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Notes
We are indebted to Lord Tennyson and the Tennyson Trustees for permission to print copyright material; and to the staff of the Tennyson Research Centre, Central Library, Lincoln, for access to the collections. We also acknowledge research support from the University of Hull (Day) and the Research and Productive Scholarship Committee, University of South Carolina (Scott).
Nancie Campbell, comp., Tennyson in Lincoln: A Catalogue of the Collections in the Research Centre 2 vols. (Lincoln, 1971-73), II, item 4132.
Cf. Hallam, Lord Tennyson, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, A Memoir by his Son, 2 vols. (1897), II, 383, for Tennyson's letter thanking Craik and expressing his "abhorrence of the sale of proof-sheets."
The text of Maud in the first edition of Maud, and Other Poems differs only very slightly from the text of the poem in this Lincoln proof-copy (there are nine minor changes in punctuation and, in I xv, "I" became "I" in five places). In its inclusion of the shorter poems, and in respect of the text of Maud itself, this Lincoln proof-copy differs from, and must be later than, the "early proofs of Maud" described by T. J. Wise and referred to by him as constituting a "'pre-natal' edition of Maud" which contained the text of Maud only, without the seven additional poems of the first edition; A Bibliography of the Writings of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 2 vols. (1908), I, 126-131, and II, 151. Wise, however, had never seen a copy of the "early proofs" which he describes, and the relationship between this "'pre-natal' edition" and the Lincoln proof-copy will be clarified in Susan Shatto's edition of Maud (forthcoming, Clarendon Press).
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