Meeting held at School House, L. P. : 13.9.35
Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
2. Account of the Excursion, contributed by R. H. Robson, read and approved.
[...]
7. We then listened to a number of extracts from books read during the summer.
Rosamund Wallis gave us some descriptive passages from Illyrian Spring by Ann Bridge, dealing
with the Dalmation [sic] coast, and a happy scene with a monk and marketwomen in a bus.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamund Wallis Print: Book
'Meeting held at Frensham, Northcourt Avenue. 13th Sept. 1940
Howard R. Smith in the Chair.
[...]
7. F. E. Pollard commenced the main business of the evening. This was to consist
of readings of passages from books we had read during the year. F. E. was sorry
but he was afraid he had read nothing recently which was intellectually suitable for
the Club. (Cheers) He would however read from The Mill on the Floss. This proved
to be a diverting dissertation on the Commercial Traveller who seems to have
altered little since George Eliot’s day except in the article for sale for vacuum
cleaners were conspicuous by their absence.
8. “The Seven Chars of Chelsea” by Celia Fremlin was the choice of Dorothea
Taylor who warned us that it was an impalatable book. She must have read from
the more tasty portions for we were entertained by the Margretian Charic
conversation conversation which took place among the other six when the author
joined their ranks and by the description of a very tasty cup of tea. Dr Taylor
finished with a more serious passage on the difficulty of mistress and maid
belonging to two completely different worlds.
9. Muriel Stevens read us a descriptive passage from “The Countryman”. We found
that one should live in Corsica to appreciate the punctuality of our G.P.O.
10. Our adventurous evening took an astronomical turn while we heard from
Howard Smith of the Herschels at Slough, their 40 foot telescope and the
discovery of the planet Uranus. This was from Cecil Robert’s book “And so to
Bath.”
11. Violet Clough then brought us nearer home by way of China in several extracts
from “Four Part Setting” by Ann Bridges.
12. A. B. Dilks recommended us to read some or all of The Bases of Modern
Science by J. W. W. Sullivan, published in the Pelican Series at 6d.
13. Rosamund Wallis found her bookmark more interesting than her book and read
us an entertaining but pathetic letter from a refugee now in New York. His subject
was the interesting one of the R[h]ythm of Glass Washing in [an] American Hotel.
[signed by:] R. D. L. Moore
Oct. 18. 1940.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Violet Clough Print: Book
'Meeting held at Frensham, Northcourt Avenue. 13th Sept. 1940
Howard R. Smith in the Chair.
[...]
7. F. E. Pollard commenced the main business of the evening. This was to consist
of readings of passages from books we had read during the year. F. E. was sorry
but he was afraid he had read nothing recently which was intellectually suitable for
the Club. (Cheers) He would however read from The Mill on the Floss. This proved
to be a diverting dissertation on the Commercial Traveller who seems to have
altered little since George Eliot’s day except in the article for sale for vacuum
cleaners were conspicuous by their absence.
8. “The Seven Chars of Chelsea” by Celia Fremlin was the choice of Dorothea
Taylor who warned us that it was an impalatable book. She must have read from
the more tasty portions for we were entertained by the Margretian Charic
conversation conversation which took place among the other six when the author
joined their ranks and by the description of a very tasty cup of tea. Dr Taylor
finished with a more serious passage on the difficulty of mistress and maid
belonging to two completely different worlds.
9. Muriel Stevens read us a descriptive passage from “The Countryman”. We found
that one should live in Corsica to appreciate the punctuality of our G.P.O.
10. Our adventurous evening took an astronomical turn while we heard from
Howard Smith of the Herschels at Slough, their 40 foot telescope and the
discovery of the planet Uranus. This was from Cecil Robert’s book “And so to
Bath.”
11. Violet Clough then brought us nearer home by way of China in several extracts
from “Four Part Setting” by Ann Bridges.
12. A. B. Dilks recommended us to read some or all of The Bases of Modern
Science by J. W. W. Sullivan, published in the Pelican Series at 6d.
13. Rosamund Wallis found her bookmark more interesting than her book and read
us an entertaining but pathetic letter from a refugee now in New York. His subject
was the interesting one of the R[h]ythm of Glass Washing in an American Hotel.
[signed by:] R. D. L. Moore
Oct. 18. 1940.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Violet Clough Print: Book
