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Record Number: 30120


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37

C. E. Stansfield in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved

2. It should have been mentioned in last meeting’s minutes that the Secretary was asked to write to Dorothy Brain and to Edgar & Mignon Castle acknowledging their letters of resignation. [...] This was duly done and all three offered their best wishes for the Club’s happy continuance.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 27 Nov 1937 and 14 Dec 1937

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Reading
county: Berkshire

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Edgar Castle

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1897

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Schoolmaster, Headmaster of Leighton Park; subsequently Professor of Education at Hull, then Visiting Professor at Makerere

Religion:

Quaker or associated with the Friends

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Victor Alexander

Title:

[letter acknowledging receipt of letter of resignation from the XII Book Club]

Genre:

Letter

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Letter, Notebook

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

30120

Source:

Manuscript

Author:

Victor Alexander

Title:

XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 3 (1931-1938)

Location:

private collection

Call No:

n/a

Page/Folio:

200–3

Additional Information:

Victor Alexander was secretary to the XII Book Club from 1931 to 1940. It is inferred from this that he was the author of this set of minutes.

Citation:

Victor Alexander, XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 3 (1931-1938), private collection, 200–3, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=30120, accessed: 28 March 2024


Additional Comments:

Material by kind permission of the XII Book Club. For further information and permission to quote this source, contact the Reading Experience Database (http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/contacts.php).

   
   
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