√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1900-1945 'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair
1. The Secretary asked permission to reserve the reading o...
Victor Alexander Victor Alexander [Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club (those re... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair
1. The Secretary asked permission to reserve the reading o...
Victor Alexander Edgar and Mignon Castle [Letter of resignation from the XII Book Club] Manuscript : Letter1900-1945 'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair
1. The Secretary asked permission to reserve the reading o...
Victor Alexander Dorothy Brain [Letter of resignation from the XII Book Club] Manuscript : Letter1900-1945 'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair
1. The Secretary asked permission to reserve the reading o...
Victor Alexander Victor Alexander [A brief account of the career of William Fryer Ha... Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair
1. The Secretary asked permission to reserve the reading o...
Victor Alexander Victor Alexander [A review of We were Seven, by William Fryer Harve... 1900-1945 'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair
1. The Secretary asked permission to reserve the reading o...
Helen Rawlings William Fryer Harvey Laughter and Ghosts Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair
1. The Secretary asked permission to reserve the reading o...
Elizabeth T. Alexander William Fryer Harvey Caprimulgus Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair
1. The Secretary asked permission to reserve the reading o...
Francis E. Pollard William Fryer Harvey August Heat Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair
1. The Secretary asked permission to reserve the reading o...
Janet Rawlings William Fryer Harvey Patience Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair
1. The Secretary asked permission to reserve the reading o...
Charles E. Stansfield William Fryer Harvey Laughter and Ghosts Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair
1. The Secretary asked permission to reserve the reading o...
Helen Rawlings William Fryer Harvey Laughter and Ghosts Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair
1. The Secretary asked permission to reserve the reading o...
Howard Smith William Fryer Harvey The Tortoise Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair
1. The Secretary asked permission to reserve the reading o...
Victor Alexander Edgar and Mignon Castle [Letter of resignation from the XII Book Club] Manuscript : Letter1900-1945 'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair
1. The Secretary asked permission to reserve the reading o...
Victor Alexander Dorothy Brain [Letter of resignation from the XII Book Club] Manuscript : Letter1900-1945 'Meeting held 219 King’s Road: 27. 11. 37.
L. Dorothea Taylor in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
2. A number of scenes from Vi...
Victor Alexander Victor Alexander [Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 23 O... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 'Meeting held 219 King’s Road: 27. 11. 37.
L. Dorothea Taylor in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
2. A number of scenes from Vi...
Rosamund Wallis Laurence Housman Victoria Regina Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held 219 King’s Road: 27. 11. 37.
L. Dorothea Taylor in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
2. A number of scenes from Vi...
Celia Burrow Laurence Housman Victoria Regina Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held 219 King’s Road: 27. 11. 37.
L. Dorothea Taylor in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
2. A number of scenes from Vi...
Francis E. Pollard Laurence Housman Victoria Regina Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held 219 King’s Road: 27. 11. 37.
L. Dorothea Taylor in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
2. A number of scenes from Vi...
Ethel C. Stevens Laurence Housman Victoria Regina Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held 219 King’s Road: 27. 11. 37.
L. Dorothea Taylor in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
2. A number of scenes from Vi...
Un-named members of the XI Book Club Laurence Housman Victoria Regina Print : Book1900-1945 '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 m...
Victor Alexander Victor Alexander [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held ... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 '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 m...
Edgar Castle Victor Alexander [letter acknowledging receipt of letter of resigna... Manuscript : Letter, Notebook1900-1945 '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 m...
Edgar Castle Victor Alexander [letter acknowledging receipt of letter of resigna... Manuscript : Letter, Notebook1900-1945 '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 m...
Mignon Castle Victor Alexander [letter acknowledging receipt of letter of resigna... Manuscript : Letter1900-1945 '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 m...
Dorothy Brain Victor Alexander [letter acknowledging receipt of letter of resigna... Manuscript : Letter1900-1945 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
[...]
4. The Book list committee then submitted a list of twelve books with various alternatives. With
one e... Members of the XII Book Club [A committee of the XII Book Club] [List of books suggested for purchase by the XII B... Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
[...]
6. The evening was completed by the reading of extracts from the works of various authors who
had rece... Reginald H. Robson Sinclair Lewis Dodsworth Print : Book1900-1945 Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
[...]
6. The evening was completed by the reading of extracts from the works of various authors who
had rece... Mary Pollard Ivan Bunin The Village Print : Book1900-1945 Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
[...]
6. The evening was completed by the reading of extracts from the works of various authors who
had rece... Dorothea Taylor Eugene O'Neill The Village All God’s Chillun Got Wings Print : Book1900-1945 Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
[...]
6. The evening was completed by the reading of extracts from the works of various authors who
had rece... Howard Smith Roger Martin du Gard Les Thibault Print : Book1900-1945 Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
[...]
6. The evening was completed by the reading of extracts from the works of various authors who
had rece... Sylvanus A. Reynolds John Galsworthy The White Monkey Print : Book1900-1945 Meeting held at St. Margaret’s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38.
F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
[...]
6. C....
Victor Alexander Victor Alexander Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 1... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 Meeting held at St. Margaret’s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38.
F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
[...]
6. C....
Charles E. Stansfield Charles E. Stansfield [A detailed biographical sketch of Æ (AE, or Georg... Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 Meeting held at St. Margaret’s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38.
F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
[...]
6. C....
Mary Pollard George William Russell Gandhi Print : Book1900-1945 Meeting held at St. Margaret’s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38.
F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
[...]
6. C....
Francis E. Pollard Æ [pseud.] The one dimensional mind Print : Book1900-1945 Meeting held at St. Margaret’s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38.
F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
[...]
6. C....
Francis E. Pollard Æ [pseud.] [One or more unidentified poems] Unknown 1900-1945 Meeting held at St. Margaret’s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38.
F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
[...]
6. C....
Victor Alexander Æ [pseud.] [One or more unidentified poems] Unknown 1900-1945 Meeting held at St. Margaret’s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38.
F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
[...]
6. C....
Rosamund Wallis J. M. Synge The Tinker’s Wedding Print : Book1900-1945 February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading”
Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2...
Victor Alexander Victor Alexander Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 2... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading”
Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2...
Reginald H. Robson Saki [pseud.] Beasts and Super-Beasts Print : Book1900-1945 February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading”
Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2...
Reginald H. Robson Saki [pseud.] Beasts and Super-Beasts Print : Book1850-1899 'I am reading Tait and Stewart’s new book. As far as I have gone, a little disappointed. Is my father reading it?' Robert Louis Stevenson Balfour/Peter Guthrie [joint authors] Stewart/Tait Paradoxical Philosophy, a Sequel to the Unseen Uni... Print : Book1900-1945 February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading”
Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2...
Mary S. Stansfield A. W. Lawrence Lawrence by his Friends Print : Book1900-1945 February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading”
Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2...
Howard L. Sikes Julian Huxley Africa View Print : Book1900-1945 February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading”
Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2...
Elizabeth T. Alexander Halliday Sutherland A Time to Keep Print : Book1900-1945 February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading”
Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2...
Elizabeth T. Alexander Halliday Sutherland A Time to Keep Print : Book1900-1945 February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading”
Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2...
Margaret L. LLoyd Benjamin Robert Haydon Autobiography Print : Book1900-1945 February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading”
Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2...
Roger Moore Benjamin Robert Haydon Autobiography Print : Book1900-1945 February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading”
Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2...
Roger Moore Benjamin Robert Haydon Autobiography Print : Book1900-1945 February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading”
Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2.38
... Roger Moore Benjamin Robert Haydon Autobiography Print : Book1900-1945 February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading”
Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2...
Francis E. Pollard John A. Spender The Comments of Bagshot Print : Book1900-1945 February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading”
Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2...
Francis E. Pollard John A. Spender The Comments of Bagshot Print : Book1900-1945 February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading”
Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2...
Francis E. Pollard Kurt Von Stutterheim Those English! Print : Book1900-1945 February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading”
Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2...
Francis E. Pollard Kurt Von Stutterheim Those English! Print : Book1900-1945 Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
4. Readings from Irish Literature were then given as follows:-
C. E... Victor Alexander Victor Alexander Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 1... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
4. Readings from Irish Literature were then given as follows:-
C. E... Charles E. Stansfield George A. Birmingham Spanish Gold Print : Book1900-1945 Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
4. Readings from Irish Literature were then given as follows:-
C. E... Charles E. Stansfield George A. Birmingham Spanish Gold Print : Book1900-1945 Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
4. Readings from Irish Literature were then given as follows:-
C. E... Howard Smith [a story about an illicit still] Unknown 1900-1945 Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
4. Readings from Irish Literature were then given as follows:-
C. E... Mary E. Robson George Bernard Shaw Preface to John Bull’s Other Island Print : Book1900-1945 Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
4. Readings from Irish Literature were then given as follows:-
C. E... Rosamund Wallis unknown [a specimen of Irish literature] Unknown 1850-1899 'How I hate Thackeray's women. He makes Mrs Pen and Laura behave exactly like the women in ''Ruth'' who are so detestable, and Thackeray thinks it quite right.' Emma Darwin William Makepeace Thackeray Ruth Print : Book1900-1945 Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
4. Readings from Irish Literature were then given as follows:-
C. E... Victor Alexander Ross and Somerville An Irish R.M. Print : Book1850-1899 'What a pathetic Essay the last volume of Leslie Stephen's. It is evidently a pouring out of his soul on his wife.' Emma Darwin Leslie Stephen Print : Book1850-1899 'How I hate Thackeray's women. He makes Mrs Pen and Laura behave exactly like the women in ''Ruth'' who are so detestable, and Thackeray thinks it quite right.' Emma Darwin William Makepeace Thackeray [general reference to Thackeray's novels] Print : Book1900-1945 Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
4. Readings from Irish Literature were then given as follows:-
C. E... Elsie Sikes unknown [Irish Bulls] Unknown 1850-1899 'I like Capt. Younghusband's travels, though one might skip pages much like each other.' Emma Darwin Frances Edward Younghusband The Heart of a Continent:a Narrative of Travels in... Print : Book1850-1899 I had a snug evening with Mildred reading part of the broken last novel of L. Stevenson, in which he gives most elaborate descriptions of characters you don't care for. H... Emma Darwin Robert Louis Stevenson The Weir of Hermiston Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at Cintra Avenue
22.IV.1938
1. minutes of last read & approved.'
