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Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries
Frederick Grey to Samuel Rogers, 17 July 1845
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: 17th July, 1845; Thursday night.

‘My dear Mr. Rogers,—Your long friendship with my father and your kindness to myself make it my painful
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duty to announce to you his death. He was, after being better on Monday than for some time previous, suddenly attacked by inflammation in the left arm on Tuesday morning. It soon proved to be erysipelas, and his strength rapidly gave way under the attack, and a little after eight this evening he breathed his last. He did not appear to suffer at all. Howick and myself arrived at two o’clock, but he was already so exhausted as to be scarcely, if at all, conscious of our presence. My mother was with him to the last and bore up wonderfully, and I trust she may have strength sufficient to support her.

‘Believe me, my dear Mr. Rogers,

‘Yours most sincerely,
‘Fred. Wm. Grey.’