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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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Joseph Hodges Choate
Joseph Hodges Choate (1832–1917) was an American lawyer and diplomat. He served as ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1899 to 1905.
Choate spoke twice at the Whitefriars Club: on 3rd November 1899 (‘Hands across the Sea’) and on 1st May 1903.
