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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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Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927) was the author of a wide range of plays, essays and novels, and is best known today for the classic comic work Three Men in a Boat.
Jerome K. Jerome appears to have spoken at the Whitefriars Club for the first time on 4th October 1901, on the topic of ‘Humour in Literature’. He returned to the club almost twenty-five years later, delivering a speech on ‘Class Warfare’ on 16th October 1925.
