Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries
Samuel Rogers to Sarah Rogers, 25 August [1844]
‘Dropmore, Beaconsfield: Sunday, 25th Aug. [1844].
‘My dear Sarah,—I left Mincham last Wednesday, and hope to be at home
on Tuesday. You must have seen Lady Essex,
for she is at a loss what to do next, and wishes much to consult you. I wrote
to you before I left home, and I wrote to you a long letter last Friday,
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but it was intrusted to a private hand and lost on the
road. You may have returned home and left it for aught I know. Cary’s death1 and
Madge’s marriage2 are the only events. I have heard to-day from Henry at
Broadstairs and I should like to find myself there.
‘Yours ever,
‘S. R.’
Henry Francis Cary (1772-1844)
English poet; he was assistant-keeper of printed books at the British Museum (1826) and
translator of Dante (1805-19).
Thomas Madge (1786-1870)
Unitarian minister; born at Plymouth, he was assistant to Thomas Belsham at Essex Street
Chapel, London (1825) and published sermons.
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).
Sarah Rogers (1772-1855)
Of Regent's Park. the younger sister of the poet Samuel Rogers; she lived with her
brother Henry in Highbury Terrace.