Hugh Lofting in the Great War
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In 1915, Hugh Lofting started working for the British Ministry of Information, while still living in New York. I have not yet discovered what he did for them. In 1916 he left his wife and two small…
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Original Title: TIL the author of the Dr. Dolittle series, Hugh Lofting, created the book in a series of letters to his children while he was fighting in the First World War as a way to spare them from the horrors he was witnessing being committed on both humans and animals alike