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Janet Rawlings (and Elizabeth and Victor Alexander) : [a greetings card]

Meeting held at 22, Cintra Avenue. 17th Sept. 1942 F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. A card of greetings was read from Janet Rawlings, Beth and Victor Alexander.
2. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed.
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5. Howard Smith introduced the subject of Coleridge by telling us something of his life and character. It was a sad story of real genius & ability frustrated & unfulfilled by an entire lack of the powers of application and concentration, of a brilliant conversationalist, a nature generous & affectionate, and a man extremely fortunate in his friends. F. E Pollard spoke briefly of Coleridge’s poetical importance & of some of the sources of his ideas and images – sources not always acknowledge[d]. And readings from his poetry were then given as follows:-
Parts of The Ancient Mariner read by AB. Dilks
Part I of Christabel [read by] J. K. Taylor
Kubla Khan [read by] Margaret Dilks
The Devils Thoughts [read by] Isabel Taylor
Hymn before Sunrise in the Vale of Chamouny [read by] S. A. Reynolds

[signed at the meeting held 17 September 1942 by] L Dorothea Taylor

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Dilks      Manuscript: postcard

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