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Minutes 21 September, 5 October, 19 October, 2 November 1928
[Page 1] On Sept. 21st at the home of Mrs. Vowles we had our first meeting of the year. Mrs. Grey gave a most delightful talk on London of Shakespeare. Oct. 5th Mrs. Hamilton gave a most interesting paper on London of the Victorian Age. The meeting was held at the home of Mrs. Withers. Delightful refreshments were served. Oct. 19th Mrs. Douglas entertained the Club thoroughly. Miss Vinson reading the paper on London of the Present Nov. 2nd. An open meeting was held with Mrs. Arbuckle, Mrs. Black assisting. An unusually attractive program was presented. -
Minutes 22 November 1901
[Page 1] 1901 Club met Nov. 22nd with Mrs. Grey. Every member was present. Mrs. Martin reported an improvement in the morals of the Stage as noticed by good judges. Ernest Seton has dropped the Thompson from his name, added he says for a reason no longer operating. White tents will be substituted by some color less conspicuous. We don’t know what the poets will do about it. Carnegie says he has two hundred and eighty millions still for beneficence.Query - How many more secretaries will be need after this statement. The late Lt. Henry Chang was to China what Gladstone was to England & Bismark to Germany. The Pan American Council meeting in Mexico is said to be a great success. Clapp is waiting for the “Atlantic Monthly” on the drama-having recently made a hit with one of his own. Mary Johnson’s Serial is having a noticeable affect on the subscription list of the same. Mrs. Harrison showed the original Duchess of Marlboro in the Gainesboro hat -
Minutes 23 November 1906
[Page 1] Mrs. Smith was the next to entertain the Club & right royally did she do it. It is sur- prising what good meetings (those who are) first on the list get up in such a short time. Those of us who are among the last to entertain feel that we have as long to think about our meetings we needn’t begin yet & sad to relate we are often reminded of the old proverb, “Procras- tination is the thief if time.” But to return to the meeting on Nov. 23rd. Only two of our regular members were absent. We were glad to have as visitors Mrs. Edwards & Miss Graves. There was great demand for Items if inter- est by those who came without any & besought those with an over supply to divide. When the time came to give them they were all interesting as were Mrs. Currie’s Current Events. Mrs. Smith told the Club she would not deprive them of the pleasure of reading her book by dwelling on the life of -
Minutes 24 November 1905
[Page 1] Another star in the Book Club's firmament was the meeting held Nov. 24th with Mrs. Harrison. In answer to the roll call, the most “striking” item was given by Mrs. Black who spoke of a spanking machine used in some Western school. Mrs. Dupuy, with a sight for the good old days when “Mother’s slipper” was a sure cure regretfully spoke of the modern invention as a “soulless” machine. Mrs. Currie, though bodily absent was materially represented by a large collection of current events. Those present were shocked to learn that our statue of Liberty is taking advantage of her position by to inter- cepting wireless messages. We should scarce subject so base a purpose in one so lofty in position. It was with genuine pleasure and confident expectation of the best, [led] by the past experience, that the club turned it’s undivided attention to Mrs. Harrison, who introduced W.D. Howells as the gentleman under discussion for the afternoon. A novelist who ranks with - Henry James, Frank Norris, M.C. Wilkins-Freeman, all of the school of Realism. Miss Lois Neel, in a most interesting maneuver, put before us briefly the a sketch of his early years. First using the striking fact that Mr. Howells was -
Minutes 25 April 1930
