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Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries
Bernard Barton to Samuel Rogers, 3 February 1848
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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‘My hand hath lost its cunning,
My eyes are growing dim,
So my Muse’s fount stops running,
With this tiny Birthday hymn.
‘Woodbridge: 3rd Feb., 1848.

‘My dear Friend,—Thy praise nearly forty years ago reconciled me to my first poetical efforts. Do I hope too much in desiring to obtain it for what may prove my last? I expect I shall provoke a smile from thee in
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talking of old age at sixty-four; but forty years of clerkship and hardship joined together have well-nigh used me up and worn me out.

‘Believe me ever respectfully thine,

‘B. Barton.’