Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries
William Empson to Samuel Rogers, 16 June [1850]
‘E.I.C.: 16th June [1850].
‘My dear Friend,—Your accident has grieved us very
much. Lady Rolfe and Mr. Moxon and other friends to whom I have
applied assure me that you are doing well. God grant it be so! Those pleasant
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night-time, which I have so
often had with you and—in his London days—with Jeffrey!
‘You will like to know that my wife keeps well, in spite of a sick nursery.
She desires to be most kindly remembered to you, and I am always your much
obliged and most affectionate
Charlotte Empson [née Jeffrey] (1814-June 1897)
The daughter of Francis Jeffrey who in 1838 married his successor at the
Edinburgh Review, William Empson.
William Empson (1791-1852)
Educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Cambridge, he succeeded Sir James Mackintosh
as professor of law at the East India College, Haileybury. He wrote for the
Edinburgh Review, of which he became editor in 1847.
Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey (1773-1850)
Scottish barrister, Whig MP, and co-founder and editor of the
Edinburgh
Review (1802-29). As a reviewer he was the implacable foe of the Lake School of
poetry.
Edward Moxon (1801-1858)
Poet and bookseller; after employment at Longman and Company he set up in 1830 with
financial assistance from Samuel Rogers and became the leading publisher of literary
poetry.
Lady Laura Rolfe [née Carr] (1807-1868)
The daughter of Thomas Carr of Frognal, Hampstead; in 1845 she married Robert Monsey
Rolfe, baron Cranworth. She was an acquaintance of Samuel Rogers.
