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Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries
Daniel Webster to Samuel Rogers, 25 May 1840
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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‘Washington: 25th May, 1840.

‘My dear Sir,—Some time in August I hope this letter will be put into your hand by my personal and particular friend, Mr. Everett. Twenty years ago Mr. Everett was in England, and made the acquaintance of Lord Byron, Sir Walter Scott, Lord Stowell, and others who have since joined the great congregation of the dead. He missed you, and he has therefore a great pleasure to come.

‘Mr. Everett is a scholar, if we may be thought to have reared one in America. For some years past he has been engaged in political life as a member of Congress and Governor of Massachusetts. He now goes abroad with the intention of passing some years in France and Italy. His family is with him, but he has
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informed me that he thinks of leaving them in Paris, and of making a short visit to London, before he goes into winter quarters on the Continent. As he is my fast friend, I commend him to you, my dear Mr. Rogers, as a sort of alter ego; but he is a much more learned, a more wise, and a better ego than he who writes this. Have the kindness to make him known at Holland House and also to Miss Rogers.

‘A thousand blessings attend you, my dear Sir. And many happy years yet be yours.

‘Daniel Webster.’