Bolton group addresses and talks

Scope and Content

This sub-class contains typescript copies of addresses and printed reports of talks made by members of the Bolton group, on the subject of other members, the activities of the Bolton group, and Whitman's work. Includes: a talk by J.W. Wallace for the Whitman birthday celebration of 1925, 'If Walt Whitman Came to Walker Fold' [Walker Fold was the home of group member, John Ormrod]; 'An Old Friend', a talk on J.W. Wallace, given by Wentworth Dixon to the Mens' Class at Bank Street School, Bolton, 7 Feb 1926; 'An Address in Memory of the late J.W. Wallace, Wentworth Dixon and Dr J. Johnston', by William Broadhurst, 6 Dec 1930; a news cutting dated 9 Apr 1938 giving a transcript of a paper by Sixsmith to the Lancashire Authors' Association on 'The Lancashire friends of Walt Whitman'; and an undated cutting reporting on Sixsmith's paper on Whitman given to the Horwich and District Literary Society.