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Since 1920, the Club has held an annual RLS Dinner or RLS Lunch at which members have been addressed by literary figures such as Walter de la Mare, John Buchan, J.B. Priestley and Ludovic Kennedy. Click here for the list of speakers.
At these lunches and dinners it has been customary to propose the Toast to the City in recognition of the significance of Edinburgh to RLS. Replies to this Toast are given by the Lord Provost of Edinburgh or other elected City official. Click here for the list of proposers of the Toast to Edinburgh and those who replied.
In 1985, on the Centenary of A Child's Garden of Verses, the Club launched an international appeal with two aims:
· to erect a memorial to RLS in West Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh
· to create and endow the RLS Memorial Trust to help children with respiratory diseases.
The first, a coppice of birch trees surrounding a simple stone column designed by the Scottish artist-poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, was inaugurated in 1989.
The Memorial Trust will be the Club's living memorial - a continuing commitment in memory of RLS, and fund-raising for the Trust has been added to the Club's objectives.
In 1994 the Club played an important part during the Centenary of the death of RLS, when the writer was celebrated in a host of events in many countries.
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