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Lot 177

TENNYSON (ALFRED, Lord)

22 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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TENNYSON (ALFRED, Lord)

Group of letters, comprising an autograph letter signed to A.P. Stanley, thanking him for "so interesting a memorial of your journey" which he hopes will enable him to sustain his loss; with a letter signed, the text in the hand of his wife Emily, thanking his publishers, Routledge, for a royalty payment of £57-12s ("...As far as I am concerned I am perfectly willing that you should have another Edition..."); three autograph letters by Emily, one sending an example of Tennyson's signature (present), another thanking Routledge for his gift of books and promising that Tennyson will write himself when less busy, the third to the anthologist Joseph Payne, regretting that Tennyson cannot let him print his poem "the copyright of Mr Tennyson's poems being in the hands of Messrs Strahan"; and a letter by Hallam Tennyson, 6 pages, 8vo, Farringford, 1862-1873

Footnotes

Dean Stanley had accompanied the Prince of Wales on a tour of the Middle East, which was to bear fruit in his Sermons in the East: 'it was not without tension, for the prince preferred shooting to the inspection of ancient sites and monuments'. During the course of the tour, Stanley's mother died and met his future wife, Lady Augusta Bruce, to whom he was 'married quietly' at Westminster Abbey on his return (P. C. Hammond, ODNB).

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