'Meeting held at Hilliers, Northcourt Avenue. 26. ii. 40Meeting held at Hilliers, Northcourt Avenue. 26. ii. 40. Rosamund Walis in the Chair 1. Minutes of last read + approved 2. Minute 7 of 19th Dec. � relating to the accounts � was continued [...] 5. The subject of letters was introduced by Roger Moore, and led to a desultory but amusing discussion ranging from the Pastons to modern family letters and scurrilous blackmailing letters. [...] 7. Margaret Dilkes read from Lord Chesterfield�s letters to his son. 8. Ethel Stevens read letters which she had cut out of the papers from time to time, notably one from a child of thirteen to John Ruskin. 9. H. R. Smith read some four or five short letters from E. V. Lucas, �The Second Post.� 10. Mary Pollard read Pliny�s account of the Eruption of Vesuvius. 11. Roger Moore read some of Keats�s letters which were much enjoyed, and a Keats evening was suggested for some future meeting. [signed as a true record:] S A Reynolds 18/3/40'
