Tulse Hill not otherwise found growing in London. Samson Young, protagonist in Martin Amis's "London Fields" goes to Tulse Hill to buy drugs. Jason Strugnell, a fictional poet in Wendy Cope's "Making Cocoa For Kingsley Amis", lives in Tulse Hill and mentions it a couple of times in "his" poems. The "Tulse Hill Parliament", a political club, features in P. G. Wodehouse's comic novel "Psmith in the City". The author attended Dulwich College, which is in the vicinity. Noel Streatfeild's novel ""Tennis Shoes"" (1937) is written about a family who live in Tulse Hill. Tulse Hill and its surrounding areas are locations
Edward Drinker Cope for fossils, became ill again, and returned to his home very weak. Osborn visited Cope on April 5, inquiring about Cope's health, but the sick paleontologist pressed his friend for his views on the origin of mammals. Word of Cope's illness spread, and he was visited by friends and colleagues; even in a feverish condition Cope delivered lectures from his bed. Cope died on April 12, 1897, 16 weeks short of his 57th birthday. Sternberg, still prospecting for Cope that spring, was woken by a liveryman who relayed word from Annie that Cope had died three days earlier. Sternberg wrote