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Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries
Samuel Rogers to Sarah Rogers, [21 October 1834]
INTRODUCTION & INDEXES
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Preface
Vol. I Contents
Chapter I. 1803-1805.
Chapter II. 1805-1809.
Chapter III. 1810-1812.
Chapter IV. 1813-1814.
Chapter V. 1814-1815.
Chapter VI. 1815-1816.
Chapter VII. 1816-1818.
Chapter VIII. 1818-19.
Chapter IX. 1820-1821.
Chapter X. 1822-24.
Chapter XI. 1825-1827.
Vol. II Contents
Chapter I. 1828-1830.
Chapter II. 1831-34.
Chapter III. 1834-1837.
Chapter IV. 1838-41.
Chapter V. 1842-44.
Chapter VI. 1845-46.
Chapter VII. 1847-50.
Chapter VIII. 1850
Chapter IX. 1851.
Chapter X. 1852-55.
Index
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‘Howick House: Tuesday [21st Oct. 1834],

‘My dear Sarah,—Your kind letter came just after Patty had sent me her namesake’s. I write to thank you, but I have nothing to say—for we go on in one monotonous way here. Before breakfast I lounge a little, all alone, in a very pretty flower garden; then come many newspapers, but not much talk, as the family is rather silent, and there are no visitors but Lord John Russell and Lady Russell, who came here on Thursday last for a fortnight. On Saturday next I think of going for two nights to Lady Mary Monck; on Monday and on Thursday to the Archbishop of York; and on the Saturday afterwards to Castle Howard. I have not yet proposed myself to them, but I must, having left them so abruptly before, when, in the North with Sir George Beaumont, I broke a tooth and hurried to town, as Patty has done, for repair. Here I am left much to myself—my foot is certainly much better, though I cannot stir without binding, which Reece and I manage together pretty well. For the last three or four days I have had a sore throat and a little bile, but am getting better with abstinence. There is a very pretty walk from the house through a deep, woody glen by a brook-side, that brings you out on the sea beach, and the garden and the shrubberies are most luxuriant. It is an inland place by the seaside.
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At Chillingham it is wilder and more mountainous, and the wild cattle, as white as snow, in herds at a distance, add to the wildness. I paid them a visit on a pony, but they would not let us approach them. What will become of me, when I leave York, I cannot say. I have certainly a great desire to see Liverpool and the railroad, as you have done, and I have little chance of coming this way again, but I am very anxious to get homeward, as I feel queerish, and should not like to be ill from home. Nothing would delight me more than to join you at Stourbridge, if you remained there, but I fear, indeed I know, I cannot well contrive it. Farewell, my dear Sarah—I have talked too much about myself, and you must be well tired of me. My love to all. I have never thanked young Tom for his landscape, or, rather, his seascape. Pray thank him for me, I think it wonderful, and if I had done it I should have been as vain as possible.

‘Ever yours,
‘S. R.

‘Pray direct to me under cover to the Earl of Carlisle, Castle Howard, York.’