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Hogarth Club, 84, Charlotte Street, Fitzroy-square, is established to facilitate association amongst artists who wish to enjoy the advantages of a life class, sketching club, and reading-room together with the benefits derived from social intercourse. “Only artists shall be admitted.” Candidates are elected at the quarterly meetings by ballot, a majority of four-fifths of the members present shall be required to elect. Conversazioni are held from time to time. “Excisable articles shall be served to members only.” Entrance fee, £5 5s. subscription, £3 3s. ; country members, £1 11s. 6d.
Charles Dickens (Jr.), Dickens's Dictionary of London, 1879