Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries
Samuel Rogers to Maria Edgeworth, 2 March 1839
‘My dear Miss
Edgeworth,—Not relying on myself, I have put the question,
as far as I could, to the London
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world; and the votes are
one and all, as you knew they would be, for
‘Are you to learn of us, you who have taught us all how
to speak and how to write? And are we never to. see you here again? If you
don’t come soon I shall not be to be found; but wherever I am, in this
world or another, I hope I shall never forget your kindness.
‘Your affectionate Friend,
‘2nd March, 1839.’
Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849)
Irish novelist; author of
Castle Rackrent (1800)
Belinda (1801),
The Absentee (1812) and
Ormond (1817).
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).