Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries
Samuel Rogers to Sydney Smith, 13 April 1842
‘My dear Sydney,—A thousand and a thousand thanks for the three volumes. I need not say
how welcome they are to me, for whenever I open them I shall, I am very sure,
be the better for them, and I shall hear, too, the voice of a very old and dear
friend. Every leaf when I turn it will recall what I felt on a first perusal,
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and many of them will bring back to my mind the
pleasant hours we have spent together with those who are gone.
‘13th April, 1842.’
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).
Sydney Smith (1771-1845)
Clergyman, wit, and one of the original projectors of the
Edinburgh
Review; afterwards lecturer in London and one of the Holland House
denizens.