23 Jack London,People of the Abyss(London: Isbister, 1903 ), pp. 60 , 126.
24 Everard Wyrall,The Spike(London: Constable, 1909 ), pp. 14 , 15.
25 R. C. K. Ensor, ‘Tramping as a Tramp’,Independent Review 4 ( 1904 – 5 ), 102 –
18 (p. 105 ).
26 Mary Higgs,Glimpses into the Abyss(London: King, 1906 ), p. 267.
27 Helen Thomas,A Memory of W H Davies(Edinburgh: Tragara Press, 1973 ).
(unpaginated).
28 Davies,The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp,p. 203.
29 Richard Stonesifer,W. H. Davies: A Critical Biography(London: Cape, 1963 ),
p. 41.
30 Davies,The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp, pp. 167 – 8.
31 Ibid., pp. 67 , 232 – 4.
32 Cited in Fiona Pearson, ‘W. H. Davies and Contemporary Artists’,Poetry
Wales 18 : 2 ( 1982 ), 73 – 9 (p. 76 .)
33 Bart Kennedy,Wander Pictures(London: Cassell, 1906 ),p. 4 ;Bart Kennedy,
A Tramp Camp(London: Cassell, 1906 ), p. 200.
34 Kennedy,Wander Pictures, pp. 2 , 4 – 5.
35 C. F. G. Masterman,The Condition of England(London: Methuen, 1909 ;
new edn., 1960 ), pp. 139 – 40.
36 The Tramp 2 ( 1910 ), p. 1.
37 Jack London, ‘Road Kids and Gay Cats’,The Tramp 2 ( 1910 ), 30 – 6 (p. 36 ).
38 Harry Roberts, ‘The Art of Vagabondage’,The Tramp 1 ( 1910 ), 22 – 6 (p. 25 ).
39 M. E. M. Donaldson, ‘An Attractive Corner of Inverness-shire’,The Tramp 1
( 1910 ), 299 – 301 (p. 299 ).
40 Scudamore Jarvis, ‘The Caravan’,The Tramp 1 ( 1910 ), 155 – 8 (p. 155 ).
41 Arthur Ransome, ‘On the Road in France’,The Tramp 1 ( 1910 ), 142 – 6
(p. 142 ).
42 J.CrawfordFlitch, ‘On Foot in Mallorca’, The Tramp 1 ( 1910 ), 503 – 7
(p. 504 ).
43 Kennedy,Wander Pictures,p. 252.
44 Margaret Sackville, ‘The New Forest’,The Tramp 1 ( 1910 ), 83 – 7 (p. 86 ).
45 Discussed in Anne Wallace,Walking, Literature and English Culture(Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1993 ).
46 Letter dated 12 June 1909 , Walpole Collection, King’s School, Canterbury.
47 W. H. Davies, Later Days(London: Cape, 1925 ; repr. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1985 ), pp. 15 , 16.
48 Higgs,Glimpses into the Abyss,p. 82.
49 Dawson,The Vagrancy Problem,p. 51.
50 Thomas Holmes,London’s Underworld(London: Dent, 1912 ), p. 56.
51 Cited in Rachel Vorspan, ‘Vagrancy and the New Poor Law in Late Victorian
and Edwardian England’,English Historical Review 92 ( 1977 ), 59 – 81 (p. 76 ).
52 Pound, conversation with Richard Stonesifer, inW. H. Davies,p. 120.
53 HelenThomas,AMemory of W H Davies.
54 Letter of 12 June 1909 , Walpole Collection.
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