‘My dear Mr.
Rogers,—If you should ever have inclination and patience
to read the accompanying little book, I hope you will like the slight fancy it embodies. But
whether you do or no, I am ever,
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
English novelist, author of David Copperfield and Great Expectations.
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).