‘My dear Mr.
Rogers,—I only returned to town on Monday, and to wait on
you to-morrow will be the first, as it is always the happiest, of my duties. I
have been where
‘The squirrel leaps from tree to tree,
And shells his nuts at liberty;
not even then without regretful thoughts of the better freedom of
“St. James’s Grove at blush of day.”—Ever my dear Sir,
believe me faithfully and respectfully yours,
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).
John Ruskin (1819-1900)
Art critic and social reformer; he published Modern Painters, 5
vols (1843-60) and The Stones of Venice (1851-53).
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Author: Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902
Title:Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889).
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