Victor Alexander Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 1... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 'Meeting held at Cintra Avenue
22.IV.1938
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
The following essays wer... Elizabeth T. Alexander Muriel Stevens His Good Turn Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at Cintra Avenue
22.IV.1938
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
The following essays wer... Muriel Stevens Ethel C. Stevens Anne Thackeray’s Chapters from Memory 1900-1945 'Meeting held at Cintra Avenue
22.IV.1938
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
The following essays wer... Howard Smith Margaret Dilks The Gardener Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at Cintra Avenue
22.IV.1938
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
The following essays wer... Francis E. Pollard Henry Marriage Wallis Some New Thing Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at Cintra Avenue
22.IV.1938
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
The following essays wer... Bruce Dilks Howard Smith The Cotswolds Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at Cintra Avenue
22.IV.1938
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
The following essays wer... Mary Pollard Reginald H. Robson Rupert Brooke Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at Cintra Avenue
22.IV.1938
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
The following essays wer... Mary E. Robson Bruce Dilks The Spacious Firmaments Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at Cintra Avenue
22.IV.1938
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
The following essays wer... Ethel C. Stevens Anne Thackeray Ritchie [Chapters from some memoirs / Chapters from Some U... Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at Cintra Avenue
22.IV.1938
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
The following essays wer... Bruce Dilks Joseph Addison The Spacious Firmament on High Unknown 1900-1945 'Meeting held at Cintra Avenue
22.IV.1938
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
The following essays wer... Reginald H. Robson R. H. Robson Rupert Brooke Unknown 1850-1899 'I am very much interested in Morley's ''Life of Rousseau'' ... Morley does not gloss over any of his crimes or odiousness.' Emma Darwin John Morley Rousseau Print : Book1850-1899 'I have finished ... St Beuve's review of ''Mme d'Epinay's Memoirs'', in which he entirely ignores the horrible indecencies, which I call very immoral.' Emma Darwin Charles-Augustin Sainte- Beuve Review of Mme Epinay's Memoirs Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'Meeting held at 219 King’s Road: 27.5.38
L. Dorothea Taylor in the chair.
1. Minutes of last read + approved
2. A brief introduction to the ... Victor Alexander Unidentified member of the XII Book Club Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 2... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 'Meeting held at 219 King’s Road: 27.5.38
L. Dorothea Taylor in the chair.
1. Minutes of last read + approved
2. A brief ... Reginald H. Robson Reginald H. Robson [A brief introduction to the brothers [sic] Zweig ... Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at 219 King’s Road: 27.5.38
L. Dorothea Taylor in the chair.
1. Minutes of last read + approved
2. A brief ... Francis E. Pollard Stefan Zweig The Right to Heresy: Castellio against Calvin Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at 219 King’s Road: 27.5.38
L. Dorothea Taylor in the chair.
1. Minutes of last read + approved
2. A brief ... Elizabeth T. Alexander Arnold Zweig De Vriendt Goes Home Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at 219 King’s Road: 27.5.38
L. Dorothea Taylor in the chair.
1. Minutes of last read + approved
2. A brief ... Janet Rawlings Stefan Zweig ‘Die Entdeckung Eldorados’, from Sternstunden der ... Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'I keep reading Tess and The Return of the Native -- they fit in admirably with my thoughts.' Siegfried Sassoon Thomas Hardy The Return of the Native Print : Book1900-1945 'Another sharp frost and thick fog this morning. Reading Curzon's Monasteries in the Lavant which Meiklejohn sent me at Christmas. More amusing than Eothen, but Doughty's... Siegfried Sassoon Robert Curzon Visits to Monasteries in the Lavant Print : Book1900-1945 'After a stormy passage I find myself once more at Alexandria and Sheyk Obeyd. During the voyage I read Frederick [sic] Harrison's novel which he has just published, a st... Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Frederic Harrison Theophano: The Crusade of the Tenth Century Print : Book1900-1945 'With Cockerell to Parkstone to see Alfred Russel Wallace, the Grand Old Man of Science ... He complimented me on my pamphlet, "The Shame of the XIXth Century" and expres... Alfred Russel Wallace Wilfrid Scawen Blunt The Shame of the Nineteenth Century: A Letter Addr... Print : Pamphlet1900-1945 'With Cockerell to Parkstone to see Alfred Russel Wallace, the Grand Old Man of Science ... He complimented me on my pamphlet, "The Shame of the XIXth Century" and expres... Alfred Russel Wallace Light Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Lunched with Ralph [Milbanke]. He has decided at last to publish the great Byron secret, and has drawn up the case against Byron and Mrs. Leigh in the form of a book cal... Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Ralph Milbanke Astarte: A Fragment of Truth Concerning Lord Byron Manuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'I bought for 3s. a novel by Mrs Oliphant, ''An English Squire'', with the same irritable young man one knows so well. A very clever description of the feelings of a wido... Emma Darwin Margaret Oliphant Squire Arden? Print : Book1850-1899 'I am wading through Emerson, as I really wanted to know what transcendentalism means, and I think that it is that intuition is before reason (or facts). It certainly doe... Emma Darwin Ralph Waldo Emerson Unknown Print : Book1900-1945 'It is really remarkable how oblivious we are to what is going on overseas. There is very little in the papers about the British Army, even if we had time to read them, a... Douglas Herbert Bell Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'Back to the front line, taking over a stretch of our own, which shows the Staff trusts us ... Some papers came by post - just what I want here.' Douglas Herbert Bell Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'Made a very successful raisin rice pudding over a charcoal brazier. This is War; a straw-strewn barn, heaps of periodicals, a glowing brazier, puddings, and plenty.' Douglas Herbert Bell Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'A mail arrived after dusk. Someone sent me the Bishop's address at the Guildhall, and I read it out to those around, at their request.' Douglas Herbert Bell [Address by the Bishop of London at Guildhall, 191... Print : Unknown1900-1945 'There is a Brigade Order out about the show on the 19th. In it we read that it was supposed to pin German troops to this front to prevent them from fighting the Russians... Douglas Herbert Bell Print : Unknown1900-1945 'There is a Brigade Order out about the show on the 19th. In it we read that it was supposed to pin German troops to this front to prevent them from fighting the Russians... Douglas Herbert Bell [Army Communique] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Talking of slang, the Tommies' name for England is "Blighty". This puzzled me for a bit, till I remembered one of Kipling's stories in which [italics]"Belait"[end italic... Douglas Herbert Bell Rudyard Kipling Print : Book1900-1945 'I have just come across these lines by A. E., which I like, because the stars are your only companions on sentry duty in the trenches; and they seem filled with majesty ... Douglas Herbert Bell George William Russell "Shadows and Lights" Print : Unknown1900-1945 'Glorious day, warm sun. It is funny to sit here quietly chatting and reading with a peaceful view behind over field and wood, when if you move two feet you are as good a... Douglas Herbert Bell Unknown 1900-1945 'It does my heart good — I, who have been so deeply distressed by the tone of the newspapers since my return from France — to hear the soldiers reading them w... Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'This last week many little amenities have softened our lot; after a fornight's detention we had the good fortune to have our grand-motherly sergeant as chief of the guar... Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool Henry Jones Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher Print : Book1900-1945 'This last week many little amenities have softened our lot; after a fornight's detention we had the good fortune to have our grand-motherly sergeant as chief of the guar... Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool Thomas Carlyle Sartor Resartus Print : Book1900-1945 'A new officer has been censoring our letters the last two days. I fancy the C.O. gave orders that they were to be much more strict. He seems needlessly and brutally inqu... [letters addressed to conscientious objectors in c... Manuscript : Letter1900-1945 'The censoring here has become such an unpleasant occasion as almost to take away the joy of receiving letters — chiefest of guard-room amenities. The new officer b... [letters addressed to conscientious objectors in c... Manuscript : Letter1900-1945 'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: <... Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool The Fellowship Hymn-Book Print : Book1900-1945 'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: <... Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool Richard Weymouth The Naval, Military and Village Hymn Book Print : Book1900-1945 'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: <... Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool Walther Rauschenbusch Christianity and the Social Crisis Print : Book1900-1945 'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: <... Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool Harry Emerson Fosdick The Meaning of Prayer Print : Book1900-1945 'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: <... Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool Harry Emerson Fosdick The Manhood of the Master Print : Book1900-1945 'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: <... Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool Student Christian Movement A Book of Prayers for Students Print : Book1900-1945 'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: <... Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool Emil Otto ?An Elementary German Grammar Print : Book1900-1945 'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: <... Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool Charles Hugo ?German Grammar Simplified Print : Book1900-1945 'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: <... Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool The New Testament Print : Book1900-1945 'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: <... Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust Print : Book1850-1899 'My mother had a school-board pupil-teacher to read aloud to her during part of the winter; she wrote: ''I embarked with her in such a frivolous novel all about flirtatio... Emma Darwin Charlotte Mary Yonge Print : Book1850-1899 'I have been reading the scientific letters, and in almost every one there is some characteristic bit which charms one.' Emma Darwin Charles Darwin, ed. Francis Darwin The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin Print : Book1850-1899 'I am driven by stress of bad novels to Carlyle again.' Emma Darwin Thomas Carlyle Unknown, possibly Letters and Memorials of Jane We... Print : Book1850-1899 'We read aloud one of the ''New Arabian Nights'' you mention, which is very amusing ... I particularly admire the ending of the bandbox story...' Emma Darwin Robert Louis Stevenson New Arabian Nights Print : Book1850-1899 'The Irish part of ''Forster's Life'' is very painful and interesting. [...] It is very good anti-Home Rule reading and makes one think worse than ever of Parnell.' Emma Darwin unknown unknown Forster's Life Print : Book1850-1899 'Now I must go to my ''Moral Ideal''. I like all about Plato and Socrates very much.' Emma Darwin Frances Julia Wedgwood The Moral Ideal, a Historic Study Print : Book1850-1899 'The Tom Poole book is pleasant except that every word of Coleridge's letters revolts me, they are a mixture of gush and mawkish egotism, and what seems like humbug.' Emma Darwin Margaret E. Sandford Thomas Poole and his Friends Print : Book1850-1899 'We are not delighted with ''Sir H. Taylor's Letters''. They are not a bit fresh or spontaneous'. Emma Darwin unknown unknown Sir H. Taylor's Letters Print : Book1850-1899 'To my surprise (as I disliked the ''Life of Jefferies'' so much) I like his ''Wild Life in a Southern County'' very much. The descriptions of country and birds are excel... Emma Darwin John Richard Jefferies Life in a Southern County Print : Book1850-1899 'I am reading ''Paradise Regained'' (sandwiched with Rousseau's ''Confessions'') out of compliment to Mr Bright, who used to read it through every Sunday.' Emma Darwin John Milton Paradise Regained Print : Book1850-1899 'I am reading ''Paradise Regained'' (sandwiched with Rousseau's ''Confessions'') out of compliment to Mr Bright, who used to read it through every Sunday.' Emma Darwin Jean-Jaques Rousseau The Confessions of Jean-Jaques Rousseau Print : Book1850-1899 'I am also reading Clough's ''Life''. He was as religious as Lamb at the same age.' Emma Darwin Blanche Clough ?Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough: With a Selec... Print : Book1850-1899 'I am reading Brimley's ''Essay on Tennyson'',and I really think it will set me on reading some of his poems.' Emma Darwin George Brimley Essays, by the Late George Brimley Print : Book1850-1899 'I am reading Brimley's ''Essay on Tennyson'', and I really think it will set me on reading some of his poems.' [But, she added later] 'My reading of Tennyson is come to ... Emma Darwin Alfred, Lord Tennyson In Memoriam Print : Book1850-1899 'Thank goodness I have nearly finished [Stanley's] ''Darkest Africa'' and it must be the most tiresome book in the world, so confused and diffuse, with immense long conve... Emma Darwin Henry Morton Stanley In Darkest Africa: Or the Quest, Rescue, and Retre... Print : Book1850-1899 'The correspondence of Lord Grey and Princess Lieven is as good as history ... There is never a tinge of vanity or coquetry in her letters. His are solemn and dry though ... Emma Darwin The Correspondence of Princess Lieven and George G... Print : Book1900-1945 At Sea, 26 January, 1915.
... A little sketch of the multifarious activities which are going on, simultaneously, on this ship, throughout the live-long day, may interest... First A.I.F. Print : Unknown1850-1899 'I am reading Lowell's Essay on Wordsworth after Shairp and he suits me much better. He is rather caustic and amusing, and his writing is as neat as if it was French, als... Emma Darwin James Russell Lowell Literary Essays Print : Book1850-1899 'I am reading Lowell's Essay on Wordsworth after Shairp and he suits me much better. He is rather caustic and amusing, and his writing is as neat as if it was French,also... Emma Darwin John Campbell Shairp ?Aspects of Poetry Print : Book1850-1899 'I am much interested in De Quincey's letters, or rather in Dorothy Wordsworth's to him. There must have been something very engaging in him to have received such nice, w... Emma Darwin unknown unknown Print : Book1850-1899 'We read ''Severn's Life'' which does very well. He is a rather foolish man, and talks of Keats' dying of the persecution of his enemies when it was consumption...' Emma Darwin William Sharp The Life and Letters of J. Severn Print : Book1850-1899 'These last letters of Johnson are a treat to me. I enjoy poking out bits of news in them.' Emma Darwin Samuel Johnson Letters of Samuel Johnson, LLD 1850-1899 'Our ''stiff'' book is H. James' stories and our ''light'' one Leslie Stephen's ''Hours in a Library'' 3rd series. He is so pleasant after all that subtlety.' Emma Darwin Henry James Unknown Print : Book1850-1899 'Our ''stiff'' book is H. James' stories and our ''light'' one Leslie Stephen's ''Hours in a Library'' 3rd series. He is so pleasant after all that subtlety.' Emma Darwin Leslie Stephen Hours in a Library Print : Book1850-1899 'Crabb Robinson's Diary is a blessing and I can talk with him for a few minutes any time and feel refreshed. I almost think he will set me reading ''The Excursion''!...' Emma Darwin Henry Crabb Robinson Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence of Henry ... Print : Book1850-1899 'I have received the Paradox; I am thinking, I can make something of it, but must first be better.' Robert Louis Stevenson Denis Diderot The Paradox of Acting Print : Book1850-1899 'I've been reading Wilkie Collins: Fosco is very great, very great; I envy Fosco, I had rather been Fosco than R.L.S.' Robert Louis Stevenson Wilkie Collins The Woman in White Print : Book1850-1899 'I have read Maxime; but mark you further — I have never read anything else ... By the way, I have read Maxime du Camp.' Robert Louis Stevenson Maxime du Camp Souvenirs Litteraires Print : Book1850-1899 'I ought to tell you that I read with sincere admiration your very dignified paper on sculptors.' Robert Louis Stevenson Edmund Gosse 'Living English Sculptors' Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Were you to re-read some Balzac, as I have been doing, it would greatly help to clear your eyes.' Robert Louis Stevenson Honore de Balzac [general reference to Balzac's works] Print : Book1900-1945 'His reading in 1938 and 1939 had been mainly of memoirs and autobiographies:
Boswell, Greville, Logan Pearsall Smith's Unforgotten Years, Siegfried Sassoon's The
Old... John Buchan James Boswell ?Life of Johnson Print : Book1900-1945 'He read — Sterne, Sydney Smith's letters, Canning's speeches, and two thrillers: A. E. W. Mason's Konigsmarch and Michael Innes's Lament for a Maker ...' John Buchan Lawrence Sterne Print : Book1900-1945 'He read — Sterne, Sydney Smith's letters, Canning's speeches, and two thrillers: A. E. W. Mason's Konigsmarch and Michael Innes's Lament for a Maker ...' John Buchan Sydney Smith Letters Print : Book1900-1945 'He read — Sterne, Sydney Smith's letters, Canning's speeches, and two thrillers: A. E. W. Mason's Konigsmarch and Michael Innes's Lament for a Maker ...' John Buchan A. E. W. Mason Konigsmarch Print : Book1900-1945 'He read — Sterne, Sydney Smith's letters, Canning's speeches, and two thrillers: A. E. W. Mason's Konigsmarch and Michael Innes's Lament for a Maker ...' John Buchan Michael Innes Lament for a Maker Print : Book1900-1945 'He read — Sterne, Sydney Smith's letters, Canning's speeches, and two thrillers: A. E. W. Mason's Konigsmarch and Michael Innes's Lament for a Maker ...' John Buchan George Canning [Speeches] Print : Book1900-1945 'During these days he was reading two books with enjoyment: Lionel Trilling's Matthew Arnold and Werner Jaeger's Paideia, The Ideals of Greek Culture, which had just arri... John Buchan Lionel Trilling Matthew Arnold Print : Book1900-1945 'During these days he was reading two books with enjoyment: Lionel Trilling's Matthew Arnold and Werner Jaeger's Paideia, The Ideals of Greek Culture, which had just arri... John Buchan Werner Jaeger Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture Print : Book1900-1945 'So after dinner they settled down by the fire with The Northern Muse, Betty van Dusen and Tweedsmuir reading poems alternately; rather, she read from the book, but when ... John Buchan The Northern Muse: An Anthology of Scots Vernacula... Print : Book1900-1945 'So after dinner they settled down by the fire with The Northern Muse, Betty van Dusen and Tweedsmuir reading poems alternately; rather, she read from the book, but when ... Betty van Dusen The Northern Muse: An Anthology of Scots Vernacula... Print : Book1900-1945 'His reading in 1938 and 1939 had been mainly of memoirs and biographies: Boswell, Greville, Logan Pearsall Smith's Unforgotten Years, Siegfried Sassoon's The Old Century... John Buchan Charles C. F. Greville ?The Greville Memoirs Print : Book1900-1945 'His reading in 1938 and 1939 had been mainly of memoirs and biographies: Boswell, Greville, Logan Pearsall Smith's Unforgotten Years, Siegfried Sassoon's The Old Century... John Buchan Logan Pearsall Smith Unforgotten Years Print : Book1900-1945 'His reading in 1938 and 1939 had been mainly of memoirs and biographies: Boswell, Greville, Logan Pearsall Smith's Unforgotten Years, Siegfried Sassoon's The Old Century... John Buchan Somerset Maugham The Summing-Up Print : Book1900-1945 'His reading in 1938 and 1939 had been mainly of memoirs and biographies: Boswell, Greville, Logan Pearsall