Record Number: 30583

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 9th. July 1945
    A. Bruce Dilks in the chair

[...]

2. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed.

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4. A letter was read from our late Secretary Victor Alexander congratulating the Club on reaching its 50th birthday and recalling some of its more distinguished past members.

[...]

6. The rest of the evening took the form of a Brains Trust, with Bruce Dilks as question master and all the members providing the brains. [...]

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    [signed as a true record by] Rosamund Wallis 24. 9. ’45. [at the club meeting held at 64 Northcourt Avenue: see Minute Book, p. 41.]'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

24 Sep 1945

Country:

England

Time

evening

Place:

city: Reading
county: Berkshire
specific address: 64, Northcourt Avenue

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Rosamund Wallis

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

Quaker or associated with the Friends

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Margaret Dilks

Title:

Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 9 Jul 1945

Genre:

Minutes

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Notebook

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

reading group

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Source Information:

Record ID:

30583

Source:

Manuscript

Author:

Margaret Dilks

Title:

XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 5 (1944-1952)

Location:

private collection

Call No:

n/a

Page/Folio:

37–40

Additional Information:

Margaret Dilks was secretary to the XII Book Club from 1940 to 1970. It is inferred from this, and from the handwriting, that she was the author of this set of minutes.

Citation:

Margaret Dilks, XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 5 (1944-1952), private collection, 37–40, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=30583, accessed: 22 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

This is the reading, possibly brief and cursory, implied by the Chair's act of signing the minutes. It probably followed immediately after listening to the public reading of the minutes by the Secretary.
Material by kind permission of the XII Book Club. For further information and permission to quote this source, contact the Reading Experience Database (http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/contacts.php).