A group of letters and manuscripts relating to Tennyson, including:
1. EDWARD VII, KING OF ENGLAND. Autograph Letter Signed ("Albert Edward"), 2 pp recto and verso, 8vo (conjoined blank), Osborne, February 2, 1892, to Tennyson, on Osborne mourning stationery, warmly thanking him for the autograph poem sent by Tennyson on the occasion of the death of his son, with transmittal envelope. In part, "what has greatly enhanced its value in our eyes is that you have sent a copy of it to the Princess & myself written in your own hand. You may be assured that we shall always greatly prize it & that the verses emanating from so distinguished a pen will ever remain a solace to us in our grief..."
2. THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE. Autograph Letter Signed ("W M Thackeray"), 1 p, 8vo, written on the blank page of a letter from Bayard Taylor to Thackeray, London, May 29, [1857], to Tennyson. Thackeray asks Tennyson to extend a welcome to the young poet, Bayard Taylor whom he calls a "devotee of A.T."
3. MEREDITH, GEORGE. Autograph Letter Signed ("George Meredith"), 2 pp recto and verso, 8vo (conjoined blank), Southend, Essex, June 24, 1851. The young Meredith expresses his "pride and pleasure" in Tennyson's approval of his Poems published earlier that year.
4. TENNYSON, ALFRED. Autograph Quotation Signed ("A Tennyson"), Farringford, Isle of Wight, March 7, 1883. In full: "One far-off divine Event / To which the whole Creation moves."
5. TENNYSON, ALFRED. Autograph Letter Signed ("A Tennyson"), 1 p, 8vo, Blackdown, September 1, 1869, subscribing to a magazine.
6. TENNYSON, ALFRED. Autograph Manuscript, n.p., n.d., being SIX LINES FROM IDYLLS OF THE KING, beginning "Thereafter—as he speaks, who tells the tale— / When Arthur reach'd a field a battle, bright / with pitch'd pavilions of his foe...."