History Corner
Mark Twain Returns to the Whitefriars ClubOn 16th June 1899, more than twenty-five years from his first visit, the celebrated humorist Mark Twain returned to the Whitefriars Club.
Read moreOn 16th June 1899, more than twenty-five years from his first visit, the celebrated humorist Mark Twain returned to the Whitefriars Club.
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In 1897, the twenty-five-year American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar travelled to England for a literary tour. He recited his works on the London circuit – and, what was not known before, visited the Whitefriars Club.
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Christopher Logue (1926–2011) was a pacifist and a poet associated with the British Poetry Revival movement.
Logue spoke at the Whitefriars Club 21st October 1959 on the subject of ‘The Modern Poet in Print’.
