Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries
Vol. II Contents
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CONTENTS
OF
THE SECOND VOLUME.
CHAPTER I.
1828-1830.
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The Second Part of ‘Italy’—Rogers makes a Bonfire of both
Parts—The Illustrated ‘Italy’—Cost of the
Engravings—The Artists and Engravers—The Outlay and Return—The
Illustrated Poems—Turner and
Stothard’s Remuneration—The Balance-sheet—Letter
from Wordsworth—Wordsworth,
Moore, Scott, and Rogers
at Hampton—Fenimore Cooper—Catherine
Fanshawe—Uvedale Price—A Political Letter
of Rogers’s—Death of Daniel
Rogers—Lamb’s Sonnet—Samuel
Rogers to his Sister-in-law—The Poet
Crowe—Rogers and T.
Moore—Rogers and Sir P.
Francis—R. B. Haydon’s Appeal—Letters
from Wordsworth—From W. Stewart
Rose—Washington Irving—Samuel
Rogers to his Sister in Paris—Lord St. Helens,
Lord Ashburnham, Charles Lamb,
Wordsworth, William Roscoe, Lord
Dudley, Lord Holland, and Sir Walter
Scott
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CHAPTER II.
1831-1834.
Rogers and Wellington and
Talleyrand—Rogers and
Macaulay—Death of Mrs.
Siddons—Letters from Wordsworth, Henry
Hallam, and
Brougham—Campbell and ‘The Metropolitan’—Rogers and
Earl Grey—Mrs. Joanna
Baillie—Death of Mackintosh and of Walter
Scott—Moore on
Rogers’s House—Death of Henry
Rogers—Letters from Charles Lamb,
Wordsworth,
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Macaulay—Rogers’s Tour—Letters
to Wordsworth, Sarah Rogers, and
Richard Sharp—Richard Sharp on
Ministerial Changes—Rogers and the Gossip at
Brooks’s—The King and his Ministers—’ The Queen has done it
all’—Lord Brougham’s Eccentricities—Letter
from Campbell
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CHAPTER III.
1834-1837.
Public Affairs in 1834—Deaths of Coleridge and
Lamb—Moore’s
Diary—Crabb Robinson and Wordsworth at
Rogers’s—Last Letter to R.
Sharp—R. Sharp’s
Death—Wordsworth upon him—Rogers
to his Sister—Wordsworth’s
Letters—Ticknor’s
Diary—Rogers’s Reputation for
Cynicism—Rogers and
Campbell—Rogers and
Turner—Rogers’s Bitter
Sayings—Jokes of his Friends against him—
The Quarterly Review on his Appearance—Letter of the
Duchess of
Sutherland—Wordsworth—Rogers
at Broadstairs—Crabb Robinson’s
Diary—Moore’s Diary—Washington
Irving—Wordsworth’s
Letter—Sir H.
Taylor—Moore’s Diary
again—Rogers at Broadstairs and Paris—Mrs.
Butler’s Recollections—Crabb
Robinson’s—Moore’s—A Whig
Conclave at Bowood—Haydon
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CHAPTER IV.
1838-1841.
Rogers an Old Man—His active
Habits—Carlyle on
Rogers—Rogers’s Criticism of
Emerson—Mr. P. Goodall’s
Recollections of Rogers—Ticknor’s
Visits to St. James’s Place—Sir H. Taylor, Miss
Jervis, and the Duke—Letter from
Ticknor—Rogers at Broadstairs—Appeals to
Lord Melbourne and Lord Holland for
Cary—Charles Sumner on
Rogers—Miss
Edgeworth—Lord
Wellesley—Archbishop
Trench—Daniel Webster—Mrs.
Butler—Sydney Smith—Blanco
White—Charles
Dickens—Haydon—W. H.
Prescott—Daniel Webster’s
Letters—Ticknor’s Letters—Charles
Mackay—Macready—Crabb
Robinson—Letter from Dickens—Death of
Lord Holland—Moore and
Rogers at Bowood—Macready’s
‘Reminiscences’—Rogers
in Paris—E. Quillinan on Sir T.
More’s House—Rogers and
Macaulay at Bowood—Rogers and
Mrs. Butler
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CHAPTER V.
1842-1844.
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Mr. Everett—Letters from Charles Dickens
and Mrs. Dickens, and Sydney
Smith—Sumner introduces
Longfellow—Lady Russell’s
jeu d’esprit—Rogers’s
Conversation—Recollections of it by Henry Sharpe—Lines by
Lady Dufferin—Death of Sutton Sharpe,
Q.C.—Lord Dalling on Talleyrand and
Danton—Letters from Dickens and
Thackeray—Southey’s
Death—Wordsworth as Laureate—Judge
Haliburton—Miss Edgeworth and
Rogers on a Line of
Pope’s—Letters from Prescott,
Sumner, and Sir Henry
Ellis—Dickens’s ‘Christmas Carol’—The late Dean Burgon in
1844—Lord Howden’s Letters—The Dissenters’
Chapels Bill—Rogers to his Sister—Letter from Italy by
Charles Dickens—The ‘Marriage Brokers’ of
Genoa—Rogers at Bowood—The Bank Robbery—Offers
of Friends—Letters from E. Everett, Lord
Lansdowne, Sydney Smith, and Lady
Grey—Rogers to his Sister—Further
Recollections of an Old Man’s Talk
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CHAPTER VI.
1845, 1846, WITH GLANCES BACK TO 1840-1842.
Death of Sydney Smith, of
‘Bobus’ Smith, of Lord Grey, of
Lady Holland—A Letter of Lady
Holland’s—Rogers’s View of
Lady Holland—Mrs. Kemble’s
Recollections’—Rogers and Mrs.
Grote—Sydney Smith on Rogers—Letter from
Edward Everett—An Autumn in
Paris—Rogers and Mrs. Forster—The
Political Crisis in 1845—Rogers and Lord
Grey—Rogers and Mr. and Mrs.
Dickens—Letters from Edward Everett and
Charles Sumner—Rogers’s Portrait
at Harvard—Rogers and Mrs.
Norton—Letters from Mrs.
Norton—Brougham’s
Correspondence—Mr. Ruskin and
Rogers—Mr. Ruskin on Venice
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CHAPTER VII.
1847-1850.
Dr. Mackay’s ‘Breakfasts with Samuel
Rogers’—Moore’s last Visit to
London—Death of Dora Quillinan—Death of the
Archbishop of York—The Flaxman
Gallery—Letter from Crabb Robinson
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—The Grand Duke of Weimar at
Rogers’s—Letters from Daniel
Webster, Edward Everett, Mr.
Ruskin, Bernard Barton, and
Wordsworth—Correspondence with Peel,
Hayward, John Forster, and
Tennyson—Letter from Lord
Brougham—An Old Man’s Talk at Broadstairs—Crabb
Robinson on the Flaxman Gallery—Charles
Dickens on Brighton—Lord Carlisle on
Rogers—Introduction for M. Drouyn de
l’Huys—Letters from Wm. H. Prescott,
Edward Everett, George Ticknor, and
Lord Glenelg—Death of Lord
Jeffrey—Wordsworth’s Death—Letters
from Charles Dickens, Lord Brougham, and
George Bancroft
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CHAPTER VIII.
1850.
The Laureateship—Letter from Prince
Albert—Lord John Russell on
Tennyson—Rogers’s
Accident—He is lamed for Life—Lord Brougham’s
Letters on Public Affairs—Death of Sir R. Peel—Further
Letters from Lord Brougham—Letters from Lady
Russell, Hallam, Empson,
Mr. Ruskin, Mrs. Jameson, E.
Everett, and Sir H.
Holland—Rogers to the Bishop of London on his
Accident—Signs of Decline—Letters from Lady Morgan,
Lady Emily Pusey, Sir Charles Napier,
Lord Brougham, and E. Everett
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CHAPTER IX.
The Great Exhibition—Sir B.
Brodie—Rogers and
Macready—Sir E. Bulwer Lytton,
Lord John Russell, Crabb Robinson,
Mrs. Gladstone, Lord Denman, Lord
Glenelg—Lord Brougham’s Letters on Public
Affairs—Kenney—Barbara
Godfrey—Lady Herschel—Lady
Campbell (Pamela)—Rogers as
a Letter-writer—Lady Morgan—Mrs. Tom
Moore—Moore’s Death—Letter from
John Forster—Mrs.
Grote—Luttrell’s
Death—Turner’s Death—Sir C.
Eastlake on Turner’s Will—Lines on the
Hon. George Denman’s Marriage—Letter of Lord
Brougham—Rogers to Lord John
Russell on a Volume of Manuscript Poems
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CHAPTER X.
1852-1855.
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Fables about Rogers’s Wealth—Appeals for
his Patronage—Mr. Hayward’s Estimate of him—His
Kindness to Servants—Friends of later Years—Miss Coutts on
Joanna Baillie’s Death—Tom Taylor
on the Duke of Wellington—Lord
Brougham—Death of Empson—Lord
Glenelg—Lord John Russell’s ‘Memoirs of Moore’—Lady John
Russell—Mrs. Sigourney—Other American
Friends—Lord Shaftesbury—Mrs. Carrick
Moore—The Napier Family—Lord
Brougham—Rogers and Lord
Denman—Lord Denman’s
Death—Lord Brougham on France—Lady
Ely—Lady Emily Pusey—Failure of
Rogers’s Memory—Death of William
Maltby—The Bishop of Durham—Mr.
Everett’s, Lady Ely’s, and Lord
Brougham’s last Letters—Death of Sarah
Rogers—The Closing Scene—Hornsey Churchyard
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