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Frederick Hamilton : The Vanished Pomps of Yesterday: Being some random reminiscences of a British diplomat

'Meeting held at School House 31st May 1941
R. D. L. Moore in the chair

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.

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3. The Chairman read a letter of greetings and regret for her absence from Janet Rawlings in which she suggested “Modern Poetry” as a possible subject for one of our meetings.

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5. The Subject of the meeting was “Autobiography” & it proved a very varied and interesting one. Readings were given as follows:
1) My Life of Music by Sir Henry J. Wood     read by A. B. Dilks
2) My days of strength by Dr. Anne Fearn     read by S. A. Reynolds
Autobiography by John Stuart Mill     read by F. E. Pollard
Vanished Pomps of Yesterday by Lord Frederick Hamilton
    read by Rosamund Wallis
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
    read by Arnold Joselin.
A Great Experiment by Lord Robert Cecil
    read by J. Knox Taylor.

[signed as a true record] AB Dilks'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamund Wallis      Print: Book

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