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Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries
Lord Holland to Samuel Rogers, [1818]
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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‘Dear Rogers,—I send you my promised letter under a cover to Colonel Bunbury, who will transmit it to you. It was, indeed, necessary to convey it gratis; at least, it
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would have been unpardonable to make you pay for such nonsense. As it is, my presumption is not small in submitting so crude a rhapsody to you, who, with a fertile invention, have the good sense of subjecting it always to the control of a severe judgment and a correct taste, but qu’yfaire, when one is full of a thing, one must write it, and when one has written it, one must show it within twenty-four hours or not at all. I had promised you the dissertation. If I keep it till to-morrow I shall never let you see it, and up to this time I am under the illusion of thinking it all perfection.

‘I have no other copy of it, so pray preserve the precious MS., as I should like to shew it to my uncle Ossory and my sister.

‘Yours,
‘Vassall Holland.’