ET, 28.] JOURNAL. 115 
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 eurious 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- 
