Herbert J. Harris in The New Orphan Houses, Bristol - between 1906, 09:30 PM and 1917, 09:30 PM
from Letter from H.J. Harris to David Mayall, 30 January 1984, page 6:
Dear David Mayall
Thanks for your letter of January 23. Willingly, I will explain how life in a Victorian Orphanage could be paralleled to what I experienced in a lunatic asylum. (Notice I said lunatic Asylum, NOT mental hospital!)
… more >>H.J. Harris, Letter from H.J. Harris to David Mayall, 30 January 1984. In Brunel University Burnett Archive of Working Class Autobiographies, number 2:363, p. 6. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1535126901609 accessed: 14 December, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composers| unspecified hymns | performed by Children |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | between 1906, 09:30 PM and 1917, 09:30 PM |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |
Notes
H.J. Harris was prompted to corresponded with Prof. John Burnett so that details of his life could be included in the three-volume annotated bibliography, "The Autobiography of the Working Class" (eds. John Burnett, David Vincent and David Mayall). Harris lived at The New Orphan Houses, Bristol, also known as Muller’s Orphanage, aged 3 – 14, followed by a period in an asylum and homelessness, and later, a more settled life.