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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.
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Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, who published under the pseudonym “Q” (1863–1944), was a prolific novelist, a literary critic and the editor of the monumental The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250–1900.
He spoke twice at the Whitefriars Club: on 8th April 1904 (‘What are the Dominating Influences in Literary Productions?’) and on 7th March 1913.
