Item 14 - Letter from Geoffrey Keynes to R. B. McKerrow

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St Bartholomew’s Hospital or 38 Brunswick Square, London, W.C.—Thanks him for the news of his (Keynes’s) election to the Bibliographical Society.

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St Bartholomew’s Hospital, E.C.
38 Brunswick Square, London, W.C. {1}
5 December 1913

Dear Sir,

I am much obliged to you for your letter informing me that I have been elected a Candidate-Member of the Bibliographical Society. {2}

I enclose a cheque for 1 guinea, being my subscription for 1914

Yours faithfully
Geoffrey Keynes

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{1} Two addresses are printed at the head.

{2} ‘At its Annual Meeting in January, 1914, the Bibliographical Society resolved to re-open its Roll of Membership (to which for twenty years admission had only been obtainable as vacancies occurred), and for the rest of the twelvemonth to admit any suitable candidates who presented themselves.’ (The Library, 3rd series, x. 64.) Keynes was one of fourteen candidate-members elected by the Society’s Council on 1 December 1913. The others included Sidney Hodgson, the book auctioneer, Caroline Spurgeon, Humphrey Milford, and E. H. Dring of Quaritch. (Ex inf. Robin Myers, honorary archivist of the Bibliographical Society.)