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Cheyne Row
Chelsea. (SW3) Said to be named from a Lord of the Manor of Chelsea, Viscount Cheyne. Here for many years resided one of Britain's deepest and sincerest thinkers, Thomas Carlyle. His house is about the middle, numbered 24 (formerly 5) . Beneath a medallion portrait on the wall is inscribed "Thomas Carlyle lived at 24, Cheyne Row, 1834-81." The house has been acquired by trustees and is open to anyone on the payment of one shilling. It contains various Carlylean relies, and attracts visitors from all parts of the world. Here came to see him Leigh Hunt, who lived only in the next street, and Emerson from across the Atlantic. (Chelsea, G. E. Mitton, ed. Besant, p. 35)
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