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Lot 248

WARREN (JOHN LEICESTER, Baron de Tabley)
Article on Alfred Tennyson

23 May 2012, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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Footnotes

Includes a Scribner envelope marked "TJW[ise] RIP" which includes a corrected proof of Carter's obituary in The Spectator, a letter from Cockerell commenting "most beautifully done", pencil draft of a letter to the TLS (not in fact sent) objecting to their coverage of the potential sale of the Ashley library, and Scribner cables about it.

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