Record Number: 31657

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Meeting held at 22, Cintra Avenue, 16th December 1941 F. E. Pollard in the Chair.
Before beginning our meeting the Chairman referred to the loss the Club has sustained through the death of Henry Marriage Wallis. [...]
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.
2. The Treasurer reported on the Club’s financial position showing a balance in hand of 16s. 8d. After a searching enquirey [sic] into the payment of subscriptions, Janet Rawlings was revealed as the sole defaulter, and with the extraction from her of a promise to make good, the accounts were passed as correct.
[...]
5. After an interval for refreshment, Howard Smith read us a most interesting account of how a section of the Friends Ambulance Unit came to be left behind in Greece and what happened to them there. Also some letters from Ralph Smith written from Salonika, and also from a prison camp in Germany to which he was later transferred.

[signed as a correct record:] J. Knox Taylor
27/1/42'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

16 Dec 1941

Country:

England

Time

evening

Place:

city: Reading
county: Berkshire
specific address: 22, Cintra Avenue

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary reactive unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Howard Smith

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1880

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

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Ralph Smith

Title:

[Letters written from Salonika]

Genre:

Letters

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Letter

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

31657

Source:

Manuscript

Author:

Margaret Dilks

Title:

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

Location:

private collection

Call No:

n/a

Page/Folio:

106–9

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, 106–9, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=31657, accessed: 14 May 2024

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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).