Hollande

Samuel Rogers 'The Banker Poet' member of Holland House circle and acquaintance of Byron Wordsworth Sir Walter Scott.

25615 — No place or date on paper with 1837 Whatman watermark. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. The recipient is not named but the item is from the papers of the author Lady Theresa Lewis 1803-1865 successively wife of the novelist Thomas Henry Lister 1800-1842 and the Liberal politician Sir George Cornewall Lewis 1806-1863 all with entries in the Oxford DNB. 1p 12mo. In good condition lightly aged and folded for postage. Reads: ‘Many many thanks for thinking of me! When I came to myself in the morning I remembered something of a kind proposition you had made to me & resolved to call & learn more about it. / Monday the 9th. shall last word underlined suit me & I will not fail to come at 7 o Clock if you don’t write to prevent me. I was going out of town but will stay for so good a purpose. / Yours ever / S. Rogers.’ See Image. No place or date [on paper with 1837 Whatman watermark]. unknown