John Hunter's House

Abstract

EARL's COURT HOUSE, once the residence of the illustrious John Hunter, has been made very properly the subject of a letter in the Times of Tuesday last, by Dr. Farquharson, M.P. The house, with which I have been familiar for the past twenty-two years, is well worth all the attention of the curious which Dr. Farquharson claims for it. It differs, no doubt, somewhat from what it was in Hunter's time, but not so much, I think, as my friend supposes; for a drawing I have had made of it, when compared with another drawing taken not long after Hunter's death, and now in the possession of the Royal College of Surgeons, shows no very important change. The Lions' Den, of which I have also had a faithful copy taken, is still in good preservation, and Mrs. Hunter's boudoir retains all its original character, as she, the accomplished authoress of the well-known song,—