Peking Club Headed Paper, 1924

A couple of years back I wrote an article for the annual Royal Asiatic Society China Journal on the old Peking Club in the Legation Quarter – Trouble at the Peking Club in 1896. The Club has always interested me as it was a focus for the (male) movers and shakers of the Legation Quarter. Anyway, I knew that lots of people went there (it was reportedly quite tomb like, a bit dark, London gentleman’s club in style) to keep up with their correspondence. But I’d never seen their headed paper – well, here’s an example…(courtesy of the letter writing of Reginald Johnston on the 22nd of April 1924)….and the envelope’s postage mark too…