" Gower St. and All That "
Sta,—I have no wish to detract from Mr. Wilson Harris's sentimental perambulations in Gower Street. , Surely, however, since it was inhabited by the famous men whom he mentions, the street has been re-numbered, presumably in accordance with the rule of numbering, where possible, away from St. Paul's. Millais, for instance, surely painted his earlier pre-Raphaelite works not at No. 83, but in the one- storey studio which can still be seen projecting at the back of No. 7.
On the other hand I should hate to suggest that the transactions of No. 99 had ever been anything but disreputable.—I am, Sir, yours
faithfully. R. FURNEAUX JORDAN, Savile Club, 69 Brook Street, W.I.
[Mr. Wilson Harris writes: I took my statement regarding No. 83 from a historical work, but there may well have been re-numbering since it was published.]
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