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<p> Alfred Rawlings in the Chair</p>
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review of “We were Seven” which he had previously written for the Bootham Magazine.</p>
<br/>
<p>3. Helen Rawlings read several of Harvey’s poems from the volume “Laughter and Ghosts[”].</p>
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<p>4. Elizabeth T. Alexander read a chapter from “Caprimulgus”.</p>
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<p>5. Frank Pollard read “August Heat” from Midnight House.</p>
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<p>6. Janet Rawlings read “Patience” from Quaker Byways.</p>
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<p>7. Charles E. Stansfield read two more poems from “Laughter and Ghosts”</p>
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<p>8. Howard R. Smith read “The Tortoise” from Midnight House.</p>
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