PREFACE 
For kind permission to make the drawings reproduced in the following 
pages, and for the facilities so freely given me in doing so, my thanks are due 
To Her Gracious Majesty Queen Alexandra. F 
His Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. 
His Grace the late Duke of Northumberland. 
The Right Honourable Mary Countess of Ilchester. 
The Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of London. 
Major Goldman, M.P., of Walpole House, The Mall, Chiswick. 
The late Dr. Tuke and Charles Tuke, Esq. 
Charles Grant Church, Esq., of 8, The Grove, Highgate. 
Warwick Draper, Esq., formerly of Kelmscott House, Upper Mall, 
Hammersmith. 
The Trustees of Hogarth House, Chiswick ; The ‘“‘ Physicke Garden,” 
Chelsea ; Carlyle House, Chelsea, and Leighton House, Kensington. 
I also cordially acknowledge the valuable aid I have received, through 
information not otherwise obtainable, from Mary Countess of Ilchester, The 
Lady Frances Balfour, The Hon. Charlotte Knollys and Lady Thornycroft. 
And there are two others to whom—though I do not name them—I am 
deeply grateful, for without their sympathy and steady, kindly encourage- 
ment I am inclined to think the book would never have been written—or, 
at least, completed. 
With regard to the work itself, I should like to say in explanation of a 
certain want of continuity that may be felt in its pages, the manner of 
its genesis should be known. 
Pictures in a picture gallery are regarded as distinct entities, but the 
chapters of a book (unless it be frankly a collection of short stories) ought 
to have some logical connection. I have dealt chronologically with the 
various histories related in the following pages, as far as it has been possible 
to do so. Also, if the Reader will look for it, there is a well-defined chain 
of circumstance linking together many of the chapters in ‘“ Gardens of 
Celebrities ’—but since its existence is accidental, and it is broken in places 
—the book, I fear, must plead guilty to a Jack of cohesion. 
This is largely because the illustrations earliest in point of time—those of 
Kelmscott House, Hogarth House and Holland House, which were executed 
