23 Albemarle Street, neither of which is now in existence. He was also a member of the Cocoa Tree Club, which still had the house No. 64 St. James's Street in 1885.

On the 9th of April, 1814, he wrote to Moore:

I have also been drinking, and on one occasion, with three other friends of the Cocoa Tree, from six till four, yea, five in the matin. We clareted and champagned till two, then supped, and finished with a kind of Regency punch, composed of Madeira, brandy, and green tea, no real water being admitted therein. There was a night for you! without once quitting the table, excepting to ambulate home, which I did alone, and in utter contempt of a hackney coach, and my own vis, both of which were deemed necessary for our conveyance.

THOMAS CAMPBELL.

1777-1844.

CAMPBELL saw almost nothing of London until his

marriage, which took place in the Church of St. Margaret, Westminster, in 1803. He shortly afterwards hired a house at Sydenham, where he lived for seventeen years, and where the whole of 'Gertrude of Wyoming' was written.

In November, 1804, Campbell wrote from Sydenham to Constable :

If you come to London and drink to the health of Auld Reekie over my new mahogany table, if you take a walk round my garden, and see my braw house, my court-yard, Constable hens, geese and turkeys, or view the lovely country in and his Litmy neighborhood, you will think this fixture and erary Correspondents. furniture money well bestowed. I shall indeed be nobly settled, and the devil is in it if I don't work as nobly for it.

George Ticknor's Life and Journal,

June 25, 1815. Mr. Campbell asked me to come out and see him to-day, and make it a long day's visit. So after the morning service I drove out, and stayed with him until nearly nine o'clock this evening. He lives in a pleasvol. i. chap. ant little box at Sydenham, nine miles from town, a beautiful village, which looks more like an American village than any I have seen in England. His wife is a bonny little Scotch woman, with a great deal of natural vivacity.

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Cyrus Redding's Recol

lections of Fifty Years.

His mode of life at Sydenham was almost uniformly that which he afterwards followed in London, when he made it a constant residence. He rose not very early, breakfasted, studied for an hour or two, dined at two or three o'clock, and then made a call or two. . . . He would return home to tea, and then retire early to his study, remaining there till a late hour; sometimes even till an early one. His life was strictly domestic; he gave a dinner-party now and then, and at some of them Thomas Moore, Rogers, and other literary friends from town were present. His table was plain, hospitable, and cheered by a hearty welcome.

Thorne, in his 'Hand-Book of the Environs of London,' described this house in 1876 as on Peak Hill, the third on the right before reaching Sydenham Station.' It still stood in 1885, unaltered since Campbell's occupancy of it, except that the gardens about it had been covered with modern villas, and that its rural character had disappeared. It was one of a row of tall red brick buildings near Peak Hill Road, with nothing to distinguish it from its neighbors, and was numbered 13 Peak Hill Avenue.

In 1820 Campbell settled in London, on his appointment as editor of the 'New Monthly Magazine.' He lodged for a time in Margaret Street, Cavendish Square, but soon took the house, then No. 10 Upper Seymour Street, since known as No. 18 Seymour Street, Portman Square, and unchanged in 1885, where he wrote 'Theodoric,''The Last Man,' etc., and where he remained until he lost his wife, in 1828. Greatly depressed in spirit after his bereavement, he resigned his

editorship and lived in loneliness and retirement at No. 61 Lincoln's Inn Fields. His chambers here were on the second floor, and the mansion was still standing in 1885.

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In 1830 he was living at No. 1 Middle Scotland Yard, afterwards the Almonry Office. His other lodgings and homes in London were at 42 Eaton Street, Stockbridge Terrace, Pimlico, - a street since absorbed in Grosvenor Place, and of course re-numbered; No. 18 Old Cavendish Street, Oxford Street, on the west side; in York Chambers, St. James's Street, on the northeast corner of Piccadilly; and at No. 30 Foley Place, Regent Street, a few doors from Middleton Buildings. Foley Place was afterwards called Langham Street, and renumbered. In 1832, while devoting himself to the cause of Poland, he occupied an attic at the Polish Headquarters, in Sussex Chambers, No. 10 Duke Street, St. James's Street, still in existence in 1885. August 25, he writes:

Here in the Polish Chambers I daily parade the main room, a superb hall, where all my books are ensconced, Dr. Beatand where old Nol used to give audiences to his tie's Memoir of Campbell, foreign ambassadors. 1832.

Again, September 28, he writes:

I am not dissatisfied with my existence as it is now occupied. I get up at seven, write letters for the Polish Association until half past nine, breakfast, go to the club Ibid. and read the newspaper until twelve. Then I sit down

to my own studies, and with many and also vexatious interruptions, do what I can till four. I then walk round the Park, and generally dine out at six. Between nine and ten I return to chambers, read a book or write a letter, and go to bed before twelve.

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In 1840 Campbell leased the house No. 8 Victoria Square, Buckingham Palace Road, Pimlico. It still stood in 1885, on the south side and unaltered. He died at Boulogne, France, June 15, 1844, and on the 3d of July was buried in the Poets' Corner.