2-703-784 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'In Devereux Court, Full of Eighteenth-Century Associations', c1935. Devereux Court in Westminster, central London, with signs advertising Claymore and Dewar's whisky. On this narrow pedestrian street were the Grecian Coffee House and Tom's Coffee House, the heart of London's literary scene in the 17th and 18th centuries. Sarah Mapp the Bonesetter carried on her medical trade here, some of her operations in the presence of Sir Hans Sloane. From "Wonderful London, Volume 3", edited by Arthur St John Adcock. [The Fleetway House, London, c1935]