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James Jeans : unknown

Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am in bed with the usual temperature [...] I moon torpidly through book after book: Defoe's Tour; Rowan's auto[biograph]y; Benson's Memoirs; Jeans; in the familiar way [...] Oh & I've read Q[ueen]. V[ictoria]'s letters [...] Q.V. entirely unaesthetic; a kind of Prussian competence, & belief in herself her only prominences [...] Knew her own mind. But the mind radically commonplace.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

James Jeans : The Universe Around Us

'Meeting held at Oakdene, 27. III. 1939
S. A. Reynolds in the chair.

[...]

2. Minutes of last read + approved.

3. A. B. Dilks read from Sir James Jeans’ ‘Universe around Us’. Man’s insignificance was not even tempered by the possibility of life on Mars.

4. Muriel Stevens brought us to more homely surroundings with passages from Eleanor Acland’s ‘Goodbye for the Present.’

5. Hilaire Belloc’s descriptive power was illustrated by R. H. Robson’s reading from ‘The Eyewitness’, telling of Napoleon’s pursuit of of Sir John Moore + a snow storm in the Sierras.

6. Ethel C. Stevens’s extract from Agnes Hunt’s Reminiscences dealt with experiences in the Tasmanian Bush.

7. R. D. L Moore read from T Jefferson Hogg – from a book published in 1833 – an account of Shelley at Oxford.

8. Dorothea Taylor gave us Taine’s impressions of England written in 1871.

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[signed] R. H. Robson
19. 5. 39'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Bruce Dilks      Print: Book

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