we may say: 'There is no salon now to compare with that of the Miss Berrys.""
Besides the Journals and Correspondence now in the British Museum, the principal authorities for the life of Mary and Agnes Berry are the Diary of Lord Colchester Thomas Moore's Journals; Letters to Ivy from the first Earl of Dudley; Harriet Martineau's Biographical Portraits; Lord Houghton's Monographs, Horace Walpole's Letters; and Warburton's Memoir of Horace Walpole and his Contemporaries; Letters of Harriet, Countess Granville; Cobbett's Memorials of Twickenham ;x Clayden's Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries; Mrs. Brookfield and her Circle; Horace Walpole's Twin-Wives (Temple Bar, March 1891); and Captain Hamilton's Cyril Thornton.
I am much indebted to Mrs. Charles H. E. Brookfield for the loan of a copy of Miss Kate Perry's privately-printed and exceedingly rare Reminiscences of a London Drawing-room, which contains much interesting information concerning the Berrys; and to Mr. A. M. Broadley, who has most generously permitted me to insert letters hitherto unpublished from the Countess of Albany, Maria Edgeworth, and Lord Jeffery, to Mary Berry; and from Mary Berry to Lady Hardwicke, Elizabeth Montagu, Mrs. Lamb, and Kate Perry, the originals of which are in his library. To the Rev. Henry W. Clark, the author of the admirable History of English Nonconformity, I owe many thanks for assistance rendered during the preparation of this work.