[Page 1] 1929-30 Treas. Record May 1929 Amt given to Miss Vinson by Mrs. Harding. . . . . . . . . . . $14.34 May 1929 Check to Miss Shaw for Civic Library. . . . . . . . . . . . . .5.00 Sept. 4th Check to White Drug Co. for flowers for Mrs. Hamilton. . . . .5.00 Sept. Received from dues. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.00 Oct. 24th Paid Mrs. Hamilton for printing names of books. . . . . . . . .50 Oct 25 Received from dues. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.00 Oct. 25 Paid Mrs. Hood for picnic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.52 Nov. 8 Received from Dues. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50 On hand Dec. 6, 1929 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $10.82 March 14th Paid Miss Shaw for magazine for library . . . . . . . . . . 4.00 April 14th Paid Mrs. Bates for Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1.00 On hand April 25, 1930. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5.82 -
Minutes 25 January 1907
[Page 1] The Secretary regretted very much that she was unable to attend Mrs. Black’s meeting, Jan. 25, especially after hearing how pleas- antly everything passed off. Mrs. Richard Grey was asked to take notes of the meeting. This aft. she & the Secretary with the assistance (?) of three babies talked over what was said & done at the meeting. We lay all blame for any errors or mistakes upon these little, in- nocent heads. Ten members were present and one visitor, Mrs. Halliburton, whom we were glad to have with us again. In the absence of the Sec. the min. of the last meeting were read by Miss Dupuy, followed by the Items of Interest & Current Events, which Miss Holt gave. The book for the afternoon study was “The Awakening of Helena Richie” by Margaret Deland. Mrs. Black wrote to the author hoping to have an autograph letter from her but Mrs. Deland her private secretary answered stating that Mrs. Deland’s health was such she had been unable to even see her mail for several months. Mrs. Black told us that -
Minutes 25 October 1901
[Page 1] Minutes of the Book Club Winter of 1901-2 Book club met Oct. 25th at Mrs. Martin’s to elect new officers and also to choose books for the year. By ballot Mrs. Grey was made President- Mrs. Black Vice Pres. - Mrs. Dupuy Sec. First meeting under the new officers Nov. 13 at Mrs. Graham’s was for distribution of the books. There being a division of opinion as to the mode thereof. Mrs. Harrison-Chose- The Ruling Passion by Van Dyke and the other twelve woman-like shirking responsibility, drew by lot as follows Mrs Grey Blennerhasset. Miss Thompson-Heart of the Ancient Wood Miss Holt-Richard-Yea & Nay. Miss Withers-Sir Richard Calmandy Mrs. Martin-Lowell and His friends. Mrs. Black-The Day of his Youth. Miss. Neel-Wind and Wave. Miss Currie- Napolean. Mrs. Sloan-Tribulations of a Princess. Mrs. Dupuy-Some Women I have Known. Mrs. Smith – Truth Dexter Mrs.Graham-House of de Mailly On a motion from Mrs. Martin that two members be appointed at each meeting to report on current events. Mrs. Grey the Pres. chose Mrs. Harrison for Foreign and Miss. Holt for Domestic. though Mrs. Harrison thought her items would be unavoidably -
Minutes 26 October 1904
[Page 1] Minutes of Book Club 1904-5 The task of selecting our books seemed more than usually difficult this year. Three business meetings were held, & at last weary of the search for attractive books, the ladies turned the thankless job over to a committee who finally completed the list. In electing new officers the club wisely & promptly chose Miss Holt for Pres. And Miss Withers for V. Pres. It was decided best not to repeat last year’s experiment in the secretaryship, but to elect a permanent officer. This decision, quickly made was not so speedily executed. No one was willing to assume these duties. The office was shuttlecocked back & forth, twice refused outright, which unconstitutional proceeding was only allowed o new members, & finally rested on Mrs. Smith’s unhappy shoulders. It is evidently high time some special priv -
Minutes 27 March 1903
[Page 1] March 27th Every member responded to the roll call 27th of March at the house of Mrs. Sloan. This meeting had been anticipated with much interest and pleasure as its subject was Jacob A Riis and his book the Making of an American. Mrs. Sloan having just returned from N.Y. where she visited and investigated the scenes of Mr. Riis early struggles and subsequent improvement, (reforms), could speak with refreshing interest of the work he has done around the region of Mulberry Bend. Jacob Augustus Riis was born in Ribe, Denmark a delightfully quaint old Dutch town. From his earliest youth he seemed possessed with a zeal for reform. His first -
