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Famous houses and literary shrines of London (1912)

Adcock, Arthur St. John, 1864-1930, Adcock, Frederick · London, J.M. Dent & sons, ltd.; New York, E.P. Dutton & co. · leaf 390

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able end of it. Lady Blessington held her brilliant salon at8 Seamore Place, Mayfair, before in 1836 she removedto the more noted Gore House, Kensington, andwelcomed to her splendid drawing-rooms Byron,Lytton, DisraeH, Landor, Marryat, Dickens,Thackeray, Sydney Smith, Maclise, Hook, and allthe… … ROBERT BROWNING CONCLUSION 339 its place long since, and the Albert Hall more thancovers the site of it. But Holland House, which wasequally or more celebrated for its magnificent socialgatherings in the first half of last century and earlier,stUl holds its ground. Addison lived there after…

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