Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1901 — Literary Landmarks Doomed. [ARTICLE]

Literary Landmarks Doomed.

The doom of another batch of literary landmarks has lately been sealed. First the old Black Bull Tavern in Holbom, where Mrs. Gamp nursed Mr. Lewsome In partnership with Betsy Prig—“Nussed together, turn and turn about, one off, one on.” Then the Red Lion, at Henley-on-Thames, in which Shenstone was said to have written familiar lines which Dr. Johnson quoted to maintain his thesis that “there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness Is produced as by a good tavern or inn.” Lately, too, Burford-brldge Hotel, near Box-hill, where Keats finished “Endymlon” toward the end of 1817, has been in the market—whether for demolition or not, we cannot say.—Literature.