Smith's Unforgotten Years, Siegfried Sassoon's The Old Century... John Buchan Siegfried Sassoon The Old Century Print : Book1850-1899 'In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone ("seventh or eighth time"), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tuli... John Buchan Algernon Swinburne Poems and Ballads Print : Book1850-1899 'In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone ("seventh or eighth time"), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tuli... John Buchan Richard Doddridge Blackmore Lorna Doone Print : Book1850-1899 'In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone ("seventh or eighth time"), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tuli... John Buchan George Saintsbury Essays on French Novelists Print : Book1850-1899 'In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone ("seventh or eighth time"), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tuli... John Buchan Alexandre Dumas Tulipe Noire Print : Book1850-1899 'In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone ("seventh or eighth time"), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tuli... John Buchan Guy De Maupassant unknown Print : Book1850-1899 'In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone ("seventh or eighth time"), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tuli... John Buchan Victor Hugo Print : Book1850-1899 'In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone ("seventh or eighth time"), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tuli... John Buchan Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier unknown Print : Book1850-1899 'In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone ("seventh or eighth time"), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tuli... John Buchan Andrew Lang Lectures on Literature Print : Book1850-1899 'In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone ("seventh or eighth time"), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tuli... John Buchan Philip Gilbert Hamerton The Intellectual Life Print : Book1850-1899 'In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone ("seventh or eighth time"), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tuli... John Buchan Robert Bridges unknown Print : Book1850-1899 'In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone ("seventh or eighth time"), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tuli... John Buchan Henry James Madonna of the Future Print : Book1850-1899 'In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone ("seventh or eighth time"), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tuli... John Buchan Robert Louis Stevenson Kidnapped Print : Book1850-1899 'I cannot resist the desire to thank you for one of the finest & loftiest works of historical imagination I have ever read.' Henry E. Card (?) Lew Wallace Ben-Hur Print : Book1850-1899 'Pray make what use you like of the letter I wrote regarding Ben-Hur, to Lady Eardley. Few books that I have read have given me greater pleasure and I thoroughly appreci... John Vertue Lew Wallace Ben-Hur Print : Book1850-1899 'By the way, what an admirable book is All Sorts and Conditions of Men. I have rarely read anything with greater sympathy ...' Robert Louis Stevenson Walter Besant All Sorts and Conditions of Men Print : Book1850-1899 '... the work has come, and a very portly tome it is; and I have already read Lodge and Webster...' Robert Louis Stevenson Edmund Gosse Print : Book1850-1899 'I am grown to like Lowell much better at the end. He adores London and its climate especially, and the Parks and the thrushes all winter through.' Emma Darwin unknown Lowell Unknown Print : Book1850-1899 'I am deep in ''Dean Stanley's Life'' and I like it so much.' Emma Darwin R. E. & G. G. Prothero & Bradley The Life and Correspondence of Arthur Penrhyn Stan... Print : Book1850-1899 'You asked me about the ''Message of Israel''. I believe no books now affect me any more than by a transient interest. It did draw my attention to some sublime bits in th... Emma Darwin Julia Wedgwood The Message of Israel in the Light of Modern Criti... Print : Book1850-1899 'Augustus Hare's ''Two Noble Lives'' is most entertaining and pleasant, though the letters are merely natural, and telling what happens without a spark of wit and humour.... Emma Darwin Augustus J. C. Hare The Story of Two Noble Lives: being Memories of Ch... Print : Book1850-1899 ''I have been reading Waldstein's ''Ruskin''. The admiring part I did not feel up to, but the chapter on social questions delights me as speaking so strongly of his narro... Emma Darwin Charles Waldstein The Work of John Ruskin: Its influence on Modern T... Print : Book1900-1945 'Steady downpour all day long. Weather is worse than we get in England. No wonder Uncle Toby in [italics] Tristram Shandy [end italics] said "our armies swore terribly in... Albert John Martin Laurence Sterne The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlema... Print : Book1900-1945 'It is surprising how irritating it is when simple little questions or arguments arise which none of us can settle because we have no other sources of information than ou... Albert John Martin William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice Print : Book1900-1945 'Received a parcel from Elsie containing tobacco (most welcome), papers and a little book of war poems called [italics] Counter-attack [end italics] by Siegfried Sassoon.... Albert John Martin Siegfried Sassoon Counter-Attack and Other Poems Print : Book1900-1945 'My difficulties were much increased because none of the Turks could speak English.
To get over this handicap, I tried to recollect some French, that admirable language... William Collis Spackman La Vie Parisienne Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'My difficulties were much increased because none of the Turks could speak English.
To get over this handicap, I tried to recollect some French, that admirable language... William Collis Spackman "salty French novels" Print : Book1900-1945 '... as we drifted gaily down the sparkling river [Tigris] in perfect autumnal weather, I thought of Browning's [italics] Wanderers [end italics] .... For on my kelek I h... William Collis Spackman Robert Browning "The Wanderers" Print : Book1900-1945 'Shaved, breakfast - porridge, bread & butter, tea. Read "The Mystery of the Sands" [sic]. Dinner of roast beef, cabbage & potatoes, rice. Slept a little. Head shaved, wo... John Frederick William Dunn Erskine Childers The Riddle of the Sands Print : Book1900-1945 'B[reakfast] Herring, bread & butter, tea. Read "The Amazing Duke".' John Frederick William Dunn William Magnay The Amazing Duke Print : Book1900-1945 'D[inner] Stew, potatoes, rice. Read "The Call of the Wild". Dozed.' John Frederick William Dunn Jack London The Call of the Wild Print : Book1900-1945 'Read. Received kit. Read "The Edge o' Beyond". Inoculated.' John Frederick William Dunn Gertrude Page The Edge o' Beyond Print : Book1900-1945 'Read. Wounds dressed. Read "The Japs at Home".' John Frederick William Dunn Douglas Sladen The Japs at Home Print : Book1900-1945 'Read "Barbe of Grand Bayon". Wound dressed. Head finished. Bath, read, cut dressings. Read "Rhymes of a Red Cross Man".' John Frederick William Dunn John Oxenham Barbe of Grand Bayon Print : Book1900-1945 'Read "Barbe of Grand Bayon". Wound dressed. Head finished. Bath, read, cut dressings. Read "Rhymes of a Red Cross Man".' John Frederick William Dunn Robert W. Service Rhymes of a Red Cross Man Print : Book1900-1945 'Read, wounds dressed. Read "The Way of an Eagle".' John Frederick William Dunn Ethel Dell The Way of an Eagle Print : Book1900-1945 'Read ... "Barlash [sic] of the Guard". Dressed & sat by the fire. Dominoes.' John Frederick William Dunn Henry Seton Merriman Barlasch of the Guard Print : Book1900-1945 'Read "An Adventure of the North".' John Frederick William Dunn Gilbert Parker An Adventure of the North Print : Book1900-1945 'Read. Wounds dressed ... Visit from Miss Davies and a friend (Miss Stevenson). She brought 8 books & chocs. Talked for 1/2 hour. Also a book of Camp Songs by Dr Walford ... John Frederick William Dunn Anthony Hope Hawkins The Chronicles of Count Antonio Print : Book1850-1899 'I believe you would like Mrs Craven if you could skip all the religion. In the year '86 she has exactly our feelings about Ireland and [the] G.O.M.'s mad folly.' Emma Darwin Pauline Marie Armande Aglaé Craven Unknown Print : Book1900-1945 'Much as he had liked [his previous employers], George Michael [Clarkson] liked the builder-brothers just as well. The feeling was mutual, and the brothers tried to fill ... George Michael Clarkson Print : Book1900-1945 'When asked how he passed the time in the [ship's jail] cell, [Edward] Pullen replied, "Just read the Bible, that's all. Nothing else. You wouldn't have nothing else ... ... Edward Pullen The Bible Print : Book1850-1899 'The French stories by Julliot are dull and odious, and the little novel ''La Folle du Logis'' quite pretty and nice. How very odd the French are.' Emma Darwin Francois de Julliot ?Terre de France Print : Book1850-1899 'The French stories by Julliot are dull and odious, and the little novel ''La Folle du Logis'' quite pretty and nice. How very odd the French are.' Emma Darwin Francois de Julliot La Folle du Logis Print : Book1850-1899 'I seem to have been reading nothing but about young girls lately — Miss Bronte, Miss Edgeworth, the Burneys, the Winkworths.' Emma Darwin Frances or Sarah Burney Unknown Print : Book1850-1899 'I seem to have been reading nothing but about young girls lately — Miss Bronte, Miss Edgeworth, the Burneys, the Winkworths.' Emma Darwin unknown unknown [Biography of Catherine and Susannah Winkworth] Print : Book1850-1899 'I am reading the Psalms and I cannot conceive how they have satisfied the devotional feelings of the world for such centuries.' Emma Darwin The Bible Print : Book1850-1899 'Matheson is reading ''Macauley's Life'' to me, and his letters are delightful.' Emma Darwin George Otto Trevelyan The Life and Letters of Lord Macauley Print : Book1850-1899 'My reader is a great success. It is ''Cranford'', and ''D-n Dr Johnson'' comes in. She stopped dead and said ''a slang expression''. I can't perceive she is ever amused.... Emma Darwin Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Cranford Print : Book1850-1899 'I have finished Balfour. Of course I don't do the book justice, but the last two or three pages seem to me very inconclusive.'
