[extracts from seven unspecified prose writings]

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          <ptr target="ukred-30715">Meeting held at Frensham. 6th Oct. 1943
	Howard R. Smith in the chair. &lt;br/&gt;
1. Minutes of the last meeting were read &amp; approved. &lt;br/&gt;

[...] &lt;br/&gt;

5. Kenneth Nicholson discoursed to us on ‘Style’. He confessed that the more he 
had gone into the subject the further he had got out of his depth, but this fact was 
not apparent, for what he said was most interesting and illuminating. He gave as 
his four essentials for good style: Clarity, Rhythm, Sincerity and the Emergence of 
Personality. Kenneth Nicholson illustrated these qualities by quotations from such 
varied sources as: The Telephone Directory; an advertisement for Sanitas powder; 
the Dean of Harvard; Charles Morgan; Walter Pater; C. E. Montague; G. K 
Chesterton; H. G. Wells; T. E. Lawrence; a Leighton Park boy and a Press 
reporter. In the discussion which followed, some members thought that good style 
could be achieved without sincerity, and reference was made to the regrettable 
absence of clarity in legal documents and official forms. &lt;br/&gt;

6. F. E. Pollard then read 7 examples of prose writing and we were asked to write 
down the authors. It was only to be expected that Kenneth Nicholson, who had 
been studying the subject, should come out top with 5 right answers. [...] 
&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;

[signed as a true record by] A. B. Dilks
8.11.43. [at the club meeting held at 39 Eastern Avenue: see Minute Book, p. 165]
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