| Description | Writes to recommend James Ewing Ritchie to the post of secretary to the Whittington Club
1 May 1848
[John Childs (1783-1853) printer of Bungay, Suffolk; the Whittington Club, Arundel Street, Strand, was established in 1847 as a club and literary institute for the middle classes, holding lectures and evening classes. Source: http://www.victorianlondon.org/entertainment/whittington.htm accessed January 2018 |