Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries
Elizabeth Bridget Armistead Fox to Samuel Rogers, [April 1805]
‘My dear Sir,—If you can find time any evening
before half-past ten to call here, I am sure Mr.
Fox will be very happy to see you, as he has very often wished
to do, particularly since he has been ill. He is now, thank God, better, but
indeed, my dear Mr. Rogers, I have been
very wretched for some days. Pray come soon, as I know he will enjoy seeing
you.
‘Yours very truly,
‘Stable Yard, Saturday.’
Charles James Fox (1749-1806)
Whig statesman and the leader of the Whig opposition in Parliament after his falling-out
with Edmund Burke.
Elizabeth Bridget Armistead Fox [née Cane] (1750-1842)
English courtesan who succeeded Mary Robinson in the affections of the Prince of Wales;
she was secretly married to Charles James Fox in 1795; the marriage was publicly
acknowledged in 1802.
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).