HCR diary 6.1.1822 Mrs Basil Montagu "related to me a romantic incident in the life of Mrs Ponsford - She was a painter by profession and painted many years ago a picture of her Mrs A" (Robinson clearly means Mrs M) "and a child - it was entitled "A Widow and her Child". This picture caught the eye of a rich woman - a Mrs Clarke - who was possessed independently of her husband of £15,000 - which she was resolved he should not have. Mrs C: instantly determined to give this £15,000 to the widow - and for that purpose called on the artist Miss Smith.

HCR diary 10.12.1820 Mrs Basil Montagu on Mrs Aders' indiscretions "She knows too that Mrs Aders has visited at Mr Meux's when a woman of infamous character was there, she has been known to cut a stranger in the presence of Carlisle!!"

Crabb Robinson's exclamation marks were probably aimed at Mrs Montagu's thinking it such a sin. Thomas Carlyle (DNB 1795-1881) was a friend of Mrs Montagu's, he referred to her as "the noble lady"

HCR diary 18.12.1820 Mrs Aders talking about her father John Raphael Smith "Chantry she says owed evrything to Mr S: It was Smith who discovered him at Sheffield where he was an apprentice to a carver and gilder. S: persuaded his master to allow him time and opportunity to draw. Chantry came to town in extreme poverty - S: gave him money - to make him known S: caused him to make a bust of himself - then introduced him to Horne Tooke and so amde him known.

HCR diary 13.12.1820 after Flaxman's "left this party to join a far less interesting one at the Baldwin's Queen Square - a genteel set" Chalmers, biographer there, no other literary persons

Alexander Chalmers (DNB 1759-1834)

HCR diary 7.2.1821 "went to tea at Aders's - there were there 4 young ladies Miss   daughters of an engraver dressed as smart as dolls and their limbs as stiff. They spoiled the evening for they gave me the company feeling & brought with them none of the company advantages"

                 30.4.1822 "went to Aders - it being Ellen's birthday. The Cardons were there" "I had a little ennuie, not usual in that house"

HCR diary 24.11.1821 at Aders' "a Mr Campe an Elberfelder - an intimate of A's in particular pleased me by his great kindness of manner & amiable countenance without the too frequent accompaniment of want of understanding - he has had a commercial education by residence in England and has now a flourishing establishment at home"

Possibly H W Campe wool merchant at 22 (Little) Bush Lane, Cannon St from 1820 to 1825 (Land Tax, SunFire 1822, Pigot's Directory 1822) but I found no more about him

HCR diary 12.3.1832 "went to Aders - I found several persons there and aqmongst others Thomas Campbell the poet - I was not prepossessed in his favour and he did not gain upon me during the time we chatted, not that he was discourteous - on the contrary he was very civil - or assuming. But I did not like his face or the style or the tone of his conversation"

Thomas Campbell (DNB 1777-1844)

HCR diary 9.7.1823 Miss Hays living at Vanbrugh Castle, Greenwich where a Mrs Browne keeps a school

HCR diary 24.4.1823 after Montagu Kelly, Mrs Aders' first husband, came "in a drunken fit and demanded his daughter" to the Aders' house, Charles Aders "had spoken to a Mr Cameron, an attorney his friend, but he wished me to attend also". "Mr A:'s servant has since told me that Mr Cameron whispered to" (the sitting magistrate) "that it was a family matter". Kelly was fined five shillings for getting drunk, and dismissed. "Mr Cameron injudiciously desired" (Kelly) "to speak to an attorney, when he proposed speaking to C: himself"

HCR diary 10.12.1825 "I had a message from Alliston's clerk that an undefended action would come on that day in which I was engaged with Justice - Drove down in alarm but found the case far enough off"

John Alliston & George Hundleby (QV*) attorneys 2 Freeman's Court, Cornhill (Law List 1825). John Alliston was articled to Thomas Ashfield (Common Pleas 1797) and did much conveyancing work. His will PCC 1855 of Warnford Ct, Throgmorton St. He was buried at Kensal Green cemetery on 26.5.1855 from 21 Suffolk St, Pall Mall age 74