author.

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[Footnote 1:]

The

Kit-Cat

Club met at a famous Mutton-Pie house in Shire Lane, by Temple Bar. The house was kept by Christopher Cat, after whom his pies were called Kit-Cats. The club originated in the hospitality of Jacob Tonson, the bookseller, who, once a week, was host at the house in Shire Lane to a gathering of writers. In an occasional poem on the

Kit-Cat Club

, attributed to Sir Richard Blackmore, Jacob is read backwards into

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