City of London	
	In “Harry and Lucy . . . vol. 1,” when Mama mentions that Papa has gone to the “city,” she refers to the “general name for London within the gates and within the bars” (Cunningham, Hand-book of London 121). By the early nineteenth century, the gates and bars had been removed, except for Temple Bar, designed by Wren after the Great Fire.
	The business premises of Ruskin, Telford, and Domecq were located near Aldgate, the eastern edge of the City, in Billiter Street, between Leadenhall and Fenchurch streets. The lane, Billiter Street, was very old, having escaped the Great Fire, but considered mean by an eighteenth-century observers, except for the Billiter Square of their own time, which was “airy” and lined with “good new brick buildings, very well inhabited” (Besant, London City 150; Cunningham, Hand-book of London 54). These formerly elegant residences in the square were, by the early nineteenth century, giving way to businesses, including importing concerns, such as West India House, which operated the West India Docks (Chancellor, Squares of London 384–85). For such companies and Ruskin, Telford, and Domecq, the convenience of Billiter Street would have been its vicinity to the London docks, which lay east of the nearby Tower of London.