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Passing from one gallery to another we saw many fine works. Amongst them a splendid marine by Vandervelde extremely well painted. A landscape by Guyp, which father afterwards thought the finest work in the whole collection It is about eighteen inches square. The subject is a sunset with a large group of trees and some figures in the foreground. and a very fine landscape by Berglum of a distant mountain, with a bridge and river, on the shore of which is an old castle, and some figures in the foreground. There are two fine large marines by Vanderveld, and a picture of a man with a violin, by [Gherard?] Dowe, finished to the utmost extent, as much as would seem possible in oil paint. And a large picture of soldiers insulting Charles the First, while a prisoner, by Paul De La Roche and a great marine in oil by Turner, a storm and ship wreck, which we thought very grand. After spending about two hours looking at the pictures we came away, much 

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pleased. On our way home we inquired about lodging at a house in St. James's place, and found the terms of 25 shillings per week, but did not engage. In the evening Lilly went shopping for her doll baby, and got some stained silk, and a parcel of other duds. 11th. Father went to get a ticket to see the collection which we saw yesterday, again, but was too early, so he stepped in to the exhibition sketches and drawings by English artists, and got so interested that it was time for him to come home before he was aware. He got a season ticket for us all, to this exhibition. In the afternoon Father and mother got a ticket, and saw the Bridgwater collection again and were as much pleased as before. They engaged lodgings at a Mrs. Walker's No. 8 Cleveland Row, near St. James's palace. 12th. Sunday. Read and wrote in the forenoon. In the afternoon we took a walk through Regent's Park, passing through Hyde Park on the way. This latter is a fine large