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NOTES ON CUNNINGHAM'S HANDBOOK FOR LONDON
By EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.
*Soho Square.*—Your correspondent "NASO" (p. 244.) has anticipated me in noticing Mr. Cunningham's mistake about Mrs. Cornellys' house in this square; but he has left unnoticed some particulars which deserve to be recorded. Mrs. Cornellys', or *Carlisle House* as it was called, was pulled down at the beginning of the present century (1803 or 1804), and *two* houses built upon its site, now *Jeffery's Music Warehouse* and *Weston's Printing Office*. Some curious old paintings representing banqueting scenes, formerly in *Carlisle House* were carefully preserved until the last few years, in the d…
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Locations: Soho Square, Carlisle House, Sutton Street, St. Ann, Soho, The London Gazette, St. Martin's Lane, Carlisle Street, Catherine Street, Strand, St. Mary, Savoy, Maiden Lane, Covent Garden