The Liberal Club and its Jamaican Secretary

Between 1913 and 1918 the New York Liberal Club in Greenwich Village was the chief gathering place for radicals, artists, bohemians, writers, and journalists, yet studies of it are patchy and repetitive. This essay adds to the archive the recently published memoir of the club's Jamaican secretary, casting new light on its 1913 move from Gramercy Park to McDougal Street.