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Excerpt from Old London Taverns: Historical, Descriptive and Reminiscent, With Some Account of the Coffee Houses, Clubs, Etc
How I first of all came to write these pages the following letter of mine to the Editor of the Pall Mall Gazette of Wednesday, January 3rd, 1894, will explain: -
Sir,
On Christmas day, pour passer le temps before dinner, I perused Mr. G. A. Sala's article in the Daily Telegraph of that day on "Dinners Departed and Discussed," and was not a little surprised, that in recalling his recollection of City chophouses, his memory has failed him, resulting "in his mixing up the babies" to a considerable extent, a result I have noticed more than once in that veteran journalist's writings on "Things and Persons" he has seen; and as the Daily Telegraph never allows the slightest suspicions of a doubt to be cast upon the correctness of any and everything appearing in its columns. I venture to trouble you with a few lines in order to state the real facts of the case.
In 1845 I was a clerk in a leading stockbroker's office in Finch Lane, Cornhill, the entrance to which was up a court between two chop-houses - Joe's, mentioned by Mr. Sala, and Snook's. I was a frequenter of both, and at neither one nor the other did anyone ever get their own purchases of chop or steak cooked, as described in the Daily Telegraph article. Had anyone entered Joe's with such an intention, he would speedily have been informed, by the bland and baldheaded waiter, that he was "mistook."
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Synopsis
Excerpt from Old London Taverns: Historical, Descriptive and Reminiscent, With Some Account of the Coffee Houses, Clubs, Etc
Possibly Mr. Sala may have visited both the Spread Eagle and Joe's, and after so long a lapse of years, close on half a century, a little mixing of the two is very pardonable to one who was only an occasional diner in the city. I was a daily customer at that time of one or other of the chop-houses in that neighbourhood.
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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.