The Charles Grove Society

The first goal of the Society of Charles Grove is to share Grove's work as widely as possible. The second goal is to give further context to these works and shed some light on the world that Grove lived in.

As a citizen of the Kingdom of Oscinia, Grove would have marked his days by the Oscinic Calendar, which was based on the various stages of apple growth.

While Oscinic apples (and the wines produced with these apples) were one of the more popular exports from Oscinia in days long past, the origin story that William Wye gives to the calendar is not exactly accurate.

Between the years of 1803 and 1810, Charles Grove and Buchanan Elderberry both lived in Caldermere and spent the vast majority of their time in each other's company. Their main occupation, of course, was writing. It was because of this that they developed the charming habit of passing each other notes as a means of preventing themselves from disturbing the other's concentration.

Today's passage comes from one such note.

Interestingly enough, neither individual owned enough land to produce a harvest large enough to weigh down a wagon in such a fashion. Instead, it is far more likely that Grove was actually referring here to the volumes of poetry that they had recently written.

By the end of 1803, Grove would go on to publish the first volume of his monumental work "Idylls of the Mind," and Buchanan Elderberry would release his equally influential collection: "Visions of Ceryne."