Record Number: 33922

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Seebohm has nothing about this chucking cry or call [of a species of snipe], nor has Shaw in his book on the snipe in the Fur and Feather series. I doubt if any of the books will enlighten you about it.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

unknown

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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:

William Henry Hudson

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

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Henry Seebohm

Title:

History of British Birds

Genre:

Natural history

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1896

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

33922

Source:

Print

Author:

William Henry Hudson

Editor:

Denis Shrubsall

Title:

Birds of a Feather: Unpublished Letters of W. H. Hudson

Place of Publication:

Bradford-on-Avon

Date of Publication:

1981

Vol:

n/a

Page:

20

Additional Comments:

Letter from Hudson to J. R. Harding (a London actor interested in birds) 5 July 1907, 40 St Luke's Road, West London

Citation:

William Henry Hudson, Denis Shrubsall (ed.), Birds of a Feather: Unpublished Letters of W. H. Hudson, (Bradford-on-Avon, 1981), p. 20, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33922, accessed: 17 February 2025

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Additional Comments:

It is reasonable to assume here that Hudson owned this book and read it repeatedly.