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Peking Club Headed Paper, 1924
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China Rhyming
Posted: September 22nd, 2025 | No Comments »A couple of years back I wrote an article for the annual Royal Asiatic Society China Journal on the old Peking Club in the Legation Quarter – Trouble at the Peking Club in 1896.
The Club has always interested me as it was a focus for the (male) movers and shakers of the Legation Quarter.
Anyway, I knew that lots of people went there (it was reportedly quite tomb like, a bit dark, London gentleman’s club in style) to keep up with their correspondence.
But I’d never seen their headed paper – well, here’s an example…(courtesy of the letter writing of Reginald Johnston on the 22nd of April 1924)….and the envelope’s postage mark too…
['club'
'writing'
'headed'
'quarter'
'wrote'
'22nd'
'1924'
'trouble'
'tomb'
'legation'
'peking'
'went'
'paper']