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Record Number: 33052


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I am a week late in thanking you for your parcel and letter … and specially for the book of sonnets which has been constantly either in my pocket or hand. It is just the kind of thing one wants—that can be opened and closed again for five or ten minutes that may come to hand. It contains many fine ones which I had not met before: and altogether its possession is a great boon.’

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 2 Aug 1915 and 9 Aug 1915

Country:

Belgium

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Ploegsteert
county: Hainault
other location: trenches

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


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Charles Hamilton Sorley

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

19 May 1895

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

First Lieutenant, 7th Suffolk Regiment

Religion:

Agnostic

Country of Origin:

Scotland

Country of Experience:

Belgium

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Anon Anon

Title:

[sonnets]

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

33052

Source:

Print

Author:

Charles Hamilton Sorley

Editor:

Jean Moorcroft Wilson

Title:

The Collected Letters of Charles Hamilton Sorley

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1990

Vol:

n/a

Page:

247

Additional Comments:

To Miss Mary Smith, 9 August 1915 [Belgium, near Ypres]. Sorley was probably by this time at Ploegsteert, near Ypres

Citation:

Charles Hamilton Sorley, Jean Moorcroft Wilson (ed.), The Collected Letters of Charles Hamilton Sorley, (London, 1990), p. 247, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33052, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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