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Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries
Lord Holland to Samuel Rogers, July 1821
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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‘July, 1821.

‘Dear Rogers,—I hear with great pain that you have been seriously ill. I hope that it is one of those many reports invented, or at least augmented, by distance, but I cannot but be uneasy till we hear from you, especially as your neither coming here nor writing seems to confirm the rumour. The Court here affect to speak

1 From Rogers’s poem, ‘A Wish,’ beginning ‘Mine be a cot beside the hill.’ The lines are—

‘And Lucy at her wheel shall sing
In russet gown and apron blue.’
LADY HOLLAND AND NAPOLEON309
of the great man they dreaded and persecuted, with tenderness and even admiration—L[ouis] XVIII. is no Cæsar, but—
‘Cæsar would weep, the crocodile would weep,
To see his rival of the universe
Lie still and peaceful there.

‘I need not tell you how gratified (even in her grief at the loss, or rather death of such a man) Lady H. was at his recollection of her.

‘“L’Empereur Napoleon à Lady Holland: témoignage de satisfaction et d’estime,” were the words, and remarkably well chosen. Write me word how you are.

‘Excuse hurry, which you know the idleness of Paris always produces.

‘My Lady’s love.

‘Yours,
‘Vassall Holland.’