Casimir de Vere-Tipple, Esq. From a drawing by Jacques Émile Blanche.

Reproduced by kind permission of the Trustees of the Tate Gallery.

the drapers, entirely rebuilt their premises and a confectioner’s acquired the space between them and the Poet’s Corner. The secluded quiet of this once shady nook was further interrupted by the substitution of trams for horse-buses at the turn of the century, and the subsequent increase in traffic due to the coming of the internal combustion engine.

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