Minutes 28 April 1905
[Page 1] No pleasanter afternoon of the Club’s winter could have been furnished than the closing meeting held with Mrs. Price on April 28th. It was a night meeting & here we pause to breathe a sigh that this delightful time for club [cominality] has been ruled out for the future. The evening was mild, making the first thin dresses of early summer appropriate, & Mrs. Winson’s bright rooms never seemed more attractive than when we slipped in, a little late, to find the parlor & hall already comfortably filled with white-gowned femininity. The “rickety” minutes served as excellent foil for the current events which came this time from Miss Lois Neel. She al- ways does the past admirably. The items were full and particularly interesting. The book of the evening was Nancy Stair, by Elinor McCartney Lane, one -
Minutes 28 February 1902
[Page 1] 1902 Sickness and bad weather caused the omission of the meeting with Mrs. Smith February fourteenth. Nine ladies gathered with Miss Thompson February twenty eighth - four being detained at home by unavoidable circumstances. Mrs. Gray reported that the Edinburgh Review founded by Sidney Smith and Frances Jeffrey would celebrate its hundredth anniversary in April. Sousa the march man, has written a book: title “The Fifth String.” Of fifty thousand newspapers published in the world, twenty-nine thousand are by the English speaking races. Wireless telephony it is said will follow wireless telegraphy. “Heart of the Ancient Wood” was then taken up. The author Charles Roberts professor of English and French in King’s College Nova Scotia was born Jan. 10th 1860 in New Brunswick. Son of an Episcopal rector he has won two gold medals and written books on history, fiction and poetry -
Minutes 28 February 1903
[Page 1] Feb 28th For the second time in this series, a deluging and persistent rain prevented the assembly of the club members in the date appointed. The disappointment on Friday made keener the pleasure of meeting with Miss Julia Holt on Saturday the 28th. – For the first time this year, all the members were present. After hearing a pleasant round of items the President put the meeting in the hands of Miss Holt, who announced Frank Norris and his hook the Octopus, as the subject of the evening. Mrs. Graham first gave an outline if Frank Norris’s brief career. Born in Chicago, at an early age he moved to San -
Minutes 28 March 1904
[Page 1] Just across the street from the home in which we were meeting March 28th, a ball game was to be played; and if anyone, not a member of our Club, could have heard and not seen us they might have though ours s club of college girls, from the interest shown in the hour that the game was to be called. We were meeting an hour earlier than usual on that account. The day, too, was not Friday but Monday. Mrs. Sloan thought by taking a trip to N.Y., just at the time for her meeting, that hers would be omitted; but we wouldn’t let her off; we would have it and have it we did, much against her wishes! We understood when the meeting was over that all Mrs. Sloan had said, about lack of preparation, was said that she might surprise us with the good things she had in store. Of the items given at roll call we were especially interested in what Mrs. Graham told us of two paintings -
Minutes 28 November 1924
[Page 1] On the evening of November the twenty-eighth, the Book Lovers met with Mrs. Hood. Every lady enjoyed the lecture given by Mr. Richards on the Wileys. During the social hour which followed, such good refreshments were served – the kind Mrs. Hood always has. -
Minutes 29 February 1904
[Page 1] Our last meeting in February was called to order in Mrs. Martin’s hospitable parlor on Monday, the extra day of this leap year, the preceding Friday; our regular day, having been so inclement as to make a postponement advisable. Only eight members were present, tho our depleted ranks were most pleas antly filled by four guests, we still felt the loss of the absentees. The greatest gap was made by the absence of the secretar &; consequent lack of any minutes of the preceding meeting. Notwithstanding this loss & the Unavoidable omission of several other numbers on the program, our hostess proceeded as usual in making her meeting a delightful one. The unaccustomed secretary was -
