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LED/2026/02

Circle Book: One Rota, 2017 to 2026

Kind:
Ledger
Date:
January 2026
Origin:
Charlottetown Circle
Access:
Open.

The reading-room and returns duty, extracted from the Circle Book, showing every hand it has passed through in nine years. Mundane by design.

CHARLOTTETOWN CIRCLEBOOK EXTRACT READING ROOM / RETURNS

2017 Held: B. Coady (from 2014). 24 openings. Returns shelved same day

except two weeks in March (flu; carried by N. Gallant).

2018 Held: B. Coady. 26 openings. Second key cut, £6.40, entered.

2019 Held: B. Coady. 25 openings. Asked that the duty be split. The

circle declined and the request is entered at her insistence.

2020 Held: B. Coady. 9 openings. Room closed March to October.

Returns collected from doorsteps; 41 items, none lost.

2021 Held: B. Coady. 24 openings.

2022 Held: B. Coady, carried May and June by A. Doiron (hip).

Handrail fitted, $118.00, entered.

2023 Held: B. Coady. Asked again that the duty be split. Split agreed:

openings B. Coady, returns A. Doiron. Both entered as one duty in

two hands, which the clerk notes is not a thing the form allows.

2024 Held: B. Coady and A. Doiron. 26 openings. Form amended.

2025 Held: B. Coady and A. Doiron. 25 openings. Damp in the north

corner; four items sent to Shore House for drying and returned.

2026 Openings: A. Doiron and K. MacPhee. Returns: A. Doiron.

B. Coady stands down after twelve years and keeps the

correspondence. Sequence of holders written inside the cupboard

door, as required.

Extracted at the circle's own suggestion during the 2026 count. The circle asked that the two refused requests of 2019 be printed with the rest.

Catalogued at the North House · reproduction permitted for study · redactions are not itemised