| Evidence: | 'April 1st. 1918. We came out of the line at night. Back to Arras. H.Q. in cellars in the Hotel de Ville, or Town Hall. Poor Arras! It is in a worse condition than ever before. All our new erections, Y.M.C.A., huts, transport lines, and canteens and officers club are no more. I salvaged a copy of Jones' "Life of R. Browning" from the wreckage of the Y.M.C.A. Library. Our quarters are damp, and they smell. There are also rats, and the place is dark. Some of the Tommies had had a good time. There has been a bit of looting of such wine cellars and estaminets as previous bombardments had left.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 1 Apr 1918 | ||||||||||
| Country: | France | ||||||||||
| Time: | daytime | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Arras | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Robert Lindsay Mackay |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | n/a |
| Date of Birth | 1896 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Army officer, 11th Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | France |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Henry Jones |
| Title: | ?Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher |
| Genre: | Essays / Criticism, Biography, Ephemera |
| Form of Text: | Print: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | stolen Salvaged from wrecked YMCA library, Arras. |
| Record ID: | 29217 | |
| Source - | Manuscript | Other |
| Author: | Digitized version of manuscript., |
| Citation: | Digitized version of manuscript., http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=29217, accessed: 01 June 2023 |
| Mackay seems to be confused about the book he salvaged. It was either a critical work by Henry Jones with a different title, or one of several works entitled "The Life Robert Browning" which he misattributed to Jones. |
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