Sirène

rif. 23364 — Oxford 12 June 1956. 8pp. including card covers 12mo some damp- staining not interfering with text faint foxing. Verso of front cover signed: "Stephen Spender" and "Wystan Auden" with the signatures of seven others presumably the undergraduate members whose guests Auden and Spender were. The printed text includes lines from Keats p.1 concluding with "the Mermaid Tavern" the menu p.2 Avocado Pear Tournedos Monaco Seagull' Eggs etc a page entitled "Expositor" with the application of quotes from literature to the various courses Tournedos Monaco; "If it were done when 'tis done then 'twere well" final page the Toasts including 'Souls of Poets Dead and Gone'. Note: Bodleian Catalogue entry for the Papers and Minutes of the Club "The Oxford University Mermaid Club was a small undergraduate society founded in 1902 for reading 16th- and 17th-century English drama. The Club went into abeyance during both World Wars and was 'revived' at various dates." Oxford, 12 June 1956. unknown