So thought Somerset Maugham, the great man of letters. On 22 October 2025, Peter Henderson, the Archivist of the King’s School, gave a group of Society members a talk and tour of Maugham’s old school, showing them Maugham’s enormous bequest of books, as well as books and documents of other Old King’s Scholars, and of other VIPs whose paths had crossed at various times with the School. It was fascinating!