"there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour"
Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol
Celebrating the London Dickens Pickwick Club's 50th anniversary
Friday Sept 12th 2025 2pm
1pm for cocktails
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Mr. Slasher's expertise in port will be formally recognized after numerous visits to Portugal. We look forward to the attendance of several members in 2027 at his certification ceremony
Following several trips to Portugal, Mr. Slasher will become a master of port. We are optimistic that numerous members will accompany him in 2027
If the London trip is amything to go by, this will be well worth attendong
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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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