Chapter C: Whiting, Beaufort House, Strand

Transcriber’s Note:

This book was written in a period when many words had not become standardized in their spelling. Words may have multiple spelling variations or inconsistent hyphenation in the text. These have been left unchanged. Obsolete and alternative spellings were left unchanged. Misspelled words were not corrected.

Words and phrases in italics are surrounded by underscores, _like this_. Footnote was renumbered and was moved to the end of the preface. Obvious printing errors, such as backwards, upside down, or partially printed letters and punctuation, were corrected. Final stops missing at the end of sentences and abbreviations were added.