The efforts to save Crosby Hall will be made enormously
more effectual by the welcome letter which the King has caused Lord Knollys to write to Mr. Gomme. " The King," says the letter, "has been informed that there appears to be some chance of Crosby Hall, a building of great historic interest, being pulled down. His Majesty has seen the report presented to the London County Council on the subject, and commands me to inquire whether this report has met with a favourable response, and to express his hope that means may be found to preserve such an interesting relic of old London." We note in the Tribune an interesting suggestion that every Liveryman of the City should pay a small annual subscription to the Crosby Hall Fund, the Hall being used for dinners by those Companies which have not got Halls of their own. But why not go further, and let the Hall be used as a private lunching place by the Liverymen just as the barristers of the Temple and Lincoln's Inn use their Halls ? Crosby Hall would, in fact, become the Liverymen's Club.
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