Correspondence to Morley Roberts, 1934.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Pozzo, Fernando.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hudson, W. H. (William Henry), 1841-1922.

Hudson, W. H.

Physical Description:

1 item (6 leaves)

Contained In:

Morley Roberts Papers. Folder 110

Place of Publication:

1934.

Summary:

Fernando Pozzo's letter and enclosures were among items removed from Morley Roberts's personal copy of his book W. H. Hudson: a portrait (see Box 9). Resident in Quilmes, in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentia, Pozzo is a great admirer of W. H. Hudson (Guillermo Hudson), and a long-time correspondent of R. B. Cunninghame Graham, a friend of both Hudson and Roberts. This letter, his first contact with Roberts, tells of steps he has taken to preserve the memory of Hudson in the vicinity of Quilmes, Hudson's birthplace and childhood home, including the founding of a society, Asociación Amigos de Hudson, that sought to arrange purchase and preservation of the house that was Hudson's childhood home, known as Los veinte y cinco ombues (The twenty-five ombu trees).. Pozzo hoped Roberts could supply photographs or other material about Hudson. The following items are also included: 1) a typed text that the Pozzo's Society distributed to be read in the schools in the province, upon the annual commemoration of Hudson that had been instituted on 4 August, Hudson's birth date; and 2) two Spanish-language newspaper clippings, one about Pozzo's memorial to Hudson on a radio program, with photograph of Pozzo (4 August 1934); and the other an article by Pozzo about Hudson and the efforts to preserve his childhood home, from the Argentine newspaper La nación (16 December 1934).

OCLC:

645667312