Emma Darwin A. J. Balfour The Foundations of Belief Print : Book1850-1899 'I have found Voltaire's ''Louis XIV. very pleasant and short, leaving out all the battles. Voltaire seems so impressed with his magnanimity and generosity ... V. seems r... Emma Darwin Voltaire The Age of Lewis XIV Print : Book1900-1945 '"The choice of reading material [in ship's gaol] was either the [italics] Manual of Seamanship [end italics] or the Bible. Having been a freethinker for several years ..... John Edward Needham The Bible Print : Book1900-1945 'Read - book "Gallipoli" from Rev. Robt. Overton by post. Parcel cake from Mrs Scales. Wrote Reg ... Crib[bage] & read "Tales of Two People".' John Frederick William Dunn John Masefield Gallipoli Print : Book1900-1945 'Read - book "Gallipoli" from Rev. Robt. Overton by post. Parcel cake from Mrs Scales. Wrote Reg ... Crib[bage] & read "Tales of Two People".' John Frederick William Dunn Anthony Hope Hawkins Tales of Two People Print : Book1900-1945 'Read "Gallipoli" (John Masefield).' John Frederick William Dunn John Masefield Gallipoli Print : Book1900-1945 'Read "The Coryston Family". Was again fitted with a uniform. Wrote to Mrs Davies.' John Frederick William Dunn Mrs Humphry Ward The Coryston Family Print : Book1900-1945 'Wrote to Reg. Read "The Right Stuff". Up on the mat for being late last night. Pass stopped!? Visit from Miss Barnsley and her aunt - Mrs Frank Wright. Sweets & 5 books.... John Frederick William Dunn Ian Hay The Right Stuff Print : Book1900-1945 'Still here [in camp] doing nothing and enjoying books. One book Ernest Maltravers by Lytton has impressed me very much.' John Owen Maddox Edward Bulwer-Lytton Ernest Maltravers Print : Book1850-1899 'Let me say that I have read several of your letters published in the Courant , and found them competently done.' Robert Louis Stevenson Charles Gray Robertson [See below, Additional Comments.] Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 My dear Mrs Oliphant, I address you freely, because I have a full heart just now; and I had rather speak foolishly out of my enthusiasm than hold my tongue afterwards in ... Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret Oliphant A Beleaguered City. Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Your "Dumas" I think exquisite.' Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest Henley 'Dumas' Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Have you read Meredith's "Love in the Valley"? It got me, I wept; I remembered that poetry existed.' Robert Louis Stevenson George Meredith Love in the Valley Print : Unknown1850-1899 'He had a pretty full translation of Schiller's Aesthetic Letters. which we read together ...' Robert Louis Stevenson Friedrich Schiller On the Aesthetic Education of Man in a Series of L... Print : Unknown1850-1899 'He had a pretty full translation of Schiller's Aesthetic Letters. which we read together, as well as the second part of Faust.' Robert Louis Stevenson Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust Print : Unknown1800-1849 'James Montgomery, Esq., a poet of great merit, edited at this period the Sheffield
Iris, a paper of wide circulation, and penned a most flattering review of “Airedale,... James Montgomery John Nicholson Airedale in Ancient Times, Elwood and Elvina, The ... Print : Book1800-1849 1850-1899 'Life of a coster girl — one of six children, "She [mother] always liked to hear us read to her whilst she was washing or such like! and then we big ones had to lea... unknown Unknown 1800-1849 1850-1899 'The man, a tall, thick-built, almost goodlooking fellow, with a large fur cap on his head, lived with his family in a front kitchen, and as there were, with his mother-i... unknown Print : Newspaper1800-1849 1850-1899 'Interview with a execution broadsheet seller visiting poor villages in Norfolk: 'Not long after Rush was hung, he saw, one evening after dark, through the uncurtained co... [broadsheet of Rush's execution] Print : Broadsheet1900-1945 'Meeting held at 7, Marlborough Avenue. 15th Jan, 1944
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2. The minutes of the last meeting were read and... Margaret Dilks Margaret Dilks Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 2... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 'Meeting held at 7, Marlborough Avenue. 15th Jan, 1944
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2. The minutes of the last m... Howard Smith Howard Smith [a biographical sketch of Percy Bysshe Shelley] Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at 7, Marlborough Avenue. 15th Jan, 1944
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2. The minutes of the last m... Francis E. Pollard Percy Bysshe Shelley Ode to the West Wind Unknown 1900-1945 'Meeting held at 7, Marlborough Avenue. 15th Jan, 1944
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2. The minutes of the last m... Howard Smith unknown unknown [unknown texts on the life of Shelley] Print : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at 7, Marlborough Avenue. 15th Jan, 1944
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2. The minutes of the last m... Margaret Dilks Margaret Dilks [an appreciation of Shelley’s poetry] Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at 7, Marlborough Avenue. 15th Jan, 1944
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2. The minutes of the last m... Margaret Dilks Percy Bysshe Shelley [unknown poetical works] Unknown 1900-1945 'Meeting held at 7, Marlborough Avenue. 15th Jan, 1944
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2. The minutes of the last m... Bruce Dilks Percy Bysshe Shelley The Masque of Anarchy Unknown 1900-1945 'Meeting held at 7, Marlborough Avenue. 15th Jan, 1944
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2. The minutes of the last m... Rosamund Wallis Percy Bysshe Shelley Adonaïs: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Auth... Unknown 1900-1945 'Meeting held at 7, Marlborough Avenue. 15th Jan, 1944
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2. The minutes of the last m... Francis E. Pollard Percy Bysshe Shelley A Lament Unknown 1900-1945 'Meeting held at 7, Marlborough Avenue. 15th Jan, 1944
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2. The minutes of the last meeting were read and... Members and perhaps guests of the XII Book Club anon [an ‘In Memoriam’ verse printed in the Berkshire C... Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'Meeting held at 7, Marlborough Avenue. 15th Jan, 1944
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2. The minutes of the last meeting were read and... [unknown member of the XII Book Club] [unknown schoolboy] [lines in verse on the relative merits of perpetua... Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at 7, Marlborough Avenue. 15th Jan, 1944
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2. The minutes of the last m... [unidentified headmaster of the unidentified author] [unknown schoolboy] [lines in verse on the relative merits of perpetua... Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at 7, Marlborough Avenue. 15th Jan, 1944
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2. The minutes of the last meeting were read and... Sylvanus A. Reynolds Margaret Dilks Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 1... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 'Meeting held at “Oakdene”, Northcourt Avenue. 14.2.44
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2. The minutes of the last meeting were re... Margaret Dilks Margaret Dilks Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 1... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 'Meeting held at “Oakdene”, Northcourt Avenue. 14.2.44
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2. The minutes of the ... Rosamund Wallis Rosamund Wallis [a biographical essay on André Maurois, up to 1939... Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at “Oakdene”, Northcourt Avenue. 14.2.44
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2. The minutes of the ... Rosamund Wallis André Maurois Call No Man Happy Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at “Oakdene”, Northcourt Avenue. 14.2.44
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2. The minutes of the ... Rosamund Wallis André Maurois Call No Man Happy Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at “Oakdene”, Northcourt Avenue. 14.2.44
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2. The minutes of the ... Howard Smith André Maurois The Silence of Colonel Bramble Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at “Oakdene”, Northcourt Avenue. 14.2.44
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2. The minutes of the ... Isabel Taylor André Maurois Ariel Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at “Oakdene”, Northcourt Avenue. 14.2.44
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2. The minutes of the ... Francis E. Pollard André Maurois Disraeli Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at “Oakdene”, Northcourt Avenue. 14.2.44
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2. The minutes of the ... Frank Knight André Maurois Byron Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at “Oakdene”, Northcourt Avenue. 14.2.44
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2. The minutes of the ... Knox Taylor André Maurois History of England Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at “Oakdene”, Northcourt Avenue. 14.2.44
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2. The minutes of the ... Kenneth F. Nicholson Kenneth F. Nicholson [a biographical essay on André Maurois, 1939–1944] Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at “Oakdene”, Northcourt Avenue. 14.2.44
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2. The minutes of the ... Kenneth F. Nicholson unknown [unknown texts concerning the life of André Mauroi... Unknown 1900-1945 'Meeting held at “Oakdene”, Northcourt Avenue. 14.2.44
