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Saturday evening, January 19. I am now in 

 lodgings, No. 36 Northumberland Street, near North- 

 umberland House, Charing Cross, in the room just 

 vacated by Dr. Richardson ; sixteen shillings a week, 

 and a shilling for my breakfast when I choose to take 

 it here. It is half past eleven. I have just come in ; 

 no fire, but fortunately my occupation for to-day is 

 soon told. Hooker, Joe, and I breakfasted with 

 Brown at his house, and stayed with him until four 

 o'clock in the afternoon ! I have a good deal to say 

 about him, but not here. He is a curious man in 

 other things besides botany. He has a few choice 

 paintings, and a few exquisite engravings he has 

 picked up on the Continent. I coveted them for you. 

 They are just what we should be delighted to have. 

 I dressed for dinner, then drove with my luggage to 

 my present lodgings, and then took up Hooker and 

 Joe for Bentham's to dinner at half past six, where 

 we met Lindley and Mr. Brydges ; the dinner was 

 just the beau ideal of taste and simple elegance. In 

 the drawing - room coffee was served up, and in a 

 half hour Assam tea. I am greatly pleased with 

 Bentham, and delighted with Mrs. B. But more of 

 this anon. We are to breakfast with him on Monday, 

 and then make up a party to Kew and the Horticul- 

 tural Gardens. The house he lives in, a pleasant place, 

 plain but tastefully furnished and arranged, was the 

 one where Jeremy Bentham lived. . . . 



Tuesday evening, January 22. I have to account 

 for myself for two days past, but fortunately this can 

 be done in general terms in few words. Were I to 

 enter very fully into particulars I should fill several 

 sheets. Yesterday Sir William Hooker, Joseph, and 

 I breakfasted according to appointment with Ben- 



