Kit-Cat Club
[ Association / Associational culture / Politics & Society ]
… Kit-Cat’s political functions, 11 while elderly members such as Congreve and Tonson continued to exchange their mutual affection and nostalgia for the Club’s hey-day in letters and posted gifts. 11 . Such as those of Walpole at Houghton …
… father’s side. Meanwhile James Houblon (1629-1700) and his family of wealthy Huguenot merchants became ‘cousins’ by affection, rather than kinship. Will Hewer (1642-1715), who had first been employed in 1660 as Pepys’s clerk, continued …