The Creevey Papers
Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 7 September 1834
“7th.
“. . . The dicky-bird failed me at Rogers’s—a cold in her pipe kept her at home; so we
had only Essex, his daughter,
Mrs. Ford, Miss
Rogers and Tommy Moore,
of whose melodies I had rather more than enough.”
Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
Irish poet and biographer, author of the
Irish Melodies (1807-34),
The Fudge Family in Paris (1818), and
Lalla
Rookh (1817); he was Byron's close friend and designated biographer.
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).
Sarah Rogers (1772-1855)
Of Regent's Park. the younger sister of the poet Samuel Rogers; she lived with her
brother Henry in Highbury Terrace.
