Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries
Edward Everett to Samuel Rogers, 30 June 1847
‘Cambridge: 30th June, 1847.
‘My dear and kind Friend,—When you know the
gentleman who offers you this note, you will excuse me for again taking the
liberty of addressing to you a letter of recommendation. Mr. Hillard is one of our best scholars, best
writers, and best men. A lawyer by profession, there is as sweet an Ovid lost in him as in ![]()
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Murray. He has lately been lecturing before the Lowell
Institute, to admiring audiences of 2,000, on the life and times of Milton. Does not this give him a right to see
the assignment of “Paradise
Lost”? But what I most wish is that he should see you, and communicate to you, vivâ
voce, the assurance of our unaltered and most affectionate regard.
Mr. Hillard is the professional associate of Mr. Charles Sumner, and well known to all
your American friends, at least in New England. Harding has got home, but I hear nothing from him.
‘Adieu, dear Mr.
Rogers. Let me at least once a year see a few lines of that
beautiful writing of yours, though I do not need it to keep you constantly in
the most cherished recollection.
‘Semper et totus tuus,
‘May I ask you to make our kindest remembrances to
Miss Rogers?’
Edward Everett (1794-1865)
American statesman educated at Harvard College; he was editor of the
North American Review (1820-24), ambassador to Great Britain (1841-45), president
of Harvard (1846-49).
Chester Harding (1792-1866)
Massachusetts portrait-painter who studied in Paris and worked in London 1823-26.
George Stillman Hillard (1808-1879)
Harvard-educated American lawyer and man of letters; the friend of Charles Sumner and
Nathaniel Hawthorne, he published
Six Months in Italy (1853).
John Milton (1608-1674)
English poet and controversialist; author of
Comus (1634),
Lycidas (1638),
Areopagitica (1644),
Paradise Lost (1667), and other works.
Ovid (43 BC-17 AD c.)
Roman poet famous for his erotic
Art of Love and his mythological
poem,
The Metamorphoses.
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).
Charles Richard Sumner, bishop of Winchester (1790-1874)
The younger brother of John Bird Sumner, archbishop of Canterbury; he was educated at
Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge; he was bishop of Llandaff and dean of St. Paul's
(1826) and bishop of Winchester (1827).
Charles Sumner (1811-1874)
American statesman; he was educated at Harvard and spent two years traveling in Europe
before making his reputation as an abolitionist senator from Massachusetts.
