MISS FOX'S DIARY AT HOLLAND HOUSE 23 



identical, being both absolutely unconnected 

 with each other. The substance might exist 

 without the colour, and vice versa. Papa 

 mentioned Hesiod, and said he thought he had 

 certainly existed since Homer's time. There is 

 a notion that Pisistratus arranged the Iliad, and 

 that until his time it had only been transmitted 

 by memory to posterity. We compared the 

 Greeks and the Komans. I asked whether the 

 former were not the more cultivated nation, 

 while less religious than the latter.' 



My mother was also in the habit of recording 

 in her diary the names of those who dined at 

 Holland House, or in Old Burlington Street, the 

 London house to which the family sometimes 

 adjourned in the winter months. 



Under date January 1, 1824, the following 

 entry is made : ' Dined down for the first time 

 since I sprained my ankle. Mr. Brougham, 1 Sir 

 James Mackintosh, 2 Mr. Whishaw, 3 Mr. 4 and 

 Mrs. "Bobus " Smith, Grandmama, Mr. Allen, 5 



1 Afterwards Lord Brougham. 2 The historian. 



3 A Scotchman, author of various legal and political pamphlets. 



4 Brother of Sydney Smith. 



5 A doctor, and old friend, resident at Holland House. 



