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Agnes Gwendoline Hunt : Reminiscences

'Meeting held at Oakdene, 27. III. 1939
S. A. Reynolds in the chair.

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2. Minutes of last read + approved.

3. A. B. Dilks read from Sir James Jeans’ ‘Universe around Us’. Man’s insignificance was not even tempered by the possibility of life on Mars.

4. Muriel Stevens brought us to more homely surroundings with passages from Eleanor Acland’s ‘Goodbye for the Present.’

5. Hilaire Belloc’s descriptive power was illustrated by R. H. Robson’s reading from ‘The Eyewitness’, telling of Napoleon’s pursuit of of Sir John Moore + a snow storm in the Sierras.

6. Ethel C. Stevens’s extract from Agnes Hunt’s Reminiscences dealt with experiences in the Tasmanian Bush.

7. R. D. L Moore read from T Jefferson Hogg – from a book published in 1833 – an account of Shelley at Oxford.

8. Dorothea Taylor gave us Taine’s impressions of England written in 1871.

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[signed] R. H. Robson
19. 5. 39'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ethel C. Stevens      Print: Book

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