Minutes 29 January 1904
[Page 1] Treading along on the beautiful snow members of the “Ladies Book Club” wended their way on Jan 29th, 1904 to the pleasant home of Mrs. Dupuy. The “minute member” being absent our hostess was called upon to read the minutes which added much to the pleasure of the occasion. The items of interest though not many for lack of members were none the less important and instructive. An item of great interest of us all was given by Mrs. Dupuy in which she spoke of “Dr. C. Alphonso Smith-of the English department of the University having added another service to the Commonwealth by his masterly defense of the expression “You all,” he says King Alfred used to say “You all” to people as far back as 901, and that Shakespeare and Col. Carter of Cartersville had the same idea in mind when they used the expression which is perfectly good English accord- -
Minutes 29 November 1904
[Page 1] November 29. For good & sufficient reasons, needless to enumerate, the meeting due on Nov. 25th, was omitted for the present. On the Tuesday following, Mrs. Harrison & Miss May Williams having the same book in their respected clubs, joined forces & gave to the united clubs a delightful meeting. Very few members of either were absent, several guests added pleasure to the occasion & the ladies filled cozily Mrs. Harrison’s bright parlor. The double roll call was long, as were the dual minutes, and the items of interest too numerous to mention, save one – a belated autograph letter from Chas. Wagner which Miss Holt had received, expressing appreciation of the club’s interest in him & his book. The meeting then passed into the hands of our hostess. The book claiming our attention was -
Minutes 3 January 1902
[Page 1] 1902 Club met Jan. 3rd with Mrs. Dupuy. She having exchanged evenings with Mrs. Martin by request. At the Charleston Exposition products of home silk manufacture are on exhibition woven before the Revolutionary War. Also some copies of the Columbia Register printed on silk. _____ of the present date showed small progresss in the silk industry. Vanderbilt bringing over from England a music teacher for his home in N.C.had to smuggle him in under a false name, as a cover, from a band resolved to intercept the “importer laborer” James Ephraim McGirt is added to the list of colored poets. Congress has appropriated one million of dollars for the Soldiers Home in Johnson City, Tenn. for both Union & Confederate soldiers. Thirty five buildings have been erected. Experimenters in Mich. Univ. have discovered a new specific against typhoid fever, dysentery and all intestinal diseases. B_______, by name, is to be used as vaccination -
Minutes 3 January 1903
[Page 1] Jan. 3rd 1903- For more reasons than one we might call this the Holiday number. Coming as it did in the holiday season and with the rest (Mrs. Dupuy, our hostess) gave us a rest from regular routine. In spite of recent festivities, which among the more dignified members took the form of hay-rides, peanut hunts and masquerades, there was considerable evidence of serious thought in the sprinkling of an “item” here and there. We do not hold ourselves answerable for the members who arrived too late to be called on, rather a suspicious circumstance. The book for the evening was the Master of Caxton by Hildegard Brooks. Our hostess had made most commendable efforts to gain information about the author with which to enlighten our ignorance -
Minutes 3 March 1905
[Page 1] March 3, 1905. The Club was called to order in Mrs. Currie’s parlor on Friday afternoon Mar. 3. The festivities of Junior speaking were in full blast but had no power to diminish our usual good attendance. The charm of our club there is none to dispute & the by-law which declares that “any member absent for three consecutive meetings without good excuse shall be dropped from the roll,” is merely an ornamental appendage. The mention of a A “Rose O’ the River” by Kate Douglas Wiggins awakened pleasant anticipations. Her girls are always wholesome, charming, genuine. Rose will doubtless be worthy of a place by Penelope and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. We are eager to know more of “The Marriage of William Ashe,” newly published. Carnegie’s generous offers of $500,000.00 to the Univ. of Va. is a cause of rejoicing to not to Va. alone but to the -
