Anon

Tour of the Wye Valley

1920 · Biblio839 — <p>Augustus Charles Edwards & Sons. Hereford. Undated c.1920's. 14pp. Concertina sequential map coloured in outline from Plynlimon to Chepstow with accompanying photographs by Alfred Watkins Augustus Charles Edwards R.G. Gibbs of Cinderford Edward Grosvenor of Chepstow Frank Harris of Lydney and George William Young of Ross. Original green paper covered boards rubbed to edges with small area of surface abraded. Gilt lettering to upper board. Cloth spine. One fold historically repaired with paper tape short closed tear to margin.</p><p>Extremely scarce. No other copies recorded. Not in the British Library. Not in the National Library of Wales.</p><p>From the preface: <br />'Mr Woodrow Wilson late President of the United States is shown to have said:- "Yesterday" he writes from Gloucester "I rode for nearly twenty miles beside the Wye and of all the parts of England I have seen it has most won my heart."'</p><p>An illness struck Wilson in 1896 and he spent the two following months cycling around Britain visiting the landscapes that inspired Wordsworth.</p><p>Bibliographical References:</p><p>Woodrow Wilson; Life and Letters: Princeton 1890-1910 ed. Ray Stannard Baker · 1968<br />"I think and I have quite made up my mind to make a pilgrimage to the region where the 'Lines' were written . . "Yesterday I rode for nearly twenty miles beside the Wye and of all the parts of England I have seen it has most won my heart".</p><p>J. W. Schulte Nordholt in his biography of Woodrow Wilson 'Woodrow Wilson<br />A Life for World Peace' published in 1991 by University of California Press states:<br />"Because so much data have been lost uncertainty rules what we know and understand about the serious illness that struck Wilson in 1896… His loving wife believed too that it was good for him to go away and gave her approval. He spent two months travelling through his beloved England mostly on a bicycle. He visited all the shrines of his romantic imagination. Most important of course were the landscapes that had inspired Wordsworth the Lake District and The Wye Valley… It was a delightful trip that did him enormous good for he lived by such poetic contemplation. He came back with his health greatly improved."</p><p>Harold Garnet Black The True Woodrow Wilson Crusader for Democracy 1946</p><p>Edwin A. Wienstein: Woodrow Wilson: A Medical and Psychological Biography. Princeton Princeton University Press 1981.<br />"Wilson suffered his first stroke in 1896 at the age of 40 an episode characterized by weakness of the right upper extremity and sensory disturbances in the fingers misdiagnosed as neuritis."</p><p><strong>Thomas Woodrow Wilson</strong> 1856-1924 28th president of the United States serving from 1913 to 1921.</p><p><strong>PHOTOGRAPHERS</strong></p><p><strong>Alfred Watkins</strong> 1855-1935 Photographer publisher inventor and author. President of the Photographic Convention of the United Kingdom which was held in Hereford in 1907. Medallist of the Royal Photographic Society in 1910. Elected Member of the Woolhope Club in 1888 and later President of the Woolhope Club. Trustee of the Hereford Municipal Charities for over 30 years. County Magistrate and County Councillor. <br />Author of The Old Straight Track 1925; Old Standing Crosses of Herefordshire 1930; Early British Trackways 1922; The Ley Hunter's Manual 1927; Photography: the Watkins Manual of Exposure and Development 1900; Photography: its Principles and Applications 1911. His obituary in the Daily Express 9th April 1935: "A good citizen … the kind which keeps the public life of the countryside on the highest plane of any in the world. His name was Alfred Watkins. You can conjure with it in Herefordshire and in the counties of the Welsh border."</p><p><strong>Augustus Charles Edwards</strong> Junior 1865-1943 of the renowned Drapers and Furriers Augustus C. Edwards and Sons High Town Hereford. Elected Member of the Woolhope Club in 1888 the same year as Alfred Watkins. Collector of Fine Art and Ceramics. Photographer. Naturalist.</p><p><strong>George William Young</strong> 1874-1938 Photographer of Clytha House Ross on Wye. Born at Howle Hill Walford Ross.</p><p><strong>Edward Grosvenor</strong> 1872-1947 photographer of Belvoir Malvern.</p><p><strong>Frank Harris </strong>1881- of Lydney photographer and historian. <br />Reference: Gloucestershire Archives D3921 News cuttings photographs and correspondence concerning the contribution of Frank Harris and A. W. Trotter to the study of the history of the Forest. Includes Archaeologia Cambrensis 1938 and Field Observations between Severn and Wye 1932; Lord Bledisloe 'The antiquities of Lydney' Transactions of the Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 1929 autographed copy; and various notes by Frank Harris printed in the Transactions of the Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 1936-38. D12443 a series of photographs and negatives taken by the late Frank Harris photographer of Lydney.</p><p><strong>Richard George Gibbs </strong>1867-1944 Photographer born Abenhall Ruardean Forest of Dean. Of High Street Cinderford Forest of Dean in 1921 and 1939. His son George Henry was also a photographer.</p> Augustus Charles Edwards & Sons Limited hardcover