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- ID
- cx184
- Title
- The Countryman of To-Day
- Genre
- Essay
- Page Count
- 1
- Word Count
- 300
- Publisher
- Field
- Publication Year
- 1941
- Document Types
- Full-text Online
- Eads, Additions to
- Letters
- Added since 2020
- Massingham, H.J.
A letter in which Bates criticizes H.J. Massingham for factual errors and incorrect quotes from Bates's own writing in a previous article for the Field (attached)
Although the letter makes no mention of England and the Farmer, a recent publication edited by Massingham, it appears in the same period of time as three reviews of that book by Bates as well as a contentious series of letters between the two writers as a result of those reviews.
In The Field (26 July, 1941, p. 115, attached)
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