Excerpt from A Partial (and Not Impartial) Semi-Centennial History of the Tavern Club, 1884-1934 The sources from which this book has been drawn might have yielded a far larger volume; and under another hand a different book might well have come into being. Those sources are chiefly the five large scrap-books in which successive secretaries have pre served the memorabilia of the Club; the annual reports of one secretary after another; the memoirs of former members, now for many years read at the annual meet ings; the ...
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Excerpt from A Partial (and Not Impartial) Semi-Centennial History of the Tavern Club, 1884-1934 The sources from which this book has been drawn might have yielded a far larger volume; and under another hand a different book might well have come into being. Those sources are chiefly the five large scrap-books in which successive secretaries have pre served the memorabilia of the Club; the annual reports of one secretary after another; the memoirs of former members, now for many years read at the annual meet ings; the reminiscences, written and spoken, of older members of the Club; and, in particular, the recollec tions of Francis S. Watson and of others solicited by him about twenty years ago when he foresaw the day when some such book as this would be wanted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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