his book Guide to Dartmoor he refers to what is likely to have been the first letter box. It was placed at Cranmere Pool on northern Dartmoor by a local guide in 1854. In Crossing's memory in 1938 a plaque and letterbox were placed at Duck's Pool on the southern moor by some individuals and members of a walking club known as Dobson's Moormen. He was buried with his wife at Mary Tavy: his house at Mary Tavy bears a commemorative tablet unveiled in 1952. The style of Crossing's work in Guide to Dartmoor has similarities to the much more recent work of Alfred Wainwright. The hand-drawn sketches of views and rough maps of walks together with the descriptive nature of the walks are like those of the Wainwright guides to the Lake District (see Lakeland Guides). Books Leaves from Sherwood, etc.; original poems. Plymouth, 1868 The Ancient Crosses of Dartmoor; with a Description of their Surroundings; Exeter, 1884. An expansion of a series of articles which originally appeared in the Western Antiquary. Amid Devonia's Alps; or, Wanderings and Adventures on Dartmoor. Plymouth, 1888 Tales of the Dartmoor Pixies: Glimpses of Elfin Haunts and Antics. 1890 The Land of Stream and Tor. Plymouth, 1891. (For private circulation) Crockern Tor and the Ancient Stannary Parliament. Exeter, 1892 Old Stone Crosses of the Dartmoor Borders. Exeter and London, 1892 The Chronicles of Crazy Well. Plymouth, 1893 The Ocean Trail. Plymouth, 1894 Widey Court. Plymouth, 1895 A Hundred Years on Dartmoor. Plymouth 1901 The Western Gate of Dartmoor: Tavistock and its Surroundings. London, 1903 Gems in a Granite Setting. Plymouth, 1905 From a Dartmoor Cot. London, 1906 Crossing's Guide to Dartmoor. Plymouth, 1909. (Republished 1990, Peninsula Press, Newton Abbot, ) Crossing's Guide to Dartmoor, the 1912 edition reprinted with new introd. by Brian Le Messurier. Dawlish: David & Charles, 1965 (The third edition was published at Exeter in 1914 and was still in print until about 1940) Folk Rhymes of Devon. London, 1911 Cranmere: The Legendary Story of Binjie Gear and other Poems. London, 1926 Posthumous works Crossing's Dartmoor Worker. Newton Abbot, 1966. A collection of twenty newspaper articles originally published in The Western Morning News in 1903 under the title "Presentday Life on Dartmoor". The book details the activities of a number of workers on the moor, such as the farmers, the dry-stone wall builders, the peat-cutters, the warreners, and miners. Dartmoor's