2010’s Guild of Scholars meeting took place at General Seminary, November 12-14. At 10 AM Friday morning, November 12, the Anglican Society lecture featured the Director of the St Mark’s Library at GTS, Fr Andrew Kadel, who spoke on “The Permanent and Variable Characteristics of the Prayer Book” as seen in the recent discovery that has been given to the library: William Reed Huntington’s personal copy of the 1878 Book of Common Prayer containing his own notes, which influenced the subsequent American Prayer Book, and their relationship to liturgical revision in the 21st century.

Talks by members at the 2010 Guild meeting included:

David Evett (in, alas, his final talk to us) on “The Queene in the Tempest: Manuscript Instructions from a Patron to a Painter for an Elizabethan Political Allegory”;

Tom Wortham, “Ain’t It a Shame What’s Been Done to Mark Twain: The Selling of Huckleberry Finn”;

Marsha Dutton, “Saints Refusing to Leave: Aelred of Rievaulx’s Saints of Hexham as an Inverted Translatio”; and

Charles Bailey on “The Legacy of Dioxin.”