Transcribed from the 1889 T. Fisher Unwin edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org [Picture: Statue of Thomas Carlyle, by Boehm] OLD CHELSEA _A SUMMER-DAY’S STROLL_ BY BENJAMIN ELLIS MARTIN ILLUSTRATED BY JOSEPH PENNELL [Picture: Gateway of Rossetti’s old house] London T FISHER UNWIN 26 PATERNOSTER SQUARE 1889 NOTE. THE stroll described in these pages may be imagined to be taken during the summer of 1888: all the dates, descriptions, and references herein having been brought down to the present moment. The specimen of Old Chelsea ware on the cover is an accurate copy—reduced in size, naturally—of one of the plates of the set belonging once to Dr. Johnson, now in Holland House. For the privilege of this unique reproduction I am indebted to the courtesy of Lady Holland. B. E. M. LONDON, _August_, 1888 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE STATUE OF THOMAS CARLYLE, BY BOEHM _Frontispiece_ THE EMBANKMENT MANSIONS FROM BATTERSEA 16 A VIEW OF CHELSEA 21 STEAMBOAT PIER AT OLD BATTERSEA BRIDGE, AND THE 26 RIVER FRONT, TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO THE EMBANKMENT AND OLD BATTERSEA BRIDGE 29 MAP OF CHELSEA 35 THE HOUSES AT CHELSEA 56 LINDSEY HOUSE AND BATTERSEA BRIDGE 59 SANDFORD MANOR HOUSE, SAND’S END 64 CHELSEA HOSPITAL, RIVER FRONT 72 PARADISE ROW 88 TITE STREET 99 STATUE OF SIR HANS SLOANE IN THE BOTANIC GARDENS 103 NO. 4, CHEYNE WALK 107 GATEWAY OF ROSSETTI’S OLD HOUSE 110 DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI’S GARDEN 114 DON SALTERO’S 123 CHEYNE WALK, WITH THE MAGPIE AND STUMP 127 A CHELSEA CORNER 133 STATUE OF THOMAS CARLYLE, BY BOEHM 136 CARLYLE’S HOUSE, GREAT CHEYNE ROW 139 THE CHELSEA RECTORY 144 A CORNER IN CHELSEA OLD CHURCH 154