Record Number: 29765

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'The old reason [for not replying to letters] remains, also the old remedy. A good shillingsworth of fine fiction now. [...] A copy of the July “BLUE” enfolding some rather tasteless morsels, a fine article by H. S. Goodwin on Geoffrey Woodhouse, the unspeakably hopeless "Hertford Letter" and several mixed comments on my poems and me — that also fell from the lucky bag. The "Southern Weekly", the "Daily Mirror" and other papers show up the latest buffoonery of A.W.U. [?] quite plainly.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between Sep 1916 and 6 Oct 1916

Country:

France

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Thiepval
county: Somme
specific address: 11th Royal Sussex Regiment Battalion HQ, Mailly

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Edmund Blunden

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1 Nov 1896

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Army Officer and Poet

Religion:

Christian (Anglican)

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

France

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

unknown unknown

Title:

unknown

Genre:

Fiction, Ephemera

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

29765

Source - Manuscript:

Other

Information:

Digitised handwritten letter from The First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University of Oxford (www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit); © [The Edmund Blunden Literary Estate] http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/document/9403

Additional Information:

Letter from Edmund Blunden to his sister Charlotte Blunden, dated 6-7 October 1916, Thiepval (Somme)

Citation:

Digitised handwritten letter from The First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University of Oxford (www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit); © [The Edmund Blunden Literary Estate] http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/document/9403 , http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=29765, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

Date range or reading experience approximate, but assumes reader received his mail on returning from the trenches on the Somme.