He is best known for his poem 'Travelling' which contrasts the sights and sounds of a railway journey through grimy urban London with the tranquility of one on the rural Looe Valley Line.
[3] He was made a bard of the Cornish Gorseth in 1934 taking the bardic name 'Morrep'[7] In his poem written c. 1919, Hunt lists stations along the railway line towards the City as called out by the Porter: ‘Peckham Rye, Loughborough, Elephant, St. Paul’s,’ and contrasts them with idyllic sounding destinations on the Liskeard and Looe Railway: ‘Moorswater, Causeland, Sandplace, Looe’… The Bookman wrote of it in 1919 "There is sincerity in every line [...] a note of deep feeling in the seemingly lightly expressed poem 'Travelling'".
[10] In 2012 the railway author Michael Williams called it "one of the most evocative, I reckon, ever written about a country branch line".
[11] When written Peckham Rye, Loughborough Junction, Elephant & Castle and St. Paul’s were stations on the London, Chatham and Dover Railway, now Kent Thameslink.
St. Paul's has since been renamed Blackfriars and Kent Thameslink trains no longer call at Loughborough Junction.