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Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries
Catherine Smith to Samuel Rogers, [October 1844]
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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‘I cannot resist sending it to you, dear Mr. Rogers—

‘“I think you very fortunate, my dear Lady Holland, in having Rogers at Rome. Shew me a more kind and friendly man; secondly, one from good manners, knowledge, fun, taste, and observation more agreeable; thirdly, a man of more strict political integrity, and of better character in private life. If I were to choose any Englishman in foreign parts whom I should wish to blunder upon, it should be Rogers.”—Sydney Smith.

‘Praise is sweet, but when it comes from one not too
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prodigal of it, though always just to give it where due, it is worth reading.

‘Most affectionately yours,
‘C. A. S.’