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- ID
- cx166
- Title
- "Jenny Wren"
- Genre
- Essay
- Page Count
- 1
- Word Count
- 120
- Publication Year
- 1971
- Document Types
- Full-text Online
- Eads, Additions to
- Letters
- Topics
- Birds
Responding to a previous letter in the Daily Telegraph by a Mrs. Davidson, Bates provides a quote from W.H. Hudson in praise of the wren's song, concluding with the summary that "Hudson, in other words, doesn't quite award the wren a gold, but I feel he might have been happy to give it a silver."
In the Daily Telegraph (August 15, 1971, attached).
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