“. . . After our dinner at Fergy’s, Lord Sefton made me go with him to the opera . . . . From the Opera House we went to Crockford’s new concern, which is magnificent and perfect in taste and beauty. For a suite of rooms, it is the greatest lion in England, and is said by those who know the palace at Versailles to be even more magnificent than that. . . . After breakfast this morning I sallied forth to see the alterations in St. James’s Park, and they are really great improvements, but the new palace* still remains the devil’s own. . . . Grey is quite satisfied with the Beau, and says he will do capitally in the Lords as Minister.”
