T. HANLY BALL.
Wimbledon, 12th February, 1864.
PREFACE.
A brief account of "The Wimbledon Village Club" will explain the origin and object of the two following Lectures.
"The design of the Institution is to afford to the inhabitants, and more especially the working and middle classes of Wimbledon and its vicinity, opportunities of intellectual and moral improvement, and rational and social enjoyment, through the medium of a Reading Room and Library, Lectures and Classes."[A]
The Reading Room is supplied with Daily and Weekly Newspapers, Periodicals, and Books.
The Library contains upwards of Six Hundred volumes, all which have been presented to the Institution.