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Title: Chelsea
The Fascination of London

Author: G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton

Editor: Sir Walter Besant

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The Fascination of London

CHELSEA

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_IN THIS SERIES._

Cloth, price 1s. 6d. net; leather, price 2s. net, each.

CHELSEA.

By G. E. MITTON. Edited by Sir WALTER BESANT.

WESTMINSTER.

By Sir WALTER BESANT and G. E. MITTON.

THE STRAND DISTRICT.

By Sir WALTER BESANT and G. E. MITTON.

HAMPSTEAD.

By G. E. MITTON. Edited by Sir WALTER BESANT.

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[Illustration: CHELSEA OLD CHURCH.

After an etching by Miss E. Piper.]

The Fascination of London

CHELSEA

by

G. E. MITTON

Edited by Sir Walter Besant

London
Adam & Charles Black
1902

PREFATORY NOTE

A survey of London, a record of the greatest of all cities, that should
preserve her history, her historical and literary associations, her
mighty buildings, past and present, a book that should comprise all that
Londoners love, all that they ought to know of their heritage from the
past--this was the work on which Sir Walter Besant was engaged when he
died.

As he himself said of it: "This work fascinates me more than anything
else I've ever done. Nothing at all like it has ever been attempted
before. I've been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I
find something fresh in it every day."

He had seen one at least of his dreams realized in t