Record Number: 33949
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Many thanks for your Hill book. ["On Cambrian and Cumbrian Hills"] I had meant to thank you verbally on the evening of your annual meeting last Friday but it came about on that very day I was compelled by aches to have some teeth extracted and did not feel fit to go out that evening in consequence. I have meanwhile kept your book and others on the country lately sent to me, to read when I get back [i.e. to the country] very soon. I have glanced though the chapter on wild life: of course you are right about the Raven and I was wrong in saying what I did about its rarity. But there is one thing in that charming chapter with which I am not in agreement with you and you know what that is. I do not want to see the large rapacious birds and beasts removed.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Apr 1908 and 15 Apr 1908
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: London
specific address: 40 St Luke's Road
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:4 Aug 1841
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Field naturalist, author
Religion:Protestant (Anglican) in childhood only
Country of Origin:Argentina
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:On Cambrian and Cumbrian Hills: Pilgrimages to Snowdon and Scawfell
Genre:Geography / Travel, Natural history
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsLondon: Arthur C. Fifield, 1908
Provenanceowned
internal evidence suggests a gift not a loan
Source Information:
Record ID:33949
Source:William Henry Hudson
Editor:Denis Shrubsall
Title:The Unpublished Letters of W. H. Hudson, the First Literary Environmentalist, 1841-1922
Place of Publication:Lewiston, N.Y.
Date of Publication:2006
Vol:2
Page:420
Additional Comments:
Letter from Hudson to Henry Salt, 15 April 1908, 40 St Luke's Road, West London.
Citation:
William Henry Hudson, Denis Shrubsall (ed.), The Unpublished Letters of W. H. Hudson, the First Literary Environmentalist, 1841-1922, (Lewiston, N.Y., 2006), 2, p. 420, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33949, accessed: 18 July 2024
Additional Comments:
When Hudson says that he is keeping a text aside to read later, or that he has 'not read' a text, he often means that he has at the time only looked at it briefly, as here. Here this is clearly a reading experience, with the implication of a future, more engaged, reading in a few days hence.