NOTES UPON CUNNINGHAM'S HANDBOOK FOR LONDON

No. 1. "*Gerrard Street, Soho*. * * * At the Turk's Head, in Gerrard Street, Johnson and Sir Joshua Reynolds founded, in the year 1764, 'The Literary Club.'" It would appear from the following extracts in my Common-place Book, that the *original* Turk's Head, at which the Literary Club first held their meetings, was in Greek Street, Soho, not in Gerrard Street:— "The Literary Club was first held at the Turk's Head in *Greek* Street, which tavern was almost half a century since removed to Gerrard Street, where it continued nearly as long as the house was kept open."—European Mag. Jan. 1803. "Th…