Minutes 3 March 1933
[Page 1] List of Books 1932-33 Mrs. Shewmake-----What We Live By Mrs. Watts--------The Sheltered Life Mrs. Vowles-------20,000 Years in Sing Sing Mrs. Cumming------In Search on Scotland Miss Douglas------Uncharted Seas Mrs. Black--------The Fountain Mrs. Douglas------Mozart Mrs. Withers------All Passions Spent Miss Thompson-----Saint Saturnin Mrs. Grey---------A World Can End Mrs. Harding------Thirty Years in the Golden North Mrs. Shaw---------Russia My Home Miss Johnston-----From Here to Yender Miss Vinson-------The Brownings Miss Young--------Answering Glory Mrs. W. L. Lingle-Unfinished Symphony Mrs. Hamilton-----The Garden Mrs. Michaels-----The Royal Flush Mrs. Y. W. Lingle-Portraits in Miniature Mrs. Hood---------Glastonbury Romance Mrs. Arbuckle-----Obscure Destinies -
Minutes 30 January 1903
[Page 1] January 30 - At no meeting in this series have all the members been present-the roll shows one absent each time and not more than two absent from any meeting. Mrs. Black was the absentee Jan. 30th when we met with Mrs. Grey. As the items were called for it because evident that the death of Julian Ralph of the N.Y. Sun was considered the most important event of the day. He is worthily notable for his brilliant reports of the African war. It is thought that his death is a result of exposure and fatigue necessary of the service he rendered. Another interesting fact was the proposed use of peat as fuel in the U.S. Large quantities are found in Indiana and can be -
Minutes 30 March 1906
[Page 1] The sun shone upon the Book Club upon the afternoon of March 30th, as ten members and two guests assembled with Mrs. Currie. Our visitors were Mrs. Kirkpatrick and Miss Louise Dupuy the and the Club would be glad to welcome Miss Dupuy to our circle next year as a regular member. Our hostess, Mrs. Currie, had announced to me from time to time, that as she could discover nothing concerning her author, we would have a scanty program at her meeting. Our Club has learned to anticipate an unusually pleasant hour when our perturbed hostess informs us thus ahead of time, and so we were found it on this occasion. The news items were fresh and well chosen to begin with, and the Current Events interesting and instructive. Our book under consideration was The “Wood-Carver of Olympus,” by Mrs. W. E. Waller, author also of “A Daughter of the Rich.” The book has been almost met -
Minutes 31 January 1902
[Page 1] 1902 Jan. 31st, the Secretary, arriving late, found the ladies already seated around Mrs. Sloan’s pleasant sitting room. As a substitute for our only absent member, the President brought Miss Daniel a welcome visitor. In response to roll call Mrs. Grey gave some of the eccentricities of authors- Victor Hugo is reported to compose while walking, a modern Peripatetic . Mrs. Black gave a review of “Richard Yea and Nay” by Wm. Moody who considers the imagination of the author suggestive of Shakespears tho lacking in art sense and human touch. Miss Whithers on current events noted two changes in the Cabinet. Shaw as Treasurer and Payne as new Post Master General. Danish West Indies bought by the U.S. lately for five millions of dollars has a valuable port St. Lucian used as a coaling station by the increased number of trading and other vessels plying between the United States and the far East. Attention was called to Uncle Sam’s care in his money-making: each bill being counted sixty three -
Minutes 31 March 1905
[Page 1] March 31 - Our meeting on March 31st with Mrs. C.L. Grey showed a divergence from our accustomed program, which can by no means be taken as an explanation of the very pleasant evening afforded. The book for the day was “Wayfarers in Italy” by Catherine Hooker. Information regarding its author was meagre. We know little more than that she is a New Englander by birth, tho for most of her life a resident of California, is fond of travel, a book lover, and to a degree, writer. The Wayfarers in Italy are herself & daughter. In discussing a country so notably the home of Sculpture & painting, it was only natural that our interest should centre in some of the sons who have contributed most to her wealth in treasures of art.