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AMICABLE CLUB, The.*****????  Mr [[T.P. Hill]] started with a series of “Novel [[Recital|Literary Entertainments]]” in the Commercial Exchange.  In 1848 he became the secretary of the “'''Amicable Club'''” and played a leading role in its recitation and literary studies. In June 1849 he once again gave regular presentations of “[[Hill's Literary Entertainments]]” in the Exchange. He recited from Shakespeare (Hamlet, Shylock, Mark Anthony, etc.), Dickens, Sheridan Knowles, and from other prose and verse writers. Hill continued these “Entertainments” until 1850, and left the Cape early 1851. His [[Recital|recitals]] had an enormous influence on the many amateur players in the Cape.]
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A musical and literary club in Cape Town, for which Mr [[T.P. Hill]] was the secretary in 1848-9, and where he took the lead in elocution and literary studies. In the Report[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=V9U7AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA3&lpg=RA2-PA3&dq=T.P.+Hill+Amicable+Club&source=bl&ots=UJ0EsEIAui&sig=q2fPnmKcb_5LdQtPgJ2u2f3irGQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=PGB2VbamIdSv7Abiz4KgDQ&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=T.P.%20Hill%20Amicable%20Club&f=false] of the subscribers meeting, it is recorded that he donated an amount of £4 11s 4d  to the Public Library of Cape Town in 1849, in his capacity as secretary, since the Amicable Club had apparently closed down.  
  
  
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== Sources ==
  
== Sources ==
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[[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928[http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/bosm012dram01_01_0032.php]: p440.
  
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Proceedings of the 11th to 34th  anniversary meetings of the subscribers of The Public Library, Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=V9U7AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA3&lpg=RA2-PA3&dq=T.P.+Hill+Amicable+Club&source=bl&ots=UJ0EsEIAui&sig=q2fPnmKcb_5LdQtPgJ2u2f3irGQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=PGB2VbamIdSv7Abiz4KgDQ&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=T.P.%20Hill%20Amicable%20Club&f=false]
  
 
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== For more information ==

Latest revision as of 13:03, 9 June 2015

A musical and literary club in Cape Town, for which Mr T.P. Hill was the secretary in 1848-9, and where he took the lead in elocution and literary studies. In the Report[1] of the subscribers meeting, it is recorded that he donated an amount of £4 11s 4d to the Public Library of Cape Town in 1849, in his capacity as secretary, since the Amicable Club had apparently closed down.


Sources

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928[2]: p440.

Proceedings of the 11th to 34th anniversary meetings of the subscribers of The Public Library, Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope[3]

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