David Garrick--His Residence in the Adelphi--Founds the Drury Lane Fund--His Last Appearance on the Stage--Honoured by Parliament--The Friendship of Mr and Mrs Garrick for Hannah More--Their Correspondence--Garrick helps the Production of _Percy_--Presents his Buckles to Hannah More--The Production of _Percy_--Garrick's Prologue gives Offence--Garrick brings Hannah More's Dinner from the Adelphi to the "Turk's Head"--The Literary Club--His Last Illness and Death 123-144 CHAPTER VII Garrick's Funeral from the Adelphi--Johnson's Opinion of Garrick: "A Liberal Man"--His Death "Eclipsed the Gaiety of Nations"--Topham Beauclerk and Johnson--Mrs Garrick's famous Dinner Party--Johnson and other Celebrities Present--Described by Hannah More and Boswell--Johnson's Morning Visit to Adelphi Terrace--Hannah More's Life Here--Another Dinner Party--Death of Mrs Garrick--Shakespeare's Gloves sent to Mrs Siddons from the Adelphi--Goldsmith writes from a Sponging-House to Garrick in the Adelphi--Becket, the Bookseller 145-171 CHAPTER VIII The celebrated Quack, Dr Graham--His Temple of Health in the Adelphi--Satirised by Colman and Bannister--"Vestina, the Rosy Goddess of Health"--Emma Lyon, Lady Hamilton--Osborn's Hotel--The King and Queen of the Sandwich Islands--Their Death in the Adelphi--Isaac d'Israeli--The Earl of Beaconsfield--Thomas Hill, the Original of Paul Pry--Thomas Hood and Charles Dickens--_David Copperfield_ and _Pickwick_--Ivy Lane--The Fox-under-the-Hill--The Adelphi "Dark Arches" 172-191 CHAPTER IX The First Bankers--Middleton & Campbell, predecessors of Coutts & Co., "at The Three Crowns in the Strand"--Patrick and John Coutts--Patrick and Thomas Coutts in London--Death of James Coutts--Enter Thomas Coutts--Letter by Him--His Stern Character--Married to Harriot Mellon--Susan Starkie and "The Three Graces"--Sir Francis Burdett--Angela Georgina Burdett--The Duchess of St Albans--Anecdotes of Thomas Coutts--His Personal Appearance--Interior of the Bank--The Chinese Wall-Paper--The Adelphi Chapel--Illustrious Customers of Messrs Coutts--Partners in the Firm--The Wills of Thomas Coutts and the Duchess of St Albans--The Savage Club--Thomas Hardy--E.L. Blanchard 192-217 CHAPTER X York House--Francis Bacon--The Great Seal taken from Him--Lord Keeper Egerton--The Duke of Buckingham, King James' "Steenie" --Magnificence of his Entertainments--Contemporary Descriptions--Bishop Goodman's Praise--The Second Duke--Dryden's Revenge--The "Superstitious Pictures" of York House--Buckingham's Marriage--Spanish, Russian, and French Ambassadors Here--Visits by Pepys and Evelyn--Duke of Buckingham sells York House--His Curious Condition of Sale--The Duke's _Litany_ 218-234 CHAPTER XI