Gordon Bottomley was a poet, dramatist, close friend of Edward and proof-reader for him.
Letters and postcards, with some annotation and several separate notes by Bottomley.
The letters were deposited in the library of University College Cardiff in 1940.
A manuscript list, compiled perhaps soon after the deposit in 1940, and another typescript list of [1968?] is held with the collection. The letters are numbered on the list 1-240, omitting a postcard of 29 Oct 1902, which is now missing.
The following were missing when checked in Jul 1989:
Postcard 29 Oct 1902
15 Nov 1906
18 Nov 1906
10 Jan 1908
6 Dec 1909
Postcard 14 Jul 1914
Postcard 15 Nov 1916
Postcard 19 Nov 1916
26 Feb 1917
22 Mar 1917
The edition by R. G. Thomas of 182 of the 239 letters and postcards, together with the letters of Helen and Eleanor Farjeon, 1917, was published as 'Letters from Edward Thomas to Gordon Bottomley' (Oxford University Press, 1968)