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The hotel was considered one of the best in London:

'a standard model of what the highest class of Family Hotel should be. Outside it is only a handsome range of buildings; inside it has costly and luxurious suites of rooms. The ventilation is perfectly arranged, and, though there is a constant current of air through all the building from basement to roof, the Hotel is always kept at a mild and equal temperature by hot-air pipes along each corridor, and leading into every apartment. Lifts communicate with each floor, so as to render every story complete in itself, with its service-room and heating apparatus, for serving dinners on the various landings. The entire structure is as perfectly fire-proof as the use of stone and brick along all the yam-ions stairways and corridors can make it.' Timbs, John (1867). Curiosities of London, J. C. Hotton, London. 912 pp.

'close to Buckingham Palace, quiet and well-managed, for families and gentlemen, very select.' Handbook to London As It Is, 1879, John Murray, London. 432 pp.

'just opposite the great ballroom window of Buckingham Palace'. Dickens, Charles (junior) (1879), Dickens's Dictionary of London, Charles Dickens and Evans, London. 352 pp.

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