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AN INSCRIPTION BY TENNYSON IN HEBREW: being to his teacher the Rev William Parsons Warburton, and reading 'His friend in many days'. Tennyson had been receiving lessons from Warburton from 1868 with a view to making a new translation, possibly metrical, of the Book of Job (see Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son, 1897, ii, pp. 50-53).This did not come to pass, but he was an assiduous student of the language, which gave him much pleasure. Harold, Tennyson's second play, was published in December 1876.