Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1896 — Borrowed Coat of Honor. [ARTICLE]

Borrowed Coat of Honor.

When Wordsworth was made poet laureate he had to borrow Samuel Rogers’ dress coat to go to court In, and, strangely enough, when laureate honors fell on Tennyson, he, too, borrowed Rogers’ coat for the same purpose.