Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries
Lord Brougham to Samuel Rogers, 16 January 1855
‘Brougham: 16th January, 1855.
‘My dear R.,—Lady
Jersey is desirous you should know how grateful poor Bayly is for your great kindness. He says,
“particularly Mr. Rogers, on whom
I had no kind of claim.” You are, indeed, the only benefactor whom he
specially names.
‘I have been here a month, and though it is the depth
of winter, I have seen but one day of cold; the rest were dark enough, with a
hurricane or two of wind, but mild.
‘I hope you have had as tolerable a winter in the
South.1
‘Believe me, most sincerely yours,
Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797-1839)
English poet, playwright, and novelist; several of his songs were frequently reprinted;
he published
Weeds of Witchery (1835).
Henry Peter Brougham, first baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868)
Educated at Edinburgh University, he was a founder of the
Edinburgh
Review in which he chastised Byron's
Hours of Idleness; he
defended Queen Caroline in her trial for adultery (1820), established the London University
(1828), and was appointed lord chancellor (1830).
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).