The Henry Williamson Society

'Some Notes on The Flax of Dream & A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight', by Henry

Williamson. This illuminating essay was first published in the Aylesford Review

(Vol II, No. 2, Winter 1957–'58).

'A Fair Seed-time: an illustrated account of Henry Williamson's childhood', by

Anne Williamson. The page also includes perhaps HW's earliest known writing: a

school essay written in 1908 when he was 12, entitled 'Keepers and Birds of Prey'.

In the Woods (including Appendices on: Fr Brocard Sewell and St Albert's Press;

'Machen in Fleet Street; HW's involvement with Aylesford Review literary events)

A Soldier's Diary of the Great War by Douglas Bell, Introduction by Henry Williamson

(Not a new page, but revised and augmented – an album of pencil drawings and

watercolours by Bell, most drawn by him in 1915, has recently been donated to the

Society. The entire album has been scanned and added to this page.)

A Solitary War (vol. 13 of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight; including HW's synopses

for a proposed film, 'Immortal Corn', 1940)

The Unreturning Spring by James Farrar (edited and with an Introduction by Henry

Williamson)

'7.30 a.m.: a time of hope that became an execution hour', newspaper article by HW