120 FIRST JOURNEY IN EUROPE.  [1839, 
the museum in Java and India. He is an American, 
if you can so call a man who has not been in the 
country since the year 1800. I was much interested 
with the library, which contains a vast quantity of 
Indian idols, sculptures, and antiquities, as well as 
fine Chinese curiosities. It is immensely rich, also, in 
Indian, Persian, and Arabic manuscripts; the finest 
in the world in such things. Some of the Persian 
Arabic) manuscripts are most beautifully illustrated, 
or illuminated, and the writing is neater than you can 
conceive. Here is preserved als an original petition 
of the India Company to Oliver Osouenall, with the 
answer in his own rough and strong handwriting. . . . 
We dined at Lambert’s, where we found Robert Brown, 
Mr. Ward,? who had been looking for me, and imme- 
diately asked me to name a day to see his plants in 
e Wardian cases, and an evening erelong to examine 
some thirty or forty first-rate microscopes which he 
has in his house; also Dr. Bostock, Mr. Benson, a 
legal gentleman, a great scholar and author; and last, 
not least, yet certainly almost the last person I should 
have expected to see, Lady Charlotte Bury (formerly 
Lady Charlotte Campbell), whom you will remember 
as the author of that book on the secret history of 
the court of George IV. and his Queen, of which we 
read together, that summer, the deeply interesting re- 
view by Brougham. Lady Bury is now supposed to 
be sixty years old, and was for a long time considered 
as the handsomest woman in Great Britain; she still 
keeper of the museum of the East India Company. ee & Bennett 
— part of his colleetions, Plante Javanice Rarior 
1 I forgot to mention also some bricks from Babylon, pane with 
arrowhead oe which were the most interesting relies of an- 
tiquity I almost ever saw. — A. G. 
? Nathaniel B. Ward, 1 791-1868 ; inventor of the Wardian case. 
