Record Number: 30727

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Meeting held at Gower Cottage. 2nd. Dec. 1943 Muriel Stevens in the chair.
1. Minutes of last meeting read & signed.
2. The treasurer reported on the club’s finances. No accounts were presented for inspection, indeed the only member near enough to the treasurer to get a glimpse of his A/C book protested that the figures read out in no way corresponded to those written down. Amid a good deal of flippant comment a balance in hand of 6/3 was revealed. A vote of confidence in the treasurer was moved and his report accepted.
[...]
5. After a refreshing interval we proceeded to the ever more difficult task of selecting books for this year’s reading. The Committee [Knox Taylor, Muriel Stevens and Rosamund Wallis – see minutes of the meeting held 6 October, XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 4, p. 162] had gone to a good deal of trouble in order to put before us a list of books which it was possible to get. However, these did not meet with very general approval, so we proceeded to vote on the list of much more interesting books many of which the committee had ascertained were already out of print & unobtainable. [...]

[signed as a true record by] Arnold G. Joselin 15th Jan. 1944 [at the club meeting held at 7, Marlborough Avenue: see XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 5 (1944-1952), p. 0 – i.e. the page before the first numbered page]

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

15 Jan 1944

Country:

England

Time

evening

Place:

city: Reading
county: Berkshire
specific address: 7, Marlborough 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:

Arnold Joselin

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

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 2 Dec 1943

Genre:

Minutes

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Notebook

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

reading group

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Source Information:

Record ID:

30727

Source:

Manuscript

Author:

Margaret Dilks

Title:

XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 4 (1938-1943)

Location:

private collection

Call No:

n/a

Page/Folio:

168–170

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. 4 (1938-1943), private collection, 168–170, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=30727, accessed: 13 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.
Source 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).