The Story of the River [Thames]

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          <ptr target="ukred-31822">"Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 20.II.’39&lt;br/&gt;
	R. D. L. Moore, &amp; subsequently H. Stevens in the Chair.&lt;br/&gt;
1. Minutes of last read &amp; approved.&lt;br/&gt;
[...]&lt;br/&gt;
5. R. H. Robson told of The Stately Homes of Thames, + we heard of Bisham 
Abbey, Mapledurham, Ufton Court, of Jesuits hunted by Walsingham, of the 
incident of The Rape of the Lock, of Lovelace, Lady Place, Hurley, and Soames 
Forsyte.&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
6. H. R. Smith, dealing with the Story of the River, + passing lightly over the 
Danish incursions upstream, spoke of the thousand years in which the Thames had 
been in bounds. Weirs had been made by millers, navigation had been slow and 
perilous, the modern lock was a matter of the last hundred + fifty years. Twenty-
six mills were named in Domesday Book[.] The Thames Conservancy had brought 
order out of chaos.&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
[...]&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
8. S. A. Reynolds read from Mortimer Menpes of warehouses + houseboats, the 
boat race + Henley Regatta, Kingfishers + quick backwaters, fishing + the 
vagaries of the towpath.&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
9. R. D. L. Moore gave us Literary Gleanings, touching on Spenser and Shelley, 
quoting from The Scholar Gypsy + Thyrsis, + reading Soames Forsyte’s thoughts 
in the early morning on the river, Kipling’s The River’s Tale, + Virginia Woolf’s 
astonishing account in Orlando of the great frost, when a girl dissolved into 
powder + fish were frozen twenty fathoms deep!&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
[...]&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
11. Muriel Stevens read a friend’s notes on Deptford + its river scenes.&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
12. A. B. Dilkes from Three Men in a Boat.&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;[Signed] S A Reynolds&lt;br/&gt;	27/3/93 [i.e. 27/3/39]"</ptr>
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