S. A. Reynolds in the chair.
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2. The minutes of the last meeting were re... Knox Taylor Margaret Dilks Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 1... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 'We entrained about 3 pm in cattle trucks. The Belgians had straw in theirs, and 20 men to a truck. We had 40 men, and no straw. A further distinction was made with the a... James Clifford Farrant unknown unknown unknown Manuscript : Graffito, Chalk-written sign.1900-1945 'In the German barracks "Gott strafe England " was chalked up in many conspicuous places. It was also the headline on their bread coupon cards.' James Clifford Farrant unknown unknown unknown Manuscript : Graffito, Chalk-written sign.1900-1945 'Each day there is a "Budget" published, the work of the more literary and energetic of our members, chiefly consisting of the various "officials" taken from the German p... Douglas Lyall Grant unknown unknown [POW camp publication] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Meeting held at School House. 13th March 1944
J. Knox Taylor in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.
[...] Margaret Dilks Margaret Dilks Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 1... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 'Meeting held at School House. 13th March 1944
J. Knox Taylor in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed. Kenneth F. Nicholson Kenneth Nicholson The Novel Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at School House. 13th March 1944
J. Knox Taylor in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed. Frank Knight William De Morgan Alice-for-short: a dichronism Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at School House. 13th March 1944
J. Knox Taylor in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed. Elsie Harrod Daphne Du Maurier Rebecca Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at School House. 13th March 1944
J. Knox Taylor in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed. Knox Taylor George Meredith The Ordeal of Richard Feverel Print : Book'Meeting held at School House. 13th March 1944
J. Knox Taylor in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed. [unknown member of the XII Book Club] Richard Llewellyn How Green Was my Valley Print : Book'Meeting held at School House. 13th March 1944
J. Knox Taylor in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed. [unknown member of the XII Book Club] Mary Webb Precious Bane Print : Book'Meeting held at School House. 13th March 1944
J. Knox Taylor in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.
[...] Rosamund Wallis Margaret Dilks Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 1... Manuscript : Notebook1. Apologies for absence were received from Margaret and A. Bruce Dilks, Alice
and Arnold Joselin, Sylvanus A. Reynolds, Kenneth F. Nicholson, Francis H. Knight.
[Acting secretary of the XII Book Club] Margaret Dilks Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 1... Manuscript : Notebook1. Apologies for absence were received from Margaret and A. Bruce Dilks, Alice
and Arnold Joselin, Sylvanus A. Reynolds, Kenneth F. Nicholson, Francis H. Knight.
K. Waschauer Leonardo da Vinci [unidentified letters] Print : Book1. Apologies for absence were received from Margaret and A. Bruce Dilks, Alice
and Arnold Joselin, Sylvanus A. Reynolds, Kenneth F. Nicholson, Francis H. Knight.
Francis E. Pollard Abraham Lincoln [unidentified letters] Print : Book1. Apologies for absence were received from Margaret and A. Bruce Dilks, Alice
and Arnold Joselin, Sylvanus A. Reynolds, Kenneth F. Nicholson, Francis H. Knight.
Edith B. Smith [anonymous authors] [unidentified humorous letters] Print : Book1. Apologies for absence were received from Margaret and A. Bruce Dilks, Alice
and Arnold Joselin, Sylvanus A. Reynolds, Kenneth F. Nicholson, Francis H. Knight.
Howard Smith [anonymous authors] [unidentified humorous letters] Print : Book1. Apologies for absence were received from Margaret and A. Bruce Dilks, Alice
and Arnold Joselin, Sylvanus A. Reynolds, Kenneth F. Nicholson, Francis H. Knight.
Howard Smith Émile Zola [letters on the Dreyus case] Print : Book1. Apologies for absence were received from Margaret and A. Bruce Dilks, Alice
and Arnold Joselin, Sylvanus A. Reynolds, Kenneth F. Nicholson, Francis H. Knight.
Muriel Stevens [anonymous authors] [letters written to children] Unknown 1. Apologies for absence were received from Margaret and A. Bruce Dilks, Alice
and Arnold Joselin, Sylvanus A. Reynolds, Kenneth F. Nicholson, Francis H. Knight.
Elsie Harrod Robert Falcon Scott [Some or all of Captain Scott’s last letters] Print : Book1. Apologies for absence were received from Margaret and A. Bruce Dilks, Alice
and Arnold Joselin, Sylvanus A. Reynolds, Kenneth F. Nicholson, Francis H. Knight.
Rosamund Wallis J. M. Barrie [Letter to Mrs. Scott] Print : Book1. Apologies for absence were received from Margaret and A. Bruce Dilks, Alice
and Arnold Joselin, Sylvanus A. Reynolds, Kenneth F. Nicholson, Francis H. Knight.
Mary S. Stansfield Gertrude Bell [Letters] Print : Book1900-1945 1. Apologies for absence were received from Margaret and A. Bruce Dilks, Alice
and Arnold Joselin, Sylvanus A. Reynolds, Kenneth F. Nicholson, Francis H. Knight.
Francis E. Pollard [Acting secretary of the XII Book Club] Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 2... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 'I flew the 1½ Strutter—great machine. News of Chadwick in The Daily Sketch . He had been compelled to land through engine failure in a field near Tirelemont and co... Charles Philip Oldfield Bartlett The Daily Sketch Print : Newspaper1900-1945 Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, 21st June 1944
F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. Minutes of last meeting were read and signed.
[...] Margaret Dilks [Acting secretary of the XII Book Club] Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 2... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, 21st June 1944
F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. Minutes of last meeting were read and signed.
[...] Howard Smith Howard Smith [essay on the life of G. K. Chesterton] Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, 21st June 1944
F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. Minutes of last meeting were read and signed.
[...] Francis E. Pollard G. K. Chesterton Robert Browning Print : Book1900-1945 Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, 21st June 1944
F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. Minutes of last meeting were read and signed.
[...] Margaret Dilks G. K. Chesterton Orthodoxy Print : Book1900-1945 Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, 21st June 1944
F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. Minutes of last meeting were read and signed.
[...] Rosamund Wallis G. K. Chesterton French and English Print : Book1900-1945 Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, 21st June 1944
F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. Minutes of last meeting were read and signed.
[...] Isabel Taylor G. K. Chesterton The Blue Cross Print : Book1900-1945 Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, 21st June 1944
F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. Minutes of last meeting were read and signed.
[...] Kenneth F. Nicholson G. K. Chesterton The Pessimist Unknown 1900-1945 Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, 21st June 1944
F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. Minutes of last meeting were read and signed.
[...] Kenneth F. Nicholson G. K. Chesterton Antichrist, or the Reunion of Christendom: An Ode Unknown 1900-1945 Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, 21st June 1944
F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. Minutes of last meeting were read and signed.
[...] Kenneth F. Nicholson G. K. Chesterton King’s Cross Station Unknown 1900-1945 Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, 21st June 1944
F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. Minutes of last meeting were read and signed.
[...] Howard Smith unknown [works concerning the life of G. K Chesterton] Unknown 1900-1945 'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, 21st June 1944
F. E. Pollard in the chair.
[...]
10. It was too late to hear the readings from Chest... [unnamed member[s] of the XII Book Club] G. K. Chesterton Charles Dickens Print : Book1900-1945 Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, 21st June 1944
F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. Minutes of last meeting were read and signed.
[...] Howard Smith Margaret Dilks Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 2... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
Howard R. Smith in the chair.
1. Minutes of last meeting were read and signed.
2. The Secret... Margaret Dilks Margaret Dilks Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 2... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
Howard R. Smith in the chair.
1. Minutes of last meeting were read and signed.
... Charles E. Stansfield Margaret Dilks [Letter of greetings from the XII Book Club to Cha... Manuscript : Letter1900-1945 'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
Howard R. Smith in the chair.
1. Minutes of last meeting were read and signed.
... Margaret Dilks Margaret Dilks [Copy of a letter of greetings from the XII Book C... Manuscript : Letter, Copy of a letter made by its sender'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
Howard R. Smith in the chair.
1. Minutes of last meeting were read and signed.
... Margaret Dilks Charles E. Stansfield [Reply to a letter of greetings from the XII Book ... Manuscript : Letter'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
Howard R. Smith in the chair.
[...]
7. “Love Came In” by Beatrice Saxon... Francis E. Pollard Beatrice Saxon-Snell Love Came In Print : Book'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
Howard R. Smith in the chair.
[...]
7. “Love Came In” by Beatrice Saxon-Snell was read with... Isabel Taylor Beatrice Saxon-Snell Love Came In Print : Book'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
Howard R. Smith in the chair.
[...]
7. “Love Came In” by Beatrice Saxon-Snell was read with... Elsie Harrod Beatrice Saxon-Snell Love Came In Print : Book'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
Howard R. Smith in the chair.
[...]
7. “Love Came In” by Beatrice Saxon-Snell was read with... Bruce Dilks Beatrice Saxon-Snell Love Came In Print : Book'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
Howard R. Smith in the chair.
[...]
7. “Love Came In” by Beatrice Saxon-Snell was read with... Howard Smith Beatrice Saxon-Snell Love Came In Print : Book'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
Howard R. Smith in the chair.
[...]
7. “Love Came In” by Beatrice Saxon-Snell was read with... Howard Smith Howard Smith [The historical background to the events dramatise... Manuscript : Unknown'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
Howard R. Smith in the chair.
[...]
7. “Love Came In” by Beatrice Saxon-Snell was read with... Bruce Dilks Stanley Houghton The Dear Departed Print : Book'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
Howard R. Smith in the chair.
[...]
7. “Love Came In” by Beatrice Saxon-Snell was read with... Muriel Stevens Stanley Houghton The Dear Departed Print : Book'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
Howard R. Smith in the chair.
[...]
7. “Love Came In” by Beatrice Saxon-Snell was read with... Howard Smith Stanley Houghton The Dear Departed Print : Book'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
Howard R. Smith in the chair.
