Note 106 — Chapter VI · WELLINGTON’S LIEUTENANTS—HILL, BERESFORD, GRAHAM

He wanted, he wrote, “to have a place of meeting where they can enjoy social intercourse combined with economy, and cultivate old acquaintance formed on service.” Hitherto “officers coming to town for a short period were driven into expensive and bad taverns and coffee-houses, without a chance of meeting their friends or any good society.”