Lunt, Dudley Cammett, 1896-....

Dudley Cammett Lunt (1896-1981) was an American lawyer and author. His writing subjects reflected his interests in law, nature, and wildlife as is evident in the manuscript materials for his 1968 book Taylors Gut: In the Delaware State.

Dudley Cammett Lunt (1896–1981) was an American lawyer and author. His writing subjects reflected his interests in law, nature, and wildlife as is evident in the manuscript materials for his 1968 book Taylors Gut: In the Delaware State .

Dudley Cammett Lunt was born in Maine in 1896 and educated at Phillips Andover Academy and at Yale. Lunt trained at law and was a member of the bar in both Maine and Delaware. His writing included various books on nature and law as well as a semiweekly personal column for Wilmington’s Morning News that reflected his long-time interest in nature, the wilderness, and wildlife conservation.

Some of the books written by Dudley Lunt include The Road to the Law (1932); The Bounds of Delaware (1947); The Farmers Bank: an historical account of the president, directors and company of The Farmers Bank of the State of Delaware, 1807–1957 (1957); and Thousand Acre Marsh (1959), a book describing the marshes, swamps, and tidal creeks of both Maine and Delaware. He also wrote Tales of the Delaware Bench and Bar (1963), which sketches the development of the court system in Delaware from colonial times; The Woods and the Sea (1965), a collection of reflections on the natural settings of Maine, and Taylors Gut (1968), the focus of this manuscript collection. Mr. Lunt also edited several volumes of Thoreau’s works, one of which was The Concord and the Merrimack (1954).

Lunt, Dudley Cammett. Taylors Gut: In the Delaware State . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968.