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Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries
Lord Brougham to Samuel Rogers, [1850]
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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‘Brougham:’ Monday [1850].

‘My dear R.,—Since I received yours I have no news, except that Lady Malet came down, having called, but not being let in. Lady Jersey is over in Germany on a king-hunting excursion; she goes to Hanover, Berlin, and Weimar. Madame Bury’s book, “Germania,” is very clever, but she also is a king-hunter and an ultra legitimist. Her hatred of the new and ridiculous republic has driven her (as is the way of women) into the opposite extreme.

‘“Young Italy,” by Baillie Cochrane, is clever and really not ill written. He came with his nice wife (D. of Rutland’s granddaughter) to see me at Cannes. So he
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must needs call me Lælius 1 in his book. I knew I was wise, but not exactly that my wisdom was so meek as Horace describes—
‘Mitis sapientia Læli.
Lady Williams passed here the other day, but had a sketching niece, who took her soon away to Keswick, where they have seen only rain to draw. Here we have had vile and cold weather. Consider well your movements, of which I before wrote.

‘Yours ever truly,
‘H. Brougham.’