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Vita Sackville West : The Land

'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 10.2.41 A. B. Dilks in the chair
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.
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4. The subject for this evening was “Winter – in Poetry & Prose”. [...]
The programme was as follows:
Dickens – extract from “A Christmas Carol” read by R. D. L. Moore
Hardy – “The Mellstock Carols” from ‘Under the Greeenwood Tree’ read by Mrs. H. R. [Edith] Smith
Shakespeare – “Blow, blow thou winter wind” sung by F. E. Pollard
V. Sackville West – extract from a poem “The Land” read by Margaret Dilks
H. M. Wallis – Account of the Blizzard of 1881 read by Howard Smith
Dickens – The Pickwick Club on the Ice read by A. B. Dilks
Mendelssohn – The Hebrides overture played by Beecham & the L.P.O. (on gramophone records)'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Dilks      Print: Book

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