Meeting held at Gower Cottage. 2nd. Dec. 1943
Muriel Stevens in the chair.
1. Minutes of last meeting read & signed.
2. The treasurer reported on the club’s finances. No accounts were
presented for
inspection, indeed the only member near enough to the treasurer to get a
glimpse
of his A/C book protested that the figures read out in no way corresponded
to
those written down. Amid a good deal of flippant comment a balance in
hand of
6/3 was revealed. A vote of confidence in the treasurer was moved and his
report
accepted.
[...]
5. After a refreshing interval we proceeded to the ever more difficult task of
selecting books for this year’s reading. The Committee [Knox Taylor, Muriel
Stevens and Rosamund Wallis – see minutes of the meeting held 6 October,
XII
Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 4, p. 162] had gone to a good deal of trouble in
order
to put before us a list of books which it was possible to get. However,
these did
not meet with very general approval, so we proceeded to vote on the list of
much
more interesting books many of which the committee had ascertained were
already out of print & unobtainable. [...]
[signed as a true record by] Arnold G. Joselin
15th Jan. 1944 [at the club meeting held at 7, Marlborough Avenue: see XII
Book
Club Minute Book, Vol. 5 (1944-1952), p. 0 – i.e. the page before the first
numbered page]
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Members of the XII Book Club Manuscript: Unknown
