Record Number: 30582

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 9th. July 1945
    A. Bruce Dilks in the chair

[...]

2. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed.

[...]

4. A letter was read from our late Secretary Victor Alexander congratulating the Club on reaching its 50th birthday and recalling some of its more distinguished past members.

[...]

6. The rest of the evening took the form of a Brains Trust, with Bruce Dilks as question master and all the members providing the brains. [...]

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    [signed as a true record by] Rosamund Wallis 24. 9. ’45. [at the club meeting held at 64 Northcourt Avenue: see Minute Book, p. 41.]'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

9 Jul 1945

Country:

England

Time

evening

Place:

city: Reading
county: Berkshire
specific address: 39, Eastern Avenue

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary reactive unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Margaret Dilks

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1912

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

n/a

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

Members of the XII Book Club

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Victor Alexander

Title:

[letter congratulating the XII Book Club on reaching its 50th. birthday]

Genre:

Ephemera, Unknown

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Letter

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

reading group

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Source Information:

Record ID:

30582

Source:

Manuscript

Author:

Margaret Dilks

Title:

XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 5 (1944-1952)

Location:

private collection

Call No:

n/a

Page/Folio:

37–40

Additional Information:

Margaret Dilks was secretary to the XII Book Club from 1940 to 1970. It is inferred from this, and from the handwriting, that she was the author of this set of minutes.

Citation:

Margaret Dilks, XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 5 (1944-1952), private collection, 37–40, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=30582, accessed: 26 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

It is assumed that it was Margaret Dilks, as secretary of the club, who read out this letter to the club.
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).