Category: History - Modern (1750+)

Preliminary Announcement & List of Members Society for Pure English, Tract 01 (1919)

The Society was founded in 1913, and was preparing to enter on its activities, when the declaration of war in Aug. 1914 determined the Committee to suspend proceedings until the national distraction should have abated. They met again after the Armistice in 1918 and agreed to a...