Officers: Rev E.W. Lummis, President; G.E.S. Coxhead, Past President; J.E. Forty, Alfred Jordan, Rev W.J. Pearson, J. L. Walters, Vice-Presidents; William Andrews and Donald Wilson, Secretaries; Henry Best, Treasurer; E. Lamplough, Librarian. Council: L.H. Bergman; Hubert Boden; Jas. Dixon; H.S. Fairbank; J. MacNidder; R.H. Philip; A.B. Priest; H.J. Tiffen.

Syllabus:

Annual Dinner, 23 Oct 1899; 'English Verse' by the President, 30 Oct 1899; 'George Gissing, Novelist' by A. Brooke, 6 Nov 1899; 'Pre-Historic Man in Holderness' by Thomas Sheppard, 13 Nov 1899; 'George Eliot, her Humour and Pathos' by Joseph Gregson, 20 Nov 1899; Social Meeting, 27 Nov 1899; 'Emile Zola' by E.E. Cohen, 4 Dec 1899; 'Goeth' by Henry Best, 11 Dec 1899; 'Yorkshire during the Civil War' by Edward Lamplough, 18 Dec 1899; Christmas Revels, 23 Dec 1899; 'A Night with Shakespeare', 22 Jun 1900; 'Lewis Carroll' by J.E. Forty, 29 Jan 1900; 'Old Sanctuary Days' by William Andrews, 5 Feb 1900; 'Certain Racial Characteristics and National Ironies' by Rev H.W. Perris, 12 Feb 1900; 'Pattern and Plot' by Hubert Boden, 19 Feb 1900; Social Meeting, 26 Feb 1900; 'Short Tales from Hindoo Books' by Rev John C.W. Gostick, 5 Mar 1900; 'Anatole France, Novelist' by J.L. Waters, 12 Mar 1900; 'Charlotte Bronte' by Donald Wilson, 19 Mar 1900; 'The Past and Future of the Hull Literary Club', 26 Mar 1900; Annual Meeting, 2 Apr 1900.

Meetings held 8pm at the Royal Station Hotel.