Soul of London
Author: first_name: Ford Madox
last_name: Ford
Language: English
Year: 1905

'Most of us love places very much as we may love what, for us, are the distinguished men of our social lives. [...] We are, all of us who are Londoners, paying visits of greater or less duration to a Personality that, whether we love it or very cordially hate it, fascinates us all.  And, paying my visit, I have desired to give some such record.<br /><br />

I have tried to make it anything rather than encyclopaedic, topographical, or archaeological.  To use a phrase of literary slang I have trie