[...]
7. “Love Came In” by Beatrice Saxon-Snell was read with... Rosamund Wallis Stanley Houghton The Dear Departed Print : Book'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
Howard R. Smith in the chair.
[...]
7. “Love Came In” by Beatrice Saxon-Snell was read with... Margaret Dilks Stanley Houghton The Dear Departed Print : Book'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
Howard R. Smith in the chair.
[...]
7. “Love Came In” by Beatrice Saxon-Snell was read with... Francis E. Pollard Stanley Houghton The Dear Departed Print : Book'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
Howard R. Smith in the chair.
[...]
7. “Love Came In” by Beatrice Saxon-Snell was read with... Francis E. Pollard Francis Sladen-Smith The Man who wouldn't go to Heaven Print : Book'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
Howard R. Smith in the chair.
[...]
7. “Love Came In” by Beatrice Saxon-Snell was read with... Margaret Dilks Francis Sladen-Smith The Man who wouldn't go to Heaven Print : Book'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
Howard R. Smith in the chair.
[...]
7. “Love Came In” by Beatrice Saxon-Snell was read with... Bruce Dilks Francis Sladen-Smith The Man who wouldn't go to Heaven Print : Book'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
Howard R. Smith in the chair.
[...]
7. “Love Came In” by Beatrice Saxon-Snell was read with... Howard Smith Francis Sladen-Smith The Man who wouldn't go to Heaven Print : Book'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
Howard R. Smith in the chair.
[...]
7. “Love Came In” by Beatrice Saxon-Snell was read with... Muriel Stevens Francis Sladen-Smith The Man who wouldn't go to Heaven Print : Book'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
Howard R. Smith in the chair.
[...]
7. “Love Came In” by Beatrice Saxon-Snell was read with... Dorothea Taylor Francis Sladen-Smith The Man who wouldn't go to Heaven Print : Book'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
Howard R. Smith in the chair.
[...]
7. “Love Came In” by Beatrice Saxon-Snell was read with... Ruth Beck Francis Sladen-Smith The Man who wouldn't go to Heaven Print : Book'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
Howard R. Smith in the chair.
[...]
7. “Love Came In” by Beatrice Saxon-Snell was read with... Rosamund Wallis Francis Sladen-Smith The Man who wouldn't go to Heaven Print : Book'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
Howard R. Smith in the chair.
[...]
7. “Love Came In” by Beatrice Saxon-Snell was read with... Basil Smith Francis Sladen-Smith The Man who wouldn't go to Heaven Print : Book'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
Howard R. Smith in the chair.
[...]
7. “Love Came In” by Beatrice Saxon-Snell was read with... Sylvanus A. Reynolds Francis Sladen-Smith The Man who wouldn't go to Heaven Print : Book'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
Howard R. Smith in the chair.
[...]
7. “Love Came In” by Beatrice Saxon-Snell was read with... Elsie Harrod Francis Sladen-Smith The Man who wouldn't go to Heaven Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
Howard R. Smith in the chair.
[...]
7. “Love Came In” by Beatrice Saxon-Snell was read with... Howard Smith unknown [texts on 17th-century Quaker history, in particul... Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
Howard R. Smith in the chair.
1. Minutes of last meeting were read and signed.
2. The Secret... Bruce Dilks Margaret Dilks Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 8... Manuscript : Unknown, Notebook1900-1945 'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue 18th Sept, 1944
A. Bruce Dilks in the chair.
[...]
2. The minutes of the last meeting were read ... Margaret Dilks Margaret Dilks Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 8... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue 18th Sept, 1944
A. Bruce Dilks in the chair.
[...]
2. The minutes of the las... Alice Joselin Alice Joselin [biographical essay on William Blake] Manuscript : Unknown'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue 18th Sept, 1944
A. Bruce Dilks in the chair.
[...]
2. The minutes of the last meeting were read ... Alice Joselin unknown [biographical works on William Blake] Unknown 1900-1945 'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue 18th Sept, 1944
A. Bruce Dilks in the chair.
[...]
2. The minutes of the las... Alice Joselin Arthur Quiller-Couch [a short survey of William Blake] Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue 18th Sept, 1944
A. Bruce Dilks in the chair.
[...]
2. The minutes of the las... Francis E. Pollard Francis E. Pollard [on the literature of William Blake] Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue 18th Sept, 1944
A. Bruce Dilks in the chair.
[...]
2. The minutes of the las... Francis E. Pollard William Blake To the Evening Star Unknown 'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue 18th Sept, 1944
A. Bruce Dilks in the chair.
[...]
2. The minutes of the las... Francis E. Pollard William Blake To the Evening Star Unknown 1900-1945 'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue 18th Sept, 1944
A. Bruce Dilks in the chair.
[...]
2. The minutes of the las... Francis E. Pollard William Blake Memory, hither come Unknown 'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue 18th Sept, 1944
A. Bruce Dilks in the chair.
[...]
2. The minutes of the las... Francis E. Pollard William Blake Memory, hither come Unknown 1900-1945 'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue 18th Sept, 1944
A. Bruce Dilks in the chair.
[...]
2. The minutes of the las... Francis E. Pollard William Blake How sweet I roam'd from field to field Unknown 'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue 18th Sept, 1944
A. Bruce Dilks in the chair.
[...]
2. The minutes of the last meeting were read ... Francis E. Pollard William Blake How sweet I roam'd from field to field Unknown 1900-1945 'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue 18th Sept, 1944
A. Bruce Dilks in the chair.
[...]
2. The minutes of the last meeting were read ... Francis E. Pollard William Blake Jerusalem Unknown 1900-1945 'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue 18th Sept, 1944
A. Bruce Dilks in the chair.
[...]
2. The minutes of the last meeting were read ... George Goyder George Goyder [notes or script for a lecture on William Blake, i... Manuscript : Unknown'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue 18th Sept, 1944
A. Bruce Dilks in the chair.
[...]
2. The minutes of the last meeting were read ... Knox Taylor Margaret Dilks Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 1... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 'Meeting held at Grove House. 16th October 1944
J. Knox Taylor in the chair.
[...]
2. The minutes of the last meeting were read & si... Margaret Dilks Margaret Dilks Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 1... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 'Meeting held at Grove House. 16th October 1944
J. Knox Taylor in the chair.
[...]
2. The minutes of the last me... Howard Smith Howard Smith [a biographical sketch of Charles Dickens] Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at Grove House. 16th October 1944
J. Knox Taylor in the chair.
[...]
2. The minutes of the last me... Howard Smith unknown [biographical work[s] on Charles Dickens] Unknown 1900-1945 'Meeting held at Grove House. 16th October 1944
J. Knox Taylor in the chair.
[...]
2. The minutes of the last me... Muriel Stevens Charles Dickens David Copperfield Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at Grove House. 16th October 1944
J. Knox Taylor in the chair.
[...]
2. The minutes of the last me... Francis E. Pollard Francis E. Pollard [account of G. K. Chesterton's book on Charles Dic... Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at Grove House. 16th October 1944
J. Knox Taylor in the chair.
[...]
2. The minutes of the last me... Francis E. Pollard G. K. Chesterton Charles Dickens Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at Grove House. 16th October 1944
J. Knox Taylor in the chair.
[...]
2. The minutes of the last me... Francis E. Pollard G. K. Chesterton Charles Dickens Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at Grove House. 16th October 1944
J. Knox Taylor in the chair.
[...]
2. The minutes of the last me... [boys at Leighton Park School] Charles Dickens [unknown works] Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at Grove House. 16th October 1944
J. Knox Taylor in the chair.
[...]
2. The minutes of the last me... Arnold Joselin Charles Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at Grove House. 16th October 1944
J. Knox Taylor in the chair.
[...]
2. The minutes of the last me... Knox Taylor Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at Grove House. 16th October 1944
J. Knox Taylor in the chair.
[...]
2. The minutes of the last meeting were read & si... Arnold Joselin Margaret Dilks Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 1... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 'Meeting held at 7 Marlborough Avenue, 21.XI.44
A. G. Joselin in the chair.
[...]
2. The minutes of the last meeting were read and a... Margaret Dilks Margaret Dilks Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 1... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 'Meeting held at 7 Marlborough Avenue, 21.XI.44
A. G. Joselin in the chair.
[...]
2. The minutes of the last mee... [unnamed member[s] of the XII Book Club] Ralph Smith [letters] Manuscript : Letter1900-1945 'Meeting held at 7 Marlborough Avenue, 21.XI.44
A. G. Joselin in the chair.
[...]
2. The minutes of the last mee... [unnamed member[s] of the XII Book Club] [unnamed repatriated Prisoner of War] [letter giving news of Ralph Smith] Manuscript : Letter1900-1945 'Meeting held at 7 Marlborough Avenue, 21.XI.44
A. G. Joselin in the chair.
[...]
2. The minutes of the last mee... Knox Taylor Knox Taylor [a defence of vice] Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at 7 Marlborough Avenue, 21.XI.44
A. G. Joselin in the chair.
[...]
2. The minutes of the last mee... Elsie Harrod Elsie Harrod [on the housing question: proposing that no house ... Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at 7 Marlborough Avenue, 21.XI.44
A. G. Joselin in the chair.
[...]
2. The minutes of the last mee... Francis E. Pollard Francis E. Pollard [a defence of reason in an age of unreason] Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at 7 Marlborough Avenue, 21.XI.44
A. G. Joselin in the chair.
[...]
