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Justin McCarthy : A History of our Own Times

'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 24. III 37
    F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
3. Disraeli: Dorothy Brain read extracts from letters to his sister.
4. S. A. Reynolds sketched Disraeli’s political life as far as the 60’s. with passages from McCarthy’s History of our Own Times.
5. Celia Burrow read from [André] Maurois of D’s domestic and married life.
6. After a brief statement from F. E. Pollard of D’s Chief works, H. R. Smith read from Tancred.
7. F. E. P. read a paper kindly contributed by H. M. Wallis, dealing with D’s relations with Gladstone, Salisbury & Queen Victoria, & telling of the contrasted Gartering of Disraeli & Salisbury after their return from Berlin in 1878.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Sylvanus A. Reynolds      Print: Book

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