"there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour"
Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol
Friday Sept 12th 2pm
1pm for cocktails
This will be a Black-Tie Event that our Pickwickian Brethren are billing
as the "Frolic of All Frolics"! The Gala will be the culmination of a
series of events to take place during the week leading up to this Friday
night dinner.
It is designed to provide information for both members and interested guests alike. For those interested in perhaps visiting with us, please enter information in a contact us form found in the top menu.
We meet three times a year at Cavanaugh's in Headhouse Square in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Pickwick Club is just one of many Pickwick Clubs found around the world. They meet both in celebration of the great Charles Dickens as well as in celebration of life itself. As Dickens said in A Christmas Carol "there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.."
A Pickwick meeting generally involves copious amounts of good food, good drink and good humour.Wit and repartee are the order of the day. Meetings generally follow a fixed format with the same general categories appearing at every meeting. The only serious moment of the meetings is the speech always given to the immortal memory of Charles Dickens. It is the only time requiring silence of the members A member giving the speech will generally have gone to some trouble to research an aspect of Dickens. Other than that, it is a free for all only controlled by the threat of being fined a bottle of port.
The first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the earlier history of the public career of the immortal Pickwick would appear to be involved, is derived from the perusal of the following entry in the Transactions of the Pickwick Club, which the editor of these papers feels the highest pleasure in laying before his readers, as a proof of the careful attention, indefatigable assiduity, and nice discrimination, with which his search among the multifarious documents confided to him has been conducted.
"May 12, 1827. Joseph Smiggers, Esq., P.V.P.M.P.C.,* presiding. The following resolutions unanimously agreed to:-
"That this Association has heard read, with feelings of unmingled satisfaction, and unqualified approval, the paper communicated by Samuel Pickwick, Esq., G.C.M.P.C.,Ý entitled 'Speculations on the Source of the Hampstead Ponds, with some Observations on the Theory of Tittlebats;' and that this Association does hereby return its warmest thanks to the said Samuel Pickwick, Esq., G.C.M.P.C., for the same.
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