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Title: A wanderer in London
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall), 1868-1938
Subjects: Art -- England London London (England) -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan company London, Methuen & co.

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d stranger is not admitted. I hope so. If the sermon is ever too advanced for the visitor (andI seem to remember that now and again it was so in thedays of the gifted Momerie) he will always find the childrenworth study. Boy, said the terrible James Boyer ofChrists Hospital to the youthful Samuel Taylor Coleridge,boy, the school is your father: boy, the school is yourmother . . . lets have no more crying. It was not quitetrue of Coleridge, who had a real enough mother in Devon-shire: but it is literally true of the children here. Yetwhen the Communion comes round their response to thefifth commandment is as hearty as to any other, and asfree from apparent irony. Before the Foundling Hospital was built, in 1739, therewere fields here, and in 1719 a very early cricket matchwas played in them between the Men of Kent and the Menof London for £60. I know not which won. At No. 77Guilford Street, in 1803, lived Sydney Smith. Althoughin the centre of Queen Square, which leads out of Guilford
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