Leslie Smith
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Leslie W. Smith was a UK fan from London active in the 1930s. He attended the Second British Convention in London in April 1938. He was also a member of the Science Fiction Association (SFA) from around October 1937.
Smith was seemingly never announced as a new member of the SFA in the pages of Novae Terrae. The inaugural meeting of the London branch on October 3, 1937 held elections and 'L. W. Smith' was elected to the 'Science Circle Committee' although the report in Novae Terrae #17 adds '(Election not yet confirmed)'. Novae Terrae #23 reported that at the May 8, 1938 meeting:
The monthly short-story reading followed – 'The Musical Box' by Branch member Leslie Smith being greatly acclaimed by all.
Novae Terrae #21 reported Smith as among 'distinguished s-f personalities who have promised to attend' the Second British Convention.
The November 1938 meeting as reported in Novae Terrae #28 featured:
a fifty minute science talk by Les W. Smith on short-wave radio and its applications in which he dwelt on the possibilities of heat-rays, the difficulties of submarine radio, the mysteries of the Derringer effect, the public television booths that are being constructed in Russia, and the television telephone used between Berlin and Hamburg at the cost of £10 a call
D. R. Smith had an older brother called Leslie who may also have been a fan. That at least is the impression given by Eric Needham when he visited D. R. in 1942. That Leslie Smith lived with D. R, his sister and mother in Nuneaton. At this remove it's impossible to tell whether they're the same person.
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