The library is a very long room,--as long, I should think, as the gallery at Rothley Temple,--with little cabinets for study branching out of it.
warmly and snugly fitted up, and looking out on very beautiful grounds.
The collection of books is not, like Lord Spencer's, curious; but it contains almost everything that one ever wished to read.

I found nobody there when I arrived but Lord Russell, the son of the Marquess of Tavistock.

We are old House of Commons friends; so we had some very pleasant talk, and in a little while in came Allen, who is warden of Dulwich College, and who lives almost entirely at Holland House.

He is certainly a man of vast information and great conversational powers.
Some other gentlemen dropped in, and we chatted till Lady Holland made her appearance.

Lord Holland dined by himself on account of his gout.
We sat down to dinner in a fine long room, the wainscot of which is rich with gilded coronets, roses, and portcullises.