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Matthew Arnold, who made his name as a social and political critic as much as a poet and literary critic, lived at 2 Chester Square from 1858 until 1868. He described the house as ‘a very small one, but it will be something to unpack one’s portmanteau for the first time since I was married, now nearly seven years ago’. Here, he writes to his elder sister ‘K’ (Mrs Forster), his youngest sister Fan (Miss Arnold) and his friend Wyndham Slade...