N° d'objet
59/304
Description
This is a large, closely-woven sack with the inscription 'Edmund Hobbs // Sonning Farm // 1909'. Sonning Farm was farmed by the Hobbs Family at the end of the nineteenth century, and then by a farmer called Gard. The Hobbs family were tenants of the Palmer family who lived at Holme Park in Sonning. The Farm and Park were purchased by W. J. Fryer, who sold them to the University of Reading in 1935. The sack was found by the donor in 1958.
Description physique
1 sack: fibre
Historique d'archive
Letter, C. A. Jewell to Robert H. Wilson, 8 October 1958 – ‘Your letter about the sack branded ‘Edmund Hobbs – Sonning Farm’ has been forwarded to me. It was indeed curious that it should have survived for so long and that you should have found out more about it. I should be more than delighted to accept it as a memento of the past, particularly as recently I have been making enquiries about the past history of the University Farm at Sonning. // I think you are right in supposing that it has outlived any of the family of Hobbs who farmed the University Farm at the end of the last century as, I think, a tenant farmer of the Palmer family who lived at Holme Park, Sonning. The Hobbs family was succeeded by a farmer called Gard, and, subsequently, the farm with Holme Park was purchased by W. J. Fryer, who sold it to the University in 1935…’
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