Record Number: 30610
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Meeting held at 7 Marlborough Avenue 22/10/45
Arnold G. Joselin in the chair
1. The minutes of the previous meeting were read & signed.
[...]
3. Dr Taylor read from Kingdon Ward’s Modern Exploration giving us some idea of
the History of Exploration. Early man was immobile. Exploration has kept step
with Civilization. Exploration of the Earths surface is nearly finished, now we go
either up or down.
4. We adjourned for refreshment.
5. H. R. Smith read Smythe’s account of his singlehanded assault on the Everest
on the Everest summit.
6. Elsie Harrod from Gino Watkins by J M Scott first the description of suitable diet
for Greenland and second an account of travel over the Greenland Icecap. Very
Vivid.
7. Cyril Langford read from Hanno [half-emended, correctly, to ‘Hanno’] by J.
Leslie Mitchell on the ideas of what the earth is like deep beneath our feet. We got
a picture of a vast Hollow echoing caverns & great underground seas.
8. Thos Hopkins read extracts from Richard Bird [sic] in the Antarctic all alone
being slowly poisoned by Carbon Monoxide the fumes from his stove slowly
escaping a very introspective depressing story. Taking the evening as a whole it
was perhaps felt that there was rather a lot of physchology [sic] stirred into the
adventures.
[signed as a true record by] A. Austin Miller 28.XI.45 [at the club meeting held at
67 Eastern Avenue: see Minute Book, p. 44.]'
1900-1945
Date:22 Oct 1945
Country:England
Timeevening
Place:city: Reading
county: Berkshire
specific address: 7, Marlborough Avenue
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary reactive unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
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
Members of the XII Book Club
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Hanno, or, The future of exploration
Genre:Geography / Travel
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:30610
Source:Manuscript
Author:n/a
Title:XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 5 (1944-1952)
Location:private collection
Call No:n/a
Page/Folio:43–44
Additional Information:
Although Margaret Dilks was secretary to the XII Book Club from 1940 to 1970, and normally wrote the minutes, the handwriting shows clearly that she was not the author of this set.
Citation:
[An acting secretary of the XII Book Club] , XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 5 (1944-1952), private collection, 43–44, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=30610, accessed: 05 December 2024
Additional Comments:
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).