JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
I was doing a little reading on Mr. Milton’s version of “Chaos” in Paradise Lost, the great something-in-the-non-nothingness and source of creation, and bumped into this interesting factoid on one of his residences. John Milton lived in a house in Westminster, in the 1650’s, a house that would later become #19 York Street. Later on this same address property would be occupied by Jeremy Bentham, James Mill, John Stuart Mill, and William Hazlitt. And for some reason the property was demolished in 1877, taking away its memories and legacies. No disrespect to the 19 York Streets elsewhere (for example in Sulon Maine; Florence S.C., Gettysburg P.A., Watheroo, W.A., Oatlands N.S.W.) but I rather think that it would have been nice for this #19 to have survived.
The view of the house from the rear, plus cat:
Image via Wikipedia Commons.