Herbert J. Harris in New Orphan Houses, Bristol - between late December, 1906 and late December, 1917
from Letter from H.J. Harris to Prof. John Burnett, 20 March 1979, page 8:
Dear Sir [Prof. John Burnett],
If you would like me to fill in a few more details to my story I am willing to do so. I agree that you may consider my story too depressing as to be unbelievable, but I assure you that it is absolutely true in every detail [.]
… more >>H.J. Harris, Letter from H.J. Harris to Prof. John Burnett, 20 March 1979. In Brunel University Burnett Archive of Working Class Autobiographies, number 2:363, p. 8. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1535127490694 accessed: 4 May, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composers| Christmas carols | performed by Children |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | between late December, 1906 and late December, 1917 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |
Notes
H.J. Harris was prompted to correspond 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 referred to as Muller’s Orphanage, aged 3 – 14. Two thousand boys and girls lived in five houses where an in-house school focused on Bible-based education.