Within these splendid walls Crabbe first made the acquaintance of Rogers, which soon ripened into an intimacy not without effect, I think, upon the remaining efforts of Crabbe as a poet.

One immediate result was that Crabbe yielded to Rogers's strong advice to him to visit London, and take his place among the literary society of the day.

This visit was paid in the summer of 1817, when Crabbe stayed in London from the middle of June to the end of July.
Crabbe's son rightly included in his _Memoir_ several extracts from his father's Diary kept during this visit.

They are little more than briefest entries of engagements, but serve to show the new and brilliant life to which the poet was suddenly introduced.

He constantly dined and breakfasted with Rogers, where he met and was welcomed by Rogers's friends.