[Letter] 1907 November 4, Chelsea Embankment [to] [William Henry Hudson] / John Galsworthy.

See also other letters from Galsworthy in the collection.

Galsworthy praises Hudson's _The purple land_ and declares that since his books have given Galsworthy so much delight, he ventures to send his own book as a "prima facie evidene that he whom you have enchanted knows the nib from the feather of a pen." A traveller and a naturalist, William Henry Hudson wrote _The purple land that England lost: travels and adventures in the Banda Oriental, South America_ (1885), a book featuring descriptions of Uruguay. Perhaps in part due to their correspondence, Galsworthy later wrote the introduction to Hudson's _Green mansions: a romance of the tropical forest_ (1916 edition) in which he sympathized with the novel's revolt against people's enslavement to mechanistic culture. A playwright and a novelist, notable for his production of the _Forsyte Saga_ (1922), plays like _The Skin Game_ and short story collections such as _The Five Tales_ (1918), Galsworthy's works mark the end of the Victorian era and the beginning of the modernist period.