The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

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          <ptr target="ukred-31877">"Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue: 24. 11. 39.&lt;br/&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;A Bruce Dilks in the chair. &lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
1. Minutes of last [two meetings] read &amp; approved. &lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
[...] &lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
7. F. E. Pollard gave a brief introduction to American literature, introducing a large 
number of names including Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman, Tom Paine, 
Washington Irving, Fennimore Cooper, the poet Bryant, the historians Bancroft, 
Prescott and Motley, Louisa M. Alcott, Emerson, Longfellow &amp; Whittier, Nathaniel 
Hawthorne, Edgar Allen Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Thoreau, Harriet Beecher 
Stowe, Hermann Dick, J. R. Lowell, Walt Whitman, Henry Hames, Winston 
Churchill, O. Henry, &amp; Mark Twain. He attempted very briefly to assess the place 
of these &amp; some others. &lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
8. C. E. Stansfield read from the Autocrat at the Breakfast Table an extract in 
praise of Meerschaums, Violins &amp; Poems. We felt from the caressing tones of his 
voice that like the Autocrat he gave pride of place to the Meerschaums. &lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
9. A. B. Dilks, after a brief reference to the career and mystical experience of 
Walt Whitman read from his Poems on the Sea. &lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
10. R. D. L. Moore read a dramatic passage from the ‘Bridge of San Luis Rey[’], 
describing the last hours of Brother Juniper. &lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
11 We were, finally, introduced to Babbitt – those of us who had not previously 
met him &amp;mdash; by R. H. Robson. We were suitably amused at the manner in which 
St.Clair Lewis makes his hero rise and shave. &lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
 &lt;br/&gt;[signed] R. D. L. Moore&lt;br/&gt;
19.XII.39"</ptr>
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