspondence with her, including 171 original and mostly-unpublished poems, 474 autograph letters and 349 post cards, is offered separately). The present item is [8] + 466 pp., 8vo. In olive cloth binding in yellow dustwrapper printed in brown. In good condition, in aged and worn dustwrapper. Stylized inscription in Patric Dickinson's autograph in ink on front free endpaper: '[dotted tilde] / Sarah / with much love / from / Patric / & / Sheila / 25 / XII / 67 / [rebus of the couple's address: 38 in Roman numerals, a church, a square, and a stylized version of the word 'Rye'] / [dotted tilde]'. An interesting anthology. The blurb emphasizes that 'The compilers are themselves poets and they have chosen the poems from both love and knowledge of the art of poetry. They believe them to be good poems, and nothing is included merely to illustrate a critic's theory, or a literary fashion. [.] There are also notes to the poems, and cross-references from one age to another, which re there not to identify the dead bones of poetry, but to bring alive the men and women who wrote it and the methods by which they chose to express themselves.' See Image.

Zustand: UNSPECIFIED. Patric Dickinson has not received his due. A self-styled 'poet and impresario of poetry', Dickinson occupied a central position in the cultural landscape of post-war Britain. As an editor and broadcaster he worked with poets such as Dylan Thomas, Cecil Day Lewis and Roy Campbell, actresses Flora Robson, Peggy Ashcroft and Jill Balcon, and actors Robert Donat, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud. See his 1965 autobiography 'The Good Minute' and John Mole's obituary in the Independent, 31 January 1994. From the papers of Dickinson's mistress Sarah Emmeline Hamilton. (His extraordinary correspondence with her, including 171 original and mostly-unpublished poems, 474 autograph letters and 349 post cards, is offered separately). The present item is 39+[1]pp, 8vo. In light-grey boards printed in red, in similar dustwrapper. In good condition, aged and a little discoloured, in worn and aged dustwrapper. There are expalantory notes in ink to sixteen of the poems, ranging from a few words, to (for 'The Fossil Bird'), 'This came from finding a vertebra of an ichtyosaurus on the beach at Lyme Regis. I tuned the fish-lizard into a bird-creature. / 'Poe's raven' fr. the poem 'The Raven' / 'I grow old . . . is fr. Eliot. The idea being to link up all time - stone - clocks - now - ideas -'; and (to 'At the Villa Nelle'), 'A good joke about the intellectuals. So good that Stephen Spender dared not print it in Encounter, as a poem, but put it headed 'Dear Sir' in the Letters.'.

Patric Dickinson has not received his due. A self-styled 'poet and impresario of poetry', Dickinson occupied a central position in the cultural landscape of post-war Britain. As an editor and broadcaster he worked with poets such as Dylan Thomas, Cecil Day Lewis and Roy Campbell, actresses Flora Robson, Peggy Ashcroft and Jill Balcon, and actors Robert Donat, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud. See John Mole's obituary in the Independent, 31 January 1994. From the papers of Dickinson's mistress Sarah Emmeline Hamilton. (His extraordinary correspondence with her, including 171 original and mostly-unpublished poems, 474 autograph letters and 349 post cards, is offered separately). The present item is 38pp, 8vo. Blue paper boards in blue dustwrapper. In fair condition, a little aged and bumped at foot of spine, in aged and worn dustwrapper. Inscribed on front free endpaper 'For Sarah / with my love / Patric'. Annotated in pencil on sixteen pages, ranging from a few words to (for 'The Sailing Race'), 'This poem doesnt come off. It is too obscure. I tried to link 'my father's ghost,' in Hamlet, & what he made Hamlet swear, with the ghost of my own father (& brother) the feeling of delight on the present clashing with my responsibility to the dead, never to forget how & why they died. (war) / This complex failed. The poem is obscure. / The actual race was for 'the Conqueror's Pint' - the big race of the year sailed in November. So the gulls' cry has a double sense, of its sound & All Souls Night'; and (to 'The Swallows'), 'The 'two' are Jill & Cecil Day Lewis. C. D. L. was staying (this was before they were married) & spent most of his time writing letters to J. He also translated some of his version of the Aeneid in the drawing-room. 38 is the only house, I imagine where bits of two versions have been written.'.

Zustand: UNSPECIFIED. Patric Dickinson has not received his due. A self-styled 'poet and impresario of poetry', Dickinson occupied a central position in the cultural landscape of post-war Britain. As an editor and broadcaster he worked with poets such as Dylan Thomas, Cecil Day Lewis and Roy Campbell, actresses Flora Robson, Peggy Ashcroft and Jill Balcon, and actors Robert Donat, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud. See John Mole's obituary in the Independent, 31 January 1994. From the papers of Dickinson's mistress Sarah Emmeline Hamilton. (His extraordinary correspondence with her, including 171 original and mostly-unpublished poems, 474 autograph letters and 349 post cards, is offered separately). The present item is 48pp, 8vo. In dustwrapper printed in green and black designed by Enid Marx. In fair condition, aged and a little discoloured, in worn and aged dustwrapper. Inscribed in ink on front free endpaper 'For Sarah with my love Patric'. Twenty-six pages carry pencil annotations by Dickinson, ranging from a few words, to this (about the poem 'In Living Sleep'), 'A dream I had. ie. the Milton bit. This poem was rejected from my previous two books. Why it's in this one I dont know. Rejected I mean, by my publisher. Ive always thought it says things worth saying.'; and this (of 'Grassgards'), 'Written in the library at the Savile Club. In. 1959. & how marvellously I am confounded! Richard & Rachel Heywood have wholly transformed this house & farm the land & have Chloe & Lawrence (3 & 3 mths). R & R. (New College; & St Hilda's)'. The book also contains a pressed leaf, and a cutting of a review of Dickinson's 'One Hour', broadcast on the BBC Third Programme, dated in pencil to 28 November 1962.