2. The minutes of the last meeting were read and a... Muriel Stevens Margaret Dilks Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 2... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 'Meeting held at Gower Cottage 16th December 1944
Muriel Stevens in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed.
... Margaret Dilks Margaret Dilks Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 2... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 'Meeting held at Gower Cottage 16th December 1944
Muriel Stevens in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & ... Bruce Dilks Bruce Dilks [Report on the finances of the XII Book Club, Dec ... Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at Gower Cottage 16th December 1944
Muriel Stevens in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & ... Howard Smith Max Beerbohm SOME DAMNABLE ERRORS ABOUT CHRISTMAS, G.K. CH*ST*R... Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at Gower Cottage 16th December 1944
Muriel Stevens in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed.
... Sylvanus A. Reynolds Margaret Dilks Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 1... Print : BookManuscript : Unknown, Notebook1700-1799 Pits said he had read Hurlothrumbo to some ladies till he was mad, and they were mad, and they were all mad; Strut commended the epilogue. Samuel 'Maggoty' Johnson Hurlothrumbo 1900-1945 'Meeting held at “Oakdene” Northcourt Avenue. 27th Jan. 1945. S. A. Reynolds in
the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed.
... Margaret Dilks Margaret Dilks Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 1... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 'Meeting held at “Oakdene” Northcourt Avenue. 27th Jan. 1945. S. A. Reynolds in
the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed.
... Muriel Stevens Mary Trevelyan From the Ends of the Earth Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at “Oakdene” Northcourt Avenue. 27th Jan. 1945. S. A. Reynolds in
the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed.
... Howard Smith Robert Gibbings Lovely is the Lee Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at “Oakdene” Northcourt Avenue. 27th Jan. 1945. S. A. Reynolds in
the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed.
... Mary S. Stansfield E. L. Woodward Short Journey Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at “Oakdene” Northcourt Avenue. 27th Jan. 1945. S. A. Reynolds in
the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed.
... Margaret Dilks Edith Olivier Night thoughts of a country landlady: being the pa... Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at “Oakdene” Northcourt Avenue. 27th Jan. 1945. S. A. Reynolds in
the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed.
... Bruce Dilks Rupert Thomas Gould The Stargazer Talks Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at “Oakdene” Northcourt Avenue. 27th Jan. 1945. S. A. Reynolds in
the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed.
... Howard Smith Rupert Thomas Gould Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 2... Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at “Frensham”, Northcourt Avenue, 21st Feb ’45
Howard R. Smith in the chair
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed. <... Margaret Dilks Margaret Dilks Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 2... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 'Meeting held at “Frensham”, Northcourt Avenue, 21st Feb ’45
Howard R. Smith in the chair
1. The minutes of the last meeting w... Howard Smith James Bridie Mr Bolfry: a play in four scenes Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at “Frensham”, Northcourt Avenue, 21st Feb ’45
Howard R. Smith in the chair
1. The minutes of the last meeting w... Cyril Langford James Bridie Mr Bolfry: a play in four scenes Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at “Frensham”, Northcourt Avenue, 21st Feb ’45
Howard R. Smith in the chair
1. The minutes of the last meeting w... A. Austin Miller James Bridie Mr Bolfry: a play in four scenes Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at “Frensham”, Northcourt Avenue, 21st Feb ’45
Howard R. Smith in the chair
1. The minutes of the last meeting w... Bruce Dilks James Bridie Mr Bolfry: a play in four scenes Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at “Frensham”, Northcourt Avenue, 21st Feb ’45
Howard R. Smith in the chair
1. The minutes of the last meeting w... Alice Joselin James Bridie Mr Bolfry: a play in four scenes Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at “Frensham”, Northcourt Avenue, 21st Feb ’45
Howard R. Smith in the chair
1. The minutes of the last meeting w... Muriel Stevens James Bridie Mr Bolfry: a play in four scenes Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at “Frensham”, Northcourt Avenue, 21st Feb ’45
Howard R. Smith in the chair
1. The minutes of the last meeting w... Francis E. Pollard James Bridie Mr Bolfry: a play in four scenes Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at “Frensham”, Northcourt Avenue, 21st Feb ’45
Howard R. Smith in the chair
1. The minutes of the last meeting w... Faith Miller James Bridie Mr Bolfry: a play in four scenes Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at “Frensham”, Northcourt Avenue, 21st Feb ’45
Howard R. Smith in the chair
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed. <... Francis E. Pollard Margaret Dilks Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 2... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, Northcourt Avenue, 25th April 1945
F. E. Pollard in the chair.
[...]
2. The minutes of the last m... Margaret Dilks Margaret Dilks Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 2... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, Northcourt Avenue, 25th April 1945
F. E. Pollard in the chair.
[...]
2. The m... Alice Joselin Alice Joselin [a biographical study of the Brontë family] Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, Northcourt Avenue, 25th April 1945
F. E. Pollard in the chair.
[...]
2. The m... Margaret Dilks Charlotte Brontë Villette Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, Northcourt Avenue, 25th April 1945
F. E. Pollard in the chair.
[...]
2. The m... Francis E. Pollard Francis E. Pollard [a critical essay on the Brontë sisters] Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, Northcourt Avenue, 25th April 1945
F. E. Pollard in the chair.
[...]
2. The m... Francis E. Pollard Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, Northcourt Avenue, 25th April 1945
F. E. Pollard in the chair.
[...]
2. The m... Francis E. Pollard Charlotte Brontë Shirley Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, Northcourt Avenue, 25th April 1945
F. E. Pollard in the chair.
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2. The m... several unnamed members of the XII Book Club Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, Northcourt Avenue, 25th April 1945
F. E. Pollard in the chair.
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2. The m... Howard Smith Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, Northcourt Avenue, 25th April 1945
F. E. Pollard in the chair.
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2. The m... Rosamund Wallis Charlotte Brontë Shirley Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, Northcourt Avenue, 25th April 1945
F. E. Pollard in the chair.
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2. The m... Howard Smith Emily and/or Anne Brontë The Gondal poems Unknown 1900-1945 'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, Northcourt Avenue, 25th April 1945
F. E. Pollard in the chair.
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2. The m... Cyril Langford unknown [a newspaper article on Wuthering Heights] Unknown 1900-1945 'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, Northcourt Avenue, 25th April 1945
F. E. Pollard in the chair.
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2. The m... Cyril Langford unknown [a newspaper article on Wuthering Heights] Unknown 1900-1945 'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, Northcourt Avenue, 25th April 1945
F. E. Pollard in the chair.
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2. The m... Cyril Langford Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, Northcourt Avenue, 25th April 1945
F. E. Pollard in the chair.
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5. Alice... Alice Joselin unknown [biographical texts on the Brontë family] Unknown 1900-1945 'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 28th May 1945
Elsie D. Harrod in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed.' Margaret Dilks Margaret Dilks Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 2... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 28th May 1945
Elsie D. Harrod in the chair.
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4. The subject of the eveni... Faith Miller Faith Miller [essay on John Ruskin: his life, his writings and ... Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 28th May 1945
Elsie D. Harrod in the chair.
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4. The subject of the eveni... Cyril Langford John Ruskin On the Nature of Gothic Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 28th May 1945
Elsie D. Harrod in the chair.
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4. The subject of the eveni... Cyril Langford R. H. Wilensky John Ruskin: An Introduction to further Study of h... Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 28th May 1945
Elsie D. Harrod in the chair.
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4. The subject of the eveni... Muriel Stevens Muriel Stevens [on Ruskin’s theories on art & artists] Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 28th May 1945
Elsie D. Harrod in the chair.
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4. The subject of the eveni... Muriel Stevens Pablo Picasso [on Cubism] Print : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 28th May 1945
Elsie D. Harrod in the chair.
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4. The subject of the eveni... Bruce Dilks Bruce Dilks [on John Ruskin’s ideas on political economy and s... Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 28th May 1945
Elsie D. Harrod in the chair.
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4. The subject of the eveni... Francis E. Pollard John Ruskin Sesame and Lilies Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 28th May 1945
Elsie D. Harrod in the chair.
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4. The subject of the evening was John Ruskin, ... Bruce Dilks Margaret Dilks Margaret Dilks, Minutes of the meeting of the XII ... Manuscript : Unknown, Notebook1900-1945 'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 9th. July 1945
A. Bruce Dilks in the chair
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2. The minutes of the last meeting were read &... Margaret Dilks Margaret Dilks Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 2... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 9th. July 1945
A. Bruce Dilks in the chair
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2. The minutes of the last meeting were read &... Margaret Dilks Victor Alexander [letter congratulating the XII Book Club on reachi... Manuscript : Letter1900-1945 'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 9th. July 1945
A. Bruce Dilks in the chair
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2. The minutes of the last meeting were read &... Rosamund Wallis Margaret Dilks Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 9... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 9th. July 1945
A. Bruce Dilks in the chair
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6. The rest of the evening... Bruce Dilks Bruce Dilks Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 9th. July 1945
A. Bruce Dilks in the chair
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6. The rest of the evening... Bruce Dilks Bruce Dilks, or another member of the XII Book Club [Brains Trust question on whether it should be a p... Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 9th. July 1945
A. Bruce Dilks in the chair
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6. The rest of the evening took the form of a ... Bruce Dilks Bruce Dilks, or another member of the XII Book Club [Brains Trust question on the proposition that hum... Manuscript : Unknown