Pickwick Club
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While the Pickwick Club itself was dissolved as noted in Charles Dickens' history of the club The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, the Corresponding Society of the Pickwick Club lives on. Membership is open to all gentlemen (and gentlewomen) of goodwill who:
- Are curious about the world around them, whether it be the next block, the next town, or a distant continent
- Are willing to record their adventures, observations, and discoveries
- Are willing to write to the Society from time to time of the same
- And, most importantly, agree with the principle of defraying their own costs, expenses, and postage
Any such person is entitled to add the initials MPC (Member of the Pickwick Club) to their name.
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Charter of the Corresponding Society of the Pickwick Club
'That, with the view just mentioned, this Association has taken into its serious consideration a proposal, emanating from the aforesaid, Samuel Pickwick, Esq., G.C.M.P.C., and three other Pickwickians hereinafter named, for forming a new branch of United Pickwickians, under the title of The Corresponding Society of the Pickwick Club.
'That the said proposal has received the sanction and approval of this Association. 'That the Corresponding Society of the Pickwick Club is therefore hereby constituted; and that Samuel Pickwick, Esq., G.C.M.P.C., Tracy Tupman, Esq., M.P.C., Augustus Snodgrass, Esq., M.P.C., and Nathaniel Winkle, Esq., M.P.C., are hereby nominated and appointed members of the same; and that they be requested to forward, from time to time, authenticated accounts of their journeys and investigations, of their observations of character and manners, and of the whole of their adventures, together with all tales and papers to which local scenery or associations may give rise, to the Pickwick Club, stationed in London.
'That this Association cordially recognises the principle of every member of the Corresponding Society defraying his own travelling expenses; and that it sees no objection whatever to the members of the said society pursuing their inquiries for any length of time they please, upon the same terms.
'That the members of the aforesaid Corresponding Society be, and are hereby informed, that their proposal to pay the postage of their letters, and the carriage of their parcels, has been deliberated upon by this Association: that this Association considers such proposal worthy of the great minds from which it emanated, and that it hereby signifies its perfect acquiescence therein.'
- From the meeting minutes of the Pickwick Club, May 12, 1827.[1]
Contact/Join
- The Corresponding Society of the Pickwick Club
See also
- Seattle Geographic Society
Sources
- ↑ Dickens, Charles. The Pickwick Papers. New York: New American Library, 1964. pages 23-25
