 "The Grecian" was the favourite coffee-house in London of the renowned Shakespearean scholar Edmond Malone.In April 1776 he wrote his father a letter from there, boasting "I am at present writing in a coffee-house, in the midst of so much noise and bustle—the celebrated anti-Sejanus (Mr. Scott) on one side and Mr. [Charles] Macklin [the actor] on the other—that I can't add anything more at present.