Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries
Earl Grey to Samuel Rogers, 31 December 1845
‘Howick: 31st Dec., 1845.
‘My dear Mr.
Rogers,—I am exceedingly obliged to you for your very kind
note, which I have received this evening. I cannot tell you how great a
satisfaction it is to me to find that amidst the general censure which I have
drawn down upon myself by doing what was very painful to me, but what I
believed to be my duty, I am supported by the approbation of a person for whose
judgment I have so much respect and on whose good opinion I set so high a
value.
‘Believe me, yours most truly,
Henry George Grey, third earl Grey (1802-1894)
The son of the second earl; he was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge and was a Whig
MP (1826-45) when he succeeded his father. He was secretary for the colonies
(1846-52).
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).