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man who officiated as waiter seems to have been touched from the very first by the quiet simplicity of the two ladies, and he tried to make them feel comfortable and at home in the long, low, dingy room upstairs. The high narrow windows looked into the gloomy Row; the sisters, clinging together in the most remote window-seat (as Mr. Smith tells me he found them when he came that Saturday evening to take them to the Opera), could see nothing of motion or of change in the grim dark houses opposite, so near and close, although the whole breadth of the Row was between.

BULWER LYTTON

1803-1873.

BULWER was born at No. 31 Baker Street, a three

storied plain brick house, standing in 1885, on the east side and next to the corner of Dorset Street; but in his youth his mother lived in Montague Square, in Nottingham Place, Marylebone, and at No. 5 Upper Seymour (now Seymour) Street, Portman Square, corner of Berkeley Mews, and numbered 10 in 1885. His first school was at Fulham, where he remained only a fortnight; his second at Sunbury, in Middlesex, fifteen miles from London, where, as he says in his Autobiography, he wasted two years.'

In 1829 he purchased and furnished the house No. 36 Hertford Street, Park Lane, to which he took his wife and infant daughter. It was unchanged in 1885. In 1837 a letter of Bulwer's was dated from The Albany' (see BYRON, p. 32).

In the year 1839 James Smith, in a letter, relates: 'I dined yesterday with E. L. Bulwer at his new residence in Charles Street, Berkeley Square, a splendidly and classically fitted up

mansion. One of the drawing-rooms is a fac-simile of a chamber
which our host visited at Pompeii. Vases, candelabra, chairs,
tables to correspond. He lighted a perfumed pastille modelled
from Vesuvius. As soon as the cone of the mountain
began to blaze I found myself an inhabitant of the
Humorists, devoted city.
There must be some mistake in
this record; the house in Charles Street on the north
side is certainly not a mansion, but a dwelling of
moderate size, and the Running Footman public house.

Timbs's
Wits and

vol. ii.:
James

Smith.

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At the time of the publication of 'Zanoni,' in 1841, Bulwer was living at No. 1 Park Lane, in a house since rebuilt.

Dr. Charles J. B. Williams, in his 'Recollections,' published in 1884, thus speaks of Bulwer, who was one of his patients :

When I visited him at his residence in Park Lane, even on entrance at the outer door, I began to find myself in an atmosphere of perfume, or rather of perfume mixed with tobacco fume. On proceeding further through a long corridor and anteroom the fume waxed stronger, and on entrance to the presence chamber, on a divan at the further end, through a haze of smoke loomed his lordship's figure, wrapt in an Oriental dressing-robe, with a colored fez, and half reclined upon the ottoman.

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In 1843 Bulwer occupied Craven Cottage at Fulham, on the banks of the Thames, just beyond the Bishop of London's Meadows. It stood in 1885, a complete but picturesque ruin, and must have been, in its day, a very remarkable specimen of fantastic architecture, embracing the Persian, Gothic, Moorish, and Egyptian styles. In the library Bulwer is said to have written more than one of his novels. He lived later in life at No. 12 Grosvenor Square, on the north side. He died at Torquay, and was buried from his own house, Grosvenor Square, in Westminster Abbey.

His favorite club was the Athenæum, on the southwest corner of Pall Mall and Waterloo Place.

JOHN BUNYAN.

1628-1688.

JOH!

OHN BUNYAN during his lifetime had few associations with London, although his bones lie not very far from those of the author of 'Robinson Crusoe' in the Cemetery of Bunhill Fields. He made occasional professional visits to town, however, when he usually preached in the meetinghouse in Zoar Street, Southwark, 'near the sign of the Faulcon' (see SHAKSPERE). This Zoar Chapel was about one hundred feet from Gravel Lane, on the left hand of the street going towards that lane. It was used as a wheelwright's shop after Bunyan's time; and when it was destroyed, its pulpit was carried to the Methodist Chapel in Palace Yard, Lambeth. Bunyan gathered together congregations of three thousand persons on Sundays, and twelve or fifteen hundred on week days.

There is a tradition that he had lodgings at one time on London Bridge, but there seems to be but little foundation for the story. While he was on one of these visits to town, in 1688, he died at the house of his friend Mr. Strudwick, a grocer, 'at the Sign of the Star on Snow Hill.' Robert Philips, in his 'Life of Bunyan' (chap. xlv.), quotes, from a manuscript in the Library of the British Museum, the following account of his death :—

Taking a tedious journey in a slabby, rainy day, and returning late to London, he was entertained by one Mr. Strudwick, a grocer on Snow Hill, with all the kind endearments of a loving friend, but soon found himself indisposed with a kind of shaking, as it were an ague, which increasing to a kind of fever, he took

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