Mr. Percival Septimus Latchmere-Finch

Mr. Percival Septimus Latchmere-Finch, the Vestibule Clerk, is the Athenaeum's public threshold voice: brief, riddling notices from the doorway that signal institutional life without disclosing the private Reading Circle's work.

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Mr. Percival Septimus Latchmere-Finch — Mr. Latchmere-Finch in-house, the Vestibule Clerk in prose — stands at the public threshold of the Athenaeum: bell-pull, visitor's book, rain-dark umbrella stand, and a drawer of index cards written in symbols only half explained. He does not conduct the Reading Circle's private work. He tells the public that a reading room exists, that the lamps are lit, and that certain shelves have stirred.

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