Officers: A. Jordan, President; J. Leith Waters, Past President; Henry Best, G.E.S. Coxhead, J.E. Forty, Rev H.W. Perris, Vice-Presidents; William Andrews, Secretary; S. Harris, Treasurer; E. Lamplough, Librarian. Council: H.C. Appleby; E.E. Cohen; I.W. Dickinson; H.E.H. Gillett; Rev C.A. Hall; Rev W.J. Pearson; A.B. Priest; D. Wilson.

Syllabus:

Annual Dinner, 19 Oct 1897; 'Personality in Literature' by the President, 25 Oct 1897; 'The Cavalier Poets' by E. Sharwood Smith, 1 Nov 1897; 'Verse Parody' by J.E. Forty, 8 Nov 1897; Social Meeting, 15 Nov 1897; 'Giants' by S. Harris, 22 Nov 1897; 'The Rise of the Periodical Essay' by G.E.S. Coxhead, 29 Nov 1897; 'The Books of Olive Schreiner' by Rev C.A. Hall, 6 Dec 1897; 'The Plays of Pinero' by H. Lloyd, 13 Dec 1897; Christmas Revels, 23 Dec 1897; 'The Making of the British Empire in India' by Rev J.C.W. Gostick, 24 Jan 1898; 'John Ruskin, the Man and the Prophet' by S. Nicholson, 31 Jan 1898; 'Sonnets and Sonnet Writers' by D.C. Maxwell, 7 Feb 1898; 'The Decadence of Literarture' by E.E. Cohen, 14 Feb 1898; Social Meeting, 21 Feb 1898; 'The Poetry of William Morris' by D. Wilson, 28 Feb 1898; 'Danish Influence on the Folk Speech of the East Riding by J.R. Boyle, 7 Mar 1898; 'Heine' by I.W. Dickinson, 14 Mar 1898; 'Jewish Statesmen in European History' by Gustav Pearlson, 21 Mar 1898; The Past and Future Work of the Hull Literary Club, 28 Mar 1898.

Meetings held 8pm at the Royal Station Hotel.