Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries
Samuel Rogers to Sarah Rogers, 10 October 1841
‘My dear Sarah,—What will you say when you hear that I have been
over-persuaded by Maltby to cross the
water. Indeed, the report was so strong that we were going, that we could not
help ourselves. Last Thursday I left Broadstairs for Canterbury, M. having gone
to receive permission from Mr. Travers,
and returned from London yesterday. I breakfasted and drank tea with Q[uillinan] and Dora twice. She seems as happy as she can be. To-day we came
here, and to-morrow embark. To-night we enjoy a coal fire for the last time.
To-night the sea is smooth as glass, but to-morrow it may be mountain high.
Lady Essex, &c., &c., were
detained here some days. I hope you mean, if you can, to see our dear friends
at Stourbridge.
‘Yours ever,
‘S. R.’
William Maltby (1764-1854)
A schoolmate and life-long friend of Samuel Rogers; he was a London solicitor and a
member of the King of Clubs. In 1809 he succeeded Richard Porson as principal librarian of
the London Institution.
Dora Quillinan [née Wordsworth] (1804-1847)
The daughter of William Wordsworth who in 1841 married the poet Edward Quillinan despite
her father's concerns about his debts.
Edward Quillinan (1791-1851)
A poet of Irish Catholic descent who pursued a military career while issuing several
volumes published by his father-in-law Edgerton Brydges; after the death of his first wife
Jemima he married Dora Wordsworth in 1841.
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.
Benjamin Travers (1783-1858)
Surgeon at Guy's Hospital and London Eye Infirmary; he was FRS (1813) and surgeon to
Queen Victoria. His first wife was Sarah Morgan, daughter of the actuary (and friend of
Samuel Rogers) William Morgan.
