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On behalf of my Committee, I have pleasure in enclosing particulars of the Authors' Club of London.
So many applications for election from writers of distinction have lately been received, that the total membership is now approaching 1,200. You may therefore desire to have your name included before the limit is reached and the new list, shortly to be published, is issued.
The Club, as you will perceive, serves not only as an important rallying centre in the literary world but is
It is customary, moreover, with the Authors' to mail regularly to each "Oversea" member the best newspaper account of all "Monday Night Discussions" so that individual members are kept in close touch regarding matters of mutual interest.tt
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Should you wish to join, please fill in the "Form of Application" at the beginning of the pamphlet and return the paper to me not later than November 1st. Before election your name would have to be displayed on the Candidate List for a fortnight.
To save unnecessary correspondence, it is customary for "Oversea" candidates to enclose, with their application, a remittance for the first year's dues (viz., £2 2s. English money, i.e. $10.50). This would defray your obligations—if you were elected towards the end of the present year—until December 31, 1911, and the subscription would afterwards be $5.25 annually.