I HOPED R.
would like his Sonnet, but I fear’d S. that fine old man, might not quite
like the turn of it. This last was penn’d almost literally extempore.
Your Laureat.
Is S.’s Christian name
Thomas? if not, correct it.
Samuel Rogers (1763-1855)
English poet, banker, and aesthete, author of the ever-popular Pleasures of Memory (1792), Columbus (1810), Jaqueline (1814), and Italy (1822-28).
Thomas Stothard (1755-1834)
English painter and book-illustrator, a friend of John Flaxman and Samuel Rogers.
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Authors:
Charles Lamb; Mary Lamb
Title:The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905).
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Series: Lord Byron and his Times: http